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Covid-🇲🇲

When the double crises of military coup and Covid-19 pandemic could push half of the population of Myanmar, one of Asia’s poorest countries, below the poverty line of $1.10 a day, by completely wiping out the progress the country has made in reducing poverty over the last one and a half decades.

With ongoing protests against the military rule in which thousands of blue- and white-collar workers have gone on strike with the aim of disrupting the economy and unseating the coup leaders, would Burma ever recover from the Covid-🇲🇲 crisis without a people’s revolution to kick the military junta out of the political system?

by Covido May 1, 2021

Trumpected

When someone is not corona-free, yet tells everybody that they are no longer contagious, or that they are immune from catching the virus again.

With his doctors withholding information to the public about his corona condition, the trumpected superspreader told his love-hate TV channel that he’s ready to resume campaign rallies.

by Covido October 8, 2020

Covid-🇲🇺

When the island paradise turned tax haven, which used to earn its main revenue by exporting quality raw sugar, wished the coronavirus would suffer the same fate as the dodo—Mauritius needs tourists and tax fugitives to come back to revive its comatose economy.

How long would Mauritius—a lackey of China, which could easily or freely provide her with a million-odd doses of coronavirus vaccine to match her population size—have to wait before Covid-🇲🇺 became a reality?

by Covido November 21, 2020

COVID-13

A surge in infections and deaths on a Friday the thirteenth, compared to the figures on other dates, which led the authorities to wonder whether the most fearful or unluckiest date in the calendar in the developed world was a catalyst to the higher infection and mortality rates.

Whether COVID-13 victims suffered a double whammy or not is a topic of discussion suited for numerologists and astrologers rather than for scientists and politicians.

by Covido November 16, 2020

🦤 🔢

Short for “Dodo Math.” Dated math topics, questions, or heuristics that may still interest some curious or eccentric recreational mathematicians or math educators, who in turn might share their “new knowledge” with a geeky or gray-haired audience keen to learn about the mathematics of yesteryear.

Square rooting and finding logarithms with a slide rule and on an abacus are two 🦤 🔢 lessons popular among symbol-minded senior citizens.

by Covido December 30, 2022

Math Homework Crackdown

When the Communist Party of China (CCP) is toying with the idea of limiting the number of hours students could spend on their school math homework every day, much to the relief of millions of math-anxious students and their parents, so that the time could be better spent on non-academic pursuits, or on familiarizing themselves with Xi’s socialist writings.

Unlike the CCP’s dreaded crackdown of its domestic gaming industry, such as prohibiting minors from playing video games Monday through Thursday and limiting their play to one hour on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, its rumored math homework crackdown is being anticipated by both students and parents.

by Covido August 29, 2022

Covid-🇳🇿

When New Zealand that was hell-bent to stamping Covid out has been humbled by the highly contagious delta variant, which forces the “hermit nation” to give up her zero Covid strategy in eradicating community transmission.

“Fortress New Zealand,” which has one of the strictest border rules in the world, has been breached, and with one of the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the OECD, are Kiwis, who have been languishing in a year-long Covid prison, prepared to live with Covid-🇳🇿?

by Covido October 5, 2021