Sad story in the news today. Earlier in this pandemic Sri Lanka's health minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi (unbelievably) endorsed a "herbal remedy" cooked up by some shamen who obtained the recipe from a dream. Apparently the "syrup" prevents Covid and also cures it, the miracle potion contains honey and nutmeg (and eye of newt no doubt) and significant money has been changing hands as gullible people clamber to get hold of the magic elixir. Predictably the minister has now contracted Covid-19 and is isolating. When will people ever learn, there's no such thing as "magic" and viruses don't give a rat's arse about ancient wisdom, culture, status, visions, gods, spirits or the ghosts of our ancestors, they're gonna get into our cells if we let them and do their thing, it's just chemistry!
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