Although it is very early in the COVID-19 pandemic and it is a long way from being over, the figures from the go-to source, the Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resources…
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Natural selection is the mechanism which was shown to drive evolution by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, and was explained in great detail in Darwin’s book ‘The Origin of…
This is an interesting personal insight from Taiwan from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. To put this in perspective, Taiwan has a population of just under 24 million, only…
Ever since the self-imposed isolation caused by the rampant COVID-19 pandemic, I have been addicted to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus website1. It gives relatively up-to-date statistics for most, if…
Two months on, that anxiety has not gone, although it’s also been joined by a sense of sadness. It’s now clear that so many people have died, and so many more are desperately ill, simply because our politicians refused to listen to and act on advice. Scientists like us said lock down earlier; we said test, trace, isolate. But they decided they knew better.
Yesterday, I saw someone on television stating that out in public, people do not need to wear face masks, something that has been in the media for some time1. This…
I expect that, like most people, I am very concerned about the possibility of contracting the COVID-19 disease from the SARS-Cov-2 virus. The death rate for my age group (60-69)…
Sky News’ (an oxymoron if ever there was one) Chris ‘Fido’* Kenny is a climate change denier that Rupert Murdoch says don’t exist in his media organisations, which are in…
I had a bloke called Sheldon (?) remind me of all the dodgy characters who have created superficially respectable names for their nefarious activities. He was an ‘antivaxxer’ (i.e. an…