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Cosmic Curry
It was extremely tempting to head this piece as ‘Covid Conquering Curry’ but good sense got the better of me. I will however direct you to a paper by Dr Philip C Calder from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton which was published in the British Medical Journal in April. One takeaway I did get (no pun intended) from the article was that certain vitamins and trace elements have been found to be beneficial in supporting the immune system, not just through Covid-19, but in other coronaviruses and respiratory infections. Even if the risk of coronavirus is lower where you live, flu and the common cold haven’t gone away. Which leads me to a curry I created one night after attending a conference on cosmic communication…
Lockdown revisted
One morning in late February 2001 I half listened to Farming Today as I started to wake. Normally the programme was full of chatter, soundbites from auctions and talk of politics and money. That morning it was silent apart from the sound of a man crying, broken occasionally by his voice talking about the need to dismiss staff, the loss of his investments, fears for the future, and above all, the welfare of his animals. It was the first outbreak of Foot and Mouth since 1967, and was an event that was as devasting to farmers, animals and businesses as COVID-19 is today.