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COVID-🍦

When some mainland Chinese provinces are simplistically tempting vaccine skeptics or anti-vaxxers with buy-one-get-one-free ice cream cones if they get jabbed, as part of their carrot-and-stick strategy.

Is COVID-🍦just a quasi-ineffective primitive marketing gimmick to address vaccine hesitancy among some gullible residents?

by Covido April 10, 2021

Covid-🇭🇺

When Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán used the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to come up with an undemocratic act to grab unlimited political power—for example, someone who is spreading false information about the coronavirus could be jailed up to five years.

Under the cover of the Covid-🇭🇺 pandemic, the Orbán government could declare a “state of health emergency” whenever it wanted to crack down on the Opposition.

by Covido April 10, 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

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

Covid-🇦🇺

When Australia finally comes to terms that its zero Covid strategy to contain the coronavirus pandemic is a mere illusion, which is politically laughable considering that the country has the lowest vaccination rate among the developed countries.

Thanks to “dose sharing” with friendly developed countries, no one expects the land of kangaroos to fail in bringing down the number of Covid-🇦🇺 infections, thus putting an end to recurring lockdowns before the festive season.

by Covido October 4, 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

Covid-🧟 ♂️

The hypothesis that zombies may be carriers of the coronavirus, which prompted the authorities to lock all cemetery gates or to have security guards patrolling the area at the request of superstitious folks to prevent these walking dead from infecting the general population.

Because the infection and mortality rates of residents living near cemeteries are above those from other neighborhoods, authorities don’t want to take any chances what if those infections and deaths were really due to Covid-🧟 ♂️.

by Covido November 16, 2020