Quote:Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, His Wife and Daughters, 4 and 2, Test Positive for COVID-19

[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"I wish it was only me who tested positive, but it wasn't, it was my entire family," the star said in an Instagram video Wednesday
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)]September 02, 2020 08:06 PM[/color][/color]

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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)]Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson[/color]
 
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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]Dwayne Johnson and his family have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the star revealed on Instagram Wednesday.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]The actor, 48, shared that he and his wife, Lauren Hashian, and their daughters Jasmine, 4, and Tiana, 2, all have been sick with the virus, with the actor and his wife being particularly unwell. They are, thankfully, now feeling better, he told fans.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"I wanted to give you guys a little helpful update on things that have been going on on my end for the past two-and-a-half to three weeks now. So the update is this: my wife Lauren as well as my two baby girls and myself, we have all tested positive for COVID-19," Johnson began his video message, shared on Instagram.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"I could tell you that this has been one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family, and for me, too, personally as well," the Jumanji star continued. "And I've gone through some doozies in the past."[/color][/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"Testing positive for COVID-19 is much different than overcoming nasty injuries, or being evicted, or even being broke, which I have been more than a few times," Johnson said, adding that the reason contracting the virus is so different "is because my No.1 priority is to always protect my family. And protect my children, my loved ones."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]Johnson said that he and his family contracted the contagious respiratory virus from family friends, who he said are "devastated" that they unwittingly spread the virus.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"I wish it was only me who tested positive, but it wasn't, it was my entire family, so this one was a real kick in the gut. But I am happy to tell you guys that we as a family are good. We're on the other end of it, we're on the other side. We're no longer contagious, and we are — thank God — we are healthy."[/color][/color] Shepherd Looks Back on What She Learned from The View
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]Johnson said that while his daughters "bounced back" from the virus pretty quickly, he and Lauren "had a rough go at it."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"We are counting our blessings right now because we're well aware that it isn't always the case that you get on the other end of COVID-19 stronger and healthier. I have had some of my best friends have lost their parents, their loved ones, to this virus that is so incredibly relentless and unforgiving, and it is insidious," he said.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"So for our babies, Jazzy and Tia, they had a little sore throat the first couple of days, but other than that, they bounced back and, and it's been life as normal, happy babies running around and playing."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]While it remains unclear on the specific ways COVID-19 impacts children differently than adults, there have been fewer reported cases in children than adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization rates are also lower in children, according to the CDC.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]The Ballers star urged his fans to exercise extreme caution when interacting with others to prevent the spread of COVID-19.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"If you guys are having family and friends over to your house, you know them, you trust them. They can be quarantining just like you guys. You still never know. You never know," he said, suggesting to have visitors "tested the day before."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"Don't let your guard down, boosts your immunity with antioxidants, vitamins, things of that nature," he added.[/color][/color]

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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)]Dwyane Johnson with his daughters[/color]
 
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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"The other thing is wear your mask, we have been in quarantine for months, we wear our masks every day," Johnson said. "This baffles me that some people out there, including some politicians, will take this idea of wearing mask and make it a political agenda of a political agenda, politicizing. It has nothing to do in politics."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"Wear your mask. It is a fact, and it is the right thing to do. And it's the responsible thing to do," he continued, adding that people like his mother with pre-existing conditions are protected by the face coverings.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]The Rock also pointed out that many people are refusing to wear masks citing lung issues but his mom, Ata Johnson, wears a mask without issue despite having a severely diminished lung capacity after surviving stage III lung cancer.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"She has COPD too as well, that never goes away, but she wears a mask every day because it's the best thing for her health and her safety," the star added.[/color][/color]

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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)]Dwayne Johnson and Lauren Hashian with daughters[/color]
 
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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"So wear your masks. I'm not a politician. I am a man though, who cares about my family deeply and will do everything I can to protect them. But I'm also a man who cares about all of you guys. I don't care what political party you're affiliated with. I don't care what part of the world you're from. I don't care what your skin color is, what your job is, what your bank account says. I don't care. I do care about all of them. And I do not want you or your entire family to get COVID-19."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]"Use me as your example," Johnson concluded his lengthy video. "Remember these takeaways that I shared with you and stay healthy, my friends, and I'll see you down the road."[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]Johnson and Hashian celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary in August. The pair first met in 2006, and began dating in 2007. Johnson is also father to 19-year-old daughter Simone from a previous marriage.[/color]
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Quote:Culled mink rise from the dead to Denmark's horror
Carcasses rose to surface at improvised mass grave owing to gases from decomposition


In early November the Danish government announced a cull after a mutated version of the novel coronavirus was discovered in mink. Photograph: Ole Jensen/Getty Images

Jon Henley
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Dead mink are rising from their graves in Denmark after a [url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/04/denmark-announces-cull-of-15-million-mink-over-covid-mutation-fears]rushed cull over fears of a coronavirus mutation led to thousands being slaughtered and buried in shallow pits – from which some are now emerging.
“As the bodies decay, gases can be formed,” Thomas Kristensen, a national police spokesman, told the state broadcaster DR. “This causes the whole thing to expand a little. In this way, in the worst cases, the mink get pushed out of the ground.”

Police in West Jutland, where several thousand mink were buried in a mass grave on a military training field, have tried to counter the macabre phenomenon by shovelling extra soil on top of the corpses, which are in a 1 metre-deep trench.
“This is a natural process,” Kristensen said. “Unfortunately, one metre of soil is not just one metre of soil –it depends on what type of soil it is. The problem is that the sandy soil in West Jutland is too light. So we have had to lay more soil on top.”
Adding to the popular concern, local media reported that the animals may also have been buried too close to lakes and underground water reserves, prompting fears of possible contamination of ground and drinking water supplies.

An aerial view shows thousands of killed mink being buried in a field outside the western town of Holstebro. Photograph: Morten Stricker/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images
“It seems like no one really knows the consequences of this,” Susan Münster of the Danish water board told Jyllands Posten. “I must confess I find it worrying.” At least two local mayors had demanded the mink be dug up and incinerated, Münster said.
One local politician, Leif Brogger, told the newspaper: “The authorities are playing with our environment, and using it as a dumping ground.”
Photos and videos of the emerging bodies have set social media buzzing in Denmark, with one Twitter user calling 2020 “the year of the zombie mutant killer mink” and another calling on the population to “run … The mink are coming for you.”
The Danish environment ministry said the phenomenon was a “temporary problem tied to the decaying process”, adding that the area would be monitored 24 hours a day until a fence is put up “to avoid potential problems for animals and humans”.
Kristensen said there was only a small risk to humans from the decomposing bodies, which are disinfected and covered with lime before being buried, because the virus was transmitted mainly by live mink exhaling it into the air.
It was possible, however, that “small quantities of bacteria may still be trapped in their fur”, he said, adding that it was “never healthy to get close to dead animals, so therefore this is of course something to stay away from”.
Denmark, the world’s largest exporter of mink fur, announced in early November it would cull the country’s more than 15 million mink after discovering a mutated version of the virus that could have jeopardised the effectiveness of future vaccines.
Two weeks later, and in the midst of a political crisis over the legality of its decree, the government concluded that the threat to human vaccines had “very likely been extinguished” in the absence of any further cases of the mutated version.
The country’s mink farmers have so far culled more than 10 million mink, according to the latest tally.