First hour News Review: Statue of black woman put in place of Colston in Bristol, of Black Lives Matter protester, by vile twisted artist Mark Quinn - A cynical publicity stunt - Ex-partner of Bristol slaver statue artist Marc Quinn says he's an 'oppressor' whose 'medium is exploitation' He was painted a right-on hero this week for creating a statue of the Black Lives Matter protester, Jen Reid. But has provocative artist Marc Quinn, who once made a bronze statue of supermodel Kate Moss in a compromising yoga position, been hoist by his own petard? For I can reveal his latest work, A Surge Of Power, which was secretly erected on the Bristol plinth where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston used to stand, has also served to disgruntle a former lover. In an astonishing disclosure, Jenny Bastet claims that he ‘exploited’ her throughout their two-year relationship, during which time she was also his muse. ‘Speaking from personal experience. Marc Quinn’s medium is exploitation,’ says Jenny, whose body inspired his 2017 exhibition, Untrimmed, in London. ‘My body was objectified by Marc. He is an oppressor.’ The 31-year-old, pictured with the sculptor, was in a relationship with Marc — one of the trailblazing Young British Artists alongside Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst — for three years, overlapping with the end of his marriage to author Lady Georgia Byng, daughter of the Earl of Strafford...
Four months missed education for nothing? School shutdowns have been a complete waste of time - Tests in France and Germany show Coronavirus doesn’t spread through schools - German study finds no evidence coronavirus spreads in schools - Schools do not play a major role in spreading the coronavirus, according to the results of a German study released on Monday. The study, the largest carried out on schoolchildren and teachers in Germany, found traces of the virus in fewer than 1 per cent of teachers and children. Scientists from Dresden Technical University said they believe children may act as a “brake” on chains of infection. Prof Reinhard Berner, the head of pediatric medicine at Dresden University Hospital and leader of the study, said the results suggested the virus does not spread easily in schools. “It is rather the opposite,” Prof Berner told a press conference. “Children act more as a brake on infection.
- School Children Don’t Spread Coronavirus, French Study Shows - School kids don’t appear to transmit the new coronavirus to peers or teachers, a French study found, weighing in on the crucial topic of children’s role in propagating Covid-19. Scientists at Institut Pasteur studied 1,340 people in Crepy-en-Valois, a town northeast of Paris that suffered an outbreak in February and March, including 510 students from six primary schools.
The researchers found that 61% of the parents of infected kids had the coronavirus, compared with about 7% of parents of healthy ones, suggesting it was the parents who had infected their offspring rather than the other way around....
Are masks a good idea? Ken Marsh, Met Police Federation Chair, on how the police can’t enforce mandatory mask wearing. Vernon Coleman, author of ‘How to Stop Your Doctor from Killing You’, on what happened to ‘First Do No Harm’ - how old people are damaged by pharmaceuticals, and now by lockdown.
Graph of cases of Covid 19 in UK Status of COVID-19 - Covid-19 hospital deaths in England by date of death, with 3-day moving average trendline (the thicker line). (Note that numbers in grey area may increase over the next few days.) NHS England data - As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK. The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase. The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID....
Del Bigtree, director of ‘Vaxxed’, on how testing and regulation of the many vaccines given to children, is non-existent. ‘60 Minutes’ programme from 1976 – vaccine for swine flu damages people. Spanish flu pandemic.
