When pirates or sea thieves have been kept busy figuring out how to take advantage of the surge in cargo ships passing by their coastal lands to raid and rob them during the coronavirus pandemic.
Thanks to Covid-🏴 ☠️, Somali marauders have had a boon time attacking a number of ships this year in spite of the economic pains brought about by Covid-19 at home—they sell their loot to buy food to survive the pandemic crisis.
by Covido December 14, 2020
When the Facebook page of Venezuelan President-turned-Dictator Nicolás Maduro was frozen after he repeatedly promoted misinformation about the coronavirus, such as claiming with zero evidence that a herbal remedy could cure Covid-19.
Like US ex-President Donald Trump and Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro who both promoted fake remedies, Venezuelan’s Prescriptor-in-Chief is advising his people how to fight Covid-🇻🇪 inexpensively with herbs rather than depending on dear risky vaccines produced by unfriendly Western nations.
by Covido May 06, 2021
A frightening or undesirable state of mind people find themselves in prior to Christmas—for instance, they might unfairly be made redundant so that their companies could save on salaries and year-end bonuses.
Sanitation engineers at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco were handed a cryptmas letter informing them that they were fired sans retrenchment benefits, because robots would be taking over their wallet-unfriendly jobs.
by Covido December 09, 2022
When Russia even with its much publicized home-made, half-baked vaccine, Sputnik V, named after the first satellite in space, is registering new heights in corona infections and deaths—both local critics and aliens are 99.99% certain that Putin & Co. are downplaying and falsifying coronavirus figures.
With underfunded hospitals and shortage of medicines, and with a corrupt dictatorship that is notorious for serially lying to its people, is it surprising that Russia is presently experiencing a Covid-🇷🇺 crisis?
by Covido December 21, 2020
When bookmakers worldwide are crazy-busy changing the odds on whether President Trump would be re-elected or not, based on the good and bad news that come out about him and his morally bankrupt administration every hour of the day.
Thanks to Covid-🎲, with billions of bucks changing hands, hundreds of millionaires (and thousands of zeronaires) are expected to emerge come November 3.
by Covido September 12, 2020
When tourism-dependent Nepal reopens Mount Everest to climbers and trekkers despite having the second highest infection rate in South Asia, after India—it has a population of 30 million people and relies on hundreds of foreign diehard mountaineers every year to feed its 200,000 sherpas, guides, and porters.
The Nepalese government has been criticized for being more preoccupied with their party’s in-fighting politics than the coronavirus pandemic—they’re ill-equipped to contain the Covid-🇳🇵situation in the face of zero community based isolation centers and limited ICU beds.
by Covido December 20, 2020
When authors of pop math books or e-books try to give their readers a make-believe mathematical experience, by keeping formulas and equations to a minimum, because for the publisher, every additional equation in the book has the potential of halving the sales figures.
Dubbed as “math lite,” armchair math goes some way in helping math-anxious readers appreciate the beauty, ubiquity, and utility of math in real life.
by Covido April 12, 2022