Thousands of people are reporting coming down with bad colds following the relaxing of lockdown measures, UK Health Secretary data shows.
Why do we get a ‘common cold’ season and typically when does it occur in the UK?
Every winter we have the ‘cold and flu’ season when cases of respiratory virus infections increase. These winter respiratory viruses include the flu virus, which can cause severe infections, and rhinoviruses, which causes more mild ‘colds’, though there are many other respiratory viruses that spread in the winter.
In the UK the cold and flu season is typically between October and March and coincides with the onset of winter weather. It is thought that there are three main reasons for this seasonal increase in respiratory virus infections.First, many viruses transmitted in the air by aerosols and respiratory droplets survive and spread better in cold, dry weather. Second, our behaviour tends to change in the winter, with people spending more time with others indoors where respiratory viruses transmit better. Finally, for many people, our immune systems do not perform as well in the winter, due to lower levels of vitamin D and melatonin.
How have COVID restrictions affected the cold season?
The 2020-2021 winter cold and flu season was unique in seeing some of the lowest rates of respiratory virus infections in recent history. It’s thought that this dramatic reduction was due to the COVID-19 precautions that we were taking over the last winter. COVID-19, just like flu and many winter cold viruses, spreads through the air.
Because of this, the measures that are so effective at reducing COVID-19 transmission, e.g. face masks, indoor ventilation, physical distancing and hand hygiene, will also be effective at reducing the transmission of many other respiratory viruses and their use is why we had such a mild cold and flu season last year.
What is a ‘super cold’?
The question many of us are asking now, is what to expect for the coming winter given that the use of COVID-19 preventative measures have largely been repealed in the UK. It has been suggested that we might see a ‘super’ cold and flu season. It is possible that we will see a robust cold and flu season this winter where we have widespread transmission of ‘typical’ strains of cold and flu viruses.
In this situation, the infections would not necessarily be any more severe than in a typical winter – though a flu infection can still be very severe. This could occur because our collective immunity to typical cold and flu viruses may have waned over the past year and so more people may be susceptible to infection with these viruses.
We are already seeing indications of increased respiratory virus infections in children, specifically the dangerous respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Over the past summer we saw high levels of RSV infections in areas where COVID-19 precautions were relaxing. It is very possible the level of RSV and other respiratory viruses will continue to increase over the coming winter in areas without mitigation measures in place.
Mandatory jabs not expected until spring, despite Christmas lockdown fears and concerns over faltering boosters programme ByLaura Donnelly, HEALTH EDITOR ;Lizzie Roberts, HEALTH REPORTER and Ben Riley-Smith, POLITICAL EDITOR
NHS workers will not be forced to have a Covid jab this winter under plans being considered by ministers, despite warnings that rising cases could see the public put under greater restrictions.
Compulsory vaccinations for NHS staff are expected to be announced next week, but The Telegraph understands that, under the proposals, the rules will not be enforced until March 31.
“A statement from China’s government urging local authorities to ensure there was adequate food supply during the winter and encouraging people to stock up on some essentials prompted concerned talk online, with people linking it with the widening coronavirus outbreak, a forecast cold snap, or even rising tensions with Taiwan,” reports Bloomberg.
“The Ministry of Commerce urged local authorities to stabilize prices and ensure supplies of daily necessities including vegetables this winter and next spring, according to a statement Monday evening. Chinese households were also encouraged to stock up on a certain amount of daily necessities in preparation for the winter months or emergencies.”
China’s urging for families to hoard food was prompted by massive problems with the global supply chain as a result of COVID in addition to extreme volatility in energy markets.
A Call For An Uprising – WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES 2018 OPENING ILLUMINATI CEREMONY EXPOSED
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4. People from poor countries will stream to Europe. {Note by Minos: In 1968 there was no such thing as immigration.} They will also come to Scandinavia – and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them and become hard with them. They will be treated like the Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of our sins will have been reached. {Note by Minos: I protested at the issue of immigration. I did not understand it at the time.}
She then continued to share the vision and said that it will be a very short war. All that I have seen of war before is only child’s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with nuclear atomic bombs. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one’s breath. It will cover several continents; America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be contaminated. The soil in these places can no longer be used for growing food. The result will be that only small areas will remain that can be used to grow food. The remnant who survived in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them, and will refuse to accept the people seeking refuge.
