Reading Time: 2 minutes As chemicals, probably about a dollar. As part of the universe, about as close to zero as one can get. As another human in a human society, whatever that person makes of himself or herself, whatever value humankind assigns, and whatever chance permits. Any value judgment is inherently subjective, meaning that the value of something […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes So, I was one of the lucky people to travel overseas during the pandemic (for unfortunate reasons), from one country with the most hardest/severe lockdown (not only with the rest of the world but within across the States), to another country which is hypersensitive to a cold, let alone a pandemic. Over a period of
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Seriously, what are these tennis players whingeing about?! If you read Part 1, you would know about my recent trip to India. Doesn’t look that bad, does it? So, how was the return back to a country with one of the most tightly guarded borders (following the pandemic)? Chaos prevails After a couple of weeks,
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Theodore Roosevelt once said, “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created a moral crisis for policy-makers struggling to choose between “lives” and “livelihoods”, “mortality or poverty” i.e. between mitigating the public health fallout and averting an economic depression. This article is
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Note: the below piece is based on a 60-minute research of publically available information and is not my personal opinion regarding the importance or impact of any one particular pandemic. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 is thought to have infected 500 million people globally, or about 27% of the world’s population. The death toll
Worst Pandemics in History – Where does COVID-19 rank at present? Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Paraphrasing Ernest Hemingway, unfolding developments move slower until they happen suddenly. Today, the coronavirus outbreak may lead to a tipping point at which gross domestic product and its supporting metrics are supplemented by alternatives more conducive towards a sustainability transition. Disruptions related to COVID-19 are predicted to become more severe in coming weeks. They could
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