Production Engineering Solutions 15 February 2021

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Editor’s comment for February 2021

Christmas seems a distant memory now, but I don’t think any of us will be sorry to see the back of 2020.

I ended the year with a rather unwelcome dose of COVID-19. Despite masking up just about every time I left the house, smothering my mitts in copious amounts of hand sanitiser probably excessively, and growling at anyone who came within my two metre safety zone, I still managed to cop it.

So Christmas morning took on a somewhat different format. I rolled up at a local COVID test centre at 9am along with 30+ other people and got a positive result via text later that evening as I tucked into my third helping of Christmas cake. That was my destiny sealed for 10 days. Time at least to read the Viz Annual Santa left me…

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