What a couple of years we’ve been through with the Covid viruses. In my day jobs of anaesthesiologist and surgical director it’s been all consuming. With the original virus in 2020, before vaccination there was a real personal mortality risk to consider when going to work, but as it turned out, working in hospitals wearing PPE and other infection protection measures was probably one of the safest places to be. Most health care workers caught the virus at home or elsewhere. The fascinating human part of it was the small group of health workers who rejected vaccination and even debated the existence of the virus. Of course across a range of people there will always be conspiracy theorists, and the world is rife with conspiracies, but a virus that can be seen under the electron microscope, that can be sequenced genetically and is a relation of other coronaviruses such the common cold isn’t a conspiracy. I had this title – 'come back to real' – lying around unused and thought it would work with a lyric about an imaginary couple with different views on the topic . . .

Come Back to Real

You’re the one who found revision History’s just a false depiction you say The government’s trolling all our messages But it seems to me – not reality.

Hey, I know the world ain’t perfect But you could make your life much more easy yeah Don’t buy virus is fiction claims Cause I’ve been to see and I know what’s real

Come back to real Come back to real and free your mind - free your mind Come back to real Come back to real and love re-find - love re-find Come back to real – Come back to real – mmm mmm yeah

I get up in morning n seek out the sunshine But you meet agents with a war to fight Cause RNA gonna claim your body What a shame you’re lost to conspiracy

You’re a hell of lady and I’m always wanting you If only you could reason like the majority There’s a warm breeze off the ocean - come and cruise with me Flick the switch – and come to real