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Monkeypox: no need for panic

May 18, 2022June 28, 2022 ~ Jules Bristow ~ 1 Comment

So. Monkeypox. First of all this is not this season's covid, there is no need to panic (thank you irresponsible Daily Mail headlines). At the time of writing there have been seven confirmed cases in the UK, as well as several cases in Lisbon and Madrid. It seems that the original case was brought to … Continue reading Monkeypox: no need for panic

We all wear masks

July 2, 2020June 28, 2022 ~ Jules Bristow ~ Leave a comment

As the British government continues to fumble its way through its response to the covid-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if our leaders cannot provide guidance on how to protect ourselves and one another we will have to make our own judgements. We absolutely should not be in this position, with the government … Continue reading We all wear masks

“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us… …whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” – Charles Darwin

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