Covido's definitions

Briccine

When wealthy corona patients try to bribe the hospital to short-circuit the waiting time to get vaccinated, who let the doctors decide what to do with their generous contribution: to pocket it themselves, or to donate it to a charity out of fear of being accused of corruption.

A CEO was about to donate $50,000 to the hospital prior to getting a briccine, but withheld the money when told that he wouldn’t get the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 or the Moderna dosage, but the Sputnik V shot instead—a proof that not all Covid-19 vaccines are treated equal.

by Covido December 22, 2020

Green Billionaire

A wealthy individual who doesn’t give a heck about owning a private jet, living in a mega-mansion, wearing clothes made from animal skin, or savoring exotic cuisine in far-distant lands.

Wouldn’t the planet have a break if its filthy rich inhabitants made up their minds to become green billionaires?

by Covido November 18, 2021

Blah-Blah-Blah Math

When decision makers from Ministry of Education’s around the world continually fail to walk their talk in raising the quantitative literacy of their citizens—lots of BS promises to make themselves sound keen to improve the numeracy rate of the population without implementing oft-painful or unpopular concrete steps to achieving their goal.

Blah-blah-blah math talks among politicians or publishers are cheap or music to the ears, but hardly ever translate into actions, because keeping their jobs or being profitable prevents them from rocking the mathematical boat.

by Covido November 21, 2021

Covid-🇹🇭

When the land of a thousand smiles of 70 million people that shares porous borders with four countries, with 4,000-plus corona cases and 60 deaths so far, is now seeing an outbreak among hundreds of its Myanmar migrants, who work at the Mahachai market—the heart of Thailand's multi-billion-dollar seafood industry.

Will Thailand’s attempts to revive its hard-hit tourism industry, by easing restrictions to allow more foreigners to visit the kingdom, be put on hold again due to the latest Covid-🇹🇭 crisis?

by Covido December 21, 2020

Singapore

The economic-and-political model country for rogue political leaders or dictators in developing countries, with capitalist leanings, who long to enrich themselves and their cronies—minimum political freedom for the electors and maximum financial gain for the elected.

A number of African and Asian nations are keen to emulate Singapore’s model of governance in helping their oft-undisciplined or unmotivated population out of poverty, by reducing red tape to promote business entrepreneurship and meting out heavy penalties for lawbreakers—and bankrupting or/and jailing those who try to “pollute the minds” of an oft-apathetic or petrified electorate.

by Covido January 25, 2022

Math 4 Life

When quantitative reasoning or mathematical thinking, which makes use of numbers and other mathematically based ideas to reason our way through the kinds of problems that confront us every day, becomes a way of life or second nature to us.

Math 4 Life is quite different from oft-impractical school math, but it’s as just as, or sometimes more, important.

by Covido August 24, 2022

The Great Lockdown

A term that refers to the global economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, which has inflicted so much pain and suffering to millions of employed and jobless people—it is like Covid-19 has resurrected the Great Depression of the 1930s.

What are the odds that the widening inequality between the rich and the poor, exposed by the Great Lockdown, if not addressed, could lead to a global economic meltdown or apocalypse?

by Covido February 4, 2021