Notices can spread Covid, according to the Church
Notices can spread Covid, according to the Church Sheinton, Shropshire April 2022 I was out walking between Shrewsbury and Ironbridge last week. It’s pleasant countryside, and a few miles in the fresh air and walking boots are good for the soul. So, also, are village churches, but I was unprepared for what confronted me on the noticeboard outside one in Sheinton, a couple of miles east of Cressage Bridge: It's a shame that the church in Berrington, a few miles away, is to close, but that’s not the message I first got from the notice. The heading, in bold, reads ‘ Please do not touch this Notice (to avoid possible spread of Covid -19) . The notice was dated 3rd March 2022. *** We’ve known since early 2021 that Covid isn’t spread through contact - there is an article on this topic in Nature ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4 ) dated 29 January 2021. ‘Are the CoE so out of touch they don’t know this’, I wondered, ‘or do they somehow feel it is their dut...