The few people comparing Kerala’s response to Nipah outbreak two years back, care to look at the crucial determinants with respect to SARS CoV 2. The first is that Nipah was known zoonosis, with standardised testing and laid down quarantine procedures, including disposal of the dead. Here it is a ‘novel’ situation and the Chinese […]
30 March 2020 I firmly believe that in our Age of Instant Gratification, the loss of the human connect to Nature, the artifice of glitz and glamour that modern technology has surrounded us with, has made us in a way insufficient to deal with the bug unleashed by our own expanding footprint into natural biospheres. […]
29 March 2020 When we think of crusaders, we acknowledge that etymology of its religious context, of how Christendom tried to win Jerusalem from the Arabs, and how myriad Kings, Princes, nobles and the lay were to organise and contribute to the ‘cause’. Since then the word is used for such a disproportionate level of […]
27 March 2020 This comes from a very fast and furious turn of events, an exchange where a colleague went from disbelieving numbers put out by various bodies and from my end for Covid19 in India, to questioning how the Chinese could not have the numbers they have, being the source point of this pandemic […]
26 March 2020 Now let us see the label issue. Chinese sensitivities are offended when we use the appellation of origin to the Coronavirus pandemic by calling it ‘Chinese’. Till recently pandemics have been called likewise even if erroneously like Spanish Flu, London Bubonic Plague. Yet like how World Meteorology allows countries to take turns […]
26 March 2020 A discussion with friends showed how seriously divergent were expert views, Black Swan event as this pandemonium of a pandemic is, that has descended upon us. Exactly two weeks ago, many were smug, chiding me for crying wolf, when the case numbers were less than 100000, which included a disproportionate 80% from […]
25 March 2020 There are times when one has to read out the riot act to people, such times are now, as is being done by Italy’s public officials from Mayors to Ministers, reiterating their decrees for lock down. Of course, no National Disaster Drill at any level can prepare you for the times of […]
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5beeeee1b9125cd 23 March 2020 Across the Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean, we have a situation of parallels. The leaders are unwillingly to gain the trust of their population by offering information! The public in both India and USA were largely in the dark, or were distanced by the events unfolding in the Pacific Rim, […]
22 March 2020 We know that SARS CoV2 has a 90 day march to conquer the herd, virologists theorise that herd immunity and further infection containment happens when 70% of the population is infected. Now India, like European countries and USA has not enforced any ‘lock down’ in the initial 30 days of index cases […]
22 March 2020 There it was delivered in an uncharacteristically sombre, almost held back manner, a speech which I heard live, because I wanted to see whether India’s paramount ruler understood what was before us as a global and local scenario. I am glad that I did. On 20 March, Israeli PM and his wife […]
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