I am so glad that I will not live to see it, but when the time draws near, you (Emanuel Minos) must take courage and travel all around and tell this vision that I have seen to people.
I have received it from God and nothing of it goes against what the Bible tells.
The one who has his sin forgiven and has Jesus as Savior and Lord, is safe.
Now you, the reader might think that this has happened before and it could be just a cycle of war and peace as it was in the past. But you have to think that now we have nuclear weapons and the ability to destroy all the continents.
Should you be worried?
This just happened yesterday and it was underreported:
Multi-Billionaire Hugo Salinas Price – ‘I Have Serious Doubts About The Survival Of Our Civilization’
These People Are “Barbarians”
Hugo Salinas Price: “With regards to the social question in the world, in 1929 a Spanish thinker by the name of Ortega y Gasset wrote a book that really shook up the world titled, ‘The Revolt of the Masses.’ He was talking about the appearance on the world stage of new individuals.
He was writing about the growth of the population and the appearance of new individuals coming in to the mass of humanity. And these individuals evidently are (what he described as) ‘barbarians.’….
“They came too suddenly to be educated, and for the knowledge of how to keep the Western way of life alive. These (barbarian) people have increased (in numbers), and now they have taken over power (in the world).”
We Are Now In The Hands Of These Barbarians
So now we are in the hands of ‘barbarians.’ They have no idea of how our society came to be, and what is necessary to keep it going. They are fiddling with the controls: You might think of a monkey flying a 747 (airplane) — they don’t have any idea what they are doing. And this is not going to end well with the barbarians at the controls…
What The Hell Just Happened In Russia: Powerstation Explosion In Naval Base Region – Helicopters Landing On Moscow Streets – Dead Man Found At Russian Consulate in New York
Mac Slavo
November 8th, 2016
Something serious appears to be happening in Russia, as well as at the Russian Consulate in New York.
Speculation abounds as multiple events taking place in the last few hours indicate that either a very coincidental set of circumstances just happened, or an attack has been initiated against Putin’s government.
Here’s what we know right now.
On the heels of a previously announced pre-positioning of cyber warfare assets last week and some 300,000 NATO troops preparing for battle in Europe, we learn this morning from RT that a massive blast at an electrical substation in Murmansk, Russia has left part of the region without power.
What makes this outage particularly interesting is that Murmanks is the main administrative base for the entire Northern Russian Fleet.
It’s a boy! A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people, New Scientist can reveal. “This is great news and a huge deal,” says Dusko Ilic at King’s College London, who wasn’t involved in the work. “It’s revolutionary.”
The controversial technique, which allows parents with rare genetic mutations to have healthy babies, has only been legally approved in the UK. But the birth of the child, whose Jordanian parents were treated by a US-based team in Mexico, should fast-forward progress around the world, say embryologists.
Haven’t “three parent” babies been born before?
Yes, although using a different technique. Back in the 1990s, Jacques Cohen and his colleagues at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas in New Jersey were the first to inject fluid from healthy eggs – including their mitochondria – into eggs from women who had been through several rounds of failed IVF. The hope was that the donated mitochondria would boost the flagging eggs.
The team tried their technique 30 times in 27 people, and 17 babies were born. But two fetuses developed a genetic disorder, in which they lacked an X chromosome. One of these pregnancies resulted in a miscarriage, the other was aborted. This led to safety concerns. In 2001, the US Food and Drug Administration wrote to fertility clinics in the US, asking them to stop using the method, and to instead apply for approval from the FDA itself in all cases. The method, called ooplasmic transfer, fell out of favour at that point.
Might this child, or others like this one, be used as a prototype for the antichrist?
Start by reading The Bible and do what it is written there in order for your soul to be saved. God doesn’t want for any of us to be sent to Hell that is why He gave us a chance through Jesus’s own blood. Don’t let His sacrifice be in vain.
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