Monthly Archives: April 2020

I’m Slowing Up

Posted on April 28, 2020 by the archivist

One day in January I found myself gasping for breath to breathe. Three months later I’m still finding myself puffing and blowing after more or less any effort to do anything physical. Things that took me one minute to do … Continue reading →

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Nicotine Coronavirus goes viral?

Posted on April 26, 2020 by the archivist

Is The World About To Panic Hoard Nicotine Products After France’s Promising Coronavirus Study? Nicotine Coronavirus search trends; search trend “nicotine coronavirus” has erupted across the US in the last several days.

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Open The Pubs, But Only To Smokers

Posted on April 25, 2020 by the archivist

Chris Snowdon on Spiked: Far be it from me to preempt the conclusions of the professor’s research, but let us consider for a moment the policy implications of nicotine being the only tried and tested prophylactic for Covid-19. We could … Continue reading →

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Smoking In Isolation

Posted on April 23, 2020 by the archivist

Simon Clark has asked me to draw attention to Smoking At Home. Photographer Dan Donovan is inviting smokers to send photos that can be posted on the site. He writes: As a child, a teenager and a young man in … Continue reading →

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Greens Love Covid-19

Posted on April 22, 2020 by the archivist

Breitbart: ‘It’s shown us what a future with less pollution and more active wildlife could be like.’ Expect to hear a lot more of this environmental propaganda in the coming weeks and months: green activists and their celebrity useful idiots … Continue reading →

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Borisov’s Carbon Monoxide Cloud

Posted on April 21, 2020 by the archivist

Back in March I was wondering if Coronavirus Came From Outer Space? Here’s a new variation: Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) which reached perihelion on 8 December 2019. What was interesting about Borisov? Colder than anything known to man: Interstellar comet … Continue reading →

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Led by “The Science”

Posted on April 20, 2020 by the archivist

Something Joe L wrote a few days ago: This “virus” has been in the media now for over three months, and we still don’t know anything about it. It seems like every time new information is released, it contradicts previously … Continue reading →

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Together At Home

Posted on April 19, 2020 by the archivist

Together At Home has been running over the weekend, featuring rock stars singing online from their own homes. In the Rolling Stones’ submission, Charlie Watts seems to be playing on assorted pots and pans. Perhaps this is the future? The … Continue reading →

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Smokers Didn’t Reply Honestly

Posted on April 18, 2020 by the archivist

In a private email: “I still find the apparent paucity of smokers hospitalised with Covid-19 interesting, but it is quite possible that many smokers didn’t reply honestly when asked if they smoked.” That may be the simplest answer. Reviled, excluded, … Continue reading →

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Mail: Does smoking PROTECT against coronavirus?

Posted on April 16, 2020 by the archivist

Yet another big report on smoking being protective against Covid-19. Excerpts from Mail Online: …data from multiple Chinese studies shows that COVID-19 hospital patients contained a smaller proportion of smokers than the general population (6.5 per cent compared to 26.6 … Continue reading →

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