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Coronavirus – the first thousand days

14th October 2022 Going Postal 2695 Comments

The earliest stats on the coronavirus that I can find  – numbers of cases and deaths – were recorded by John Hopkins university on 19th January 2020, with 204 cases and 3 deaths.  There are [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 9

30th June 2022 Rookwood 3500 Comments

It has been quite a while since I visited this topic, and looking back on my prior eight musings has given me the inspiration to rehabilitate the topic as it hasn’t really gone away. While [more…]

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Mask Mongs

26th January 2022 Going Postal 4210 Comments

Masks, masks, everywhere and all the hubs did shrink. Everywhere I go there are masked goons, in cars alone, on pavements alone, wearing them in all sorts of places where they are not required by [more…]

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Mass (Mis)(In)Formation Psychosis

25th January 2022 Lugosi 4811 Comments

Immodium is MFP. MFP has come to consciousness out of Covid and the idea that the “Masses” are willing to sacrifice freedoms to get the cure and undertake behaviours to save their lives. MFP existed [more…]

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Europeans obviously value freedom more than us!

31st July 2021 Fred Brownbill 2081 Comments

‘There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.’ ~ Leo Tolstoy ~ Once again Europeans in many major cities came out in the tens of thousands this past weekend, as also [more…]

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Indy Pedant Geeks And The Temple Of Our Ennaychess

20th September 2020 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 2165 Comments

A veritable curse has been placed upon the glorious and gracious Ms Geeks, a tribulation to the right leg that only a blessing and a prayer from Our Sacred Ones in Our Ennaychess can cure.  [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 8

16th September 2020 Rookwood 4038 Comments

Jkvenjd wktuhnb, dfuidsoe refcvdsff hbcer uyereu dfohfd iuhjcdjfsj. No, the previous sentence is not a misprint, it is a condensed and eloquent summary of government practice regarding the current SARS-CoV-2 crisis, quite possibly in Welsh. [more…]

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What have they done?

27th August 2020 Rookwood 4068 Comments

I generally hate supermarkets. Memories of being dragged by my neurotic mother, quite probably screaming, around the shops as a dysfunctional, short-sighted and asthmatic child probably doesn’t help much. While most people focus on the [more…]

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