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NOT MY CIRCUS, NOT MY MONKEY

On hearing about the new virus with the absurd name of “monkeypox” my immediate thought process was actually to just shut down and stop the flow of information around it entering my consciousness. To me the thought of having to deal once again with an outbreak was just one step too far.

For a couple of months, I managed to do just that, out of sight and out of mind it really didn’t penetrate. However, with the abundance of social media and news sources that do manage to penetrate I began to take

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