When Mohammedan pirates from Somalia are not only surviving but also thriving during the coronavirus pandemic, as they justify their sea raids on the increasing number of cargo ships passing by their coastal waters because of poverty.
Unlike the Ethiopian and Kenyan seamen whose livelihoods took a nosedive during the lockdown, Somali sea thieves were doing brisk business thanks to Covid-🇸🇴.
by Covido December 25, 2020
by Covido January 07, 2021
The name North Korea plans to christen its locally developed Covid-19 single-shot vaccine, which can be kept at regular refrigerated temperatures—it has allegedly been shown to be 91% effective in a Phase 3 trial involving no less than a quarter million human guinea pigs.
A spokesperson from the Pyongyang Medical University told the media that millions of free doses of Covikim would be shipped to friendly nations like Iran, Syria, and Mozambique as part of the country’s “vaccine diplomacy.”
by Covido January 29, 2021
A certificate that proves that someone had been corona-vaccinated, which would allow them to travel to many countries without having to quarantine before their departure and after their arrival.
by Covido December 12, 2020
When the natives of Easter Island realized that with closed borders during the coronavirus pandemic they could no longer depend on tourism for their survival; as a result, they switched to tapu, an ancient Polynesian tradition that is based on protecting their health, their lives, and their elders’ wisdom, with spiritual restrictions and shared prohibitions at its core.
In the long term, COVID-🗿could be a blessing in disguise for Easter Island—which relies so heavily on mainland Chile for food, and its 100,000-odd annual tourists for income—to be self-sustainable and waste-free.
by Covido December 26, 2020
When a math educator is hell-bent to depicting an idiot-proof version of Singapore’s bar model method as a non-algebraic solution to a word problem to impress upon teachers and writers that most of their clumsily or amateurishly constructed bar models often confuse rather than enlighten their green audiences.
Singapore math writers ought to mindfully and elegantly incorporate bar modeling in their solutions to brain-unfriendly math questions if they are dead serious in marketing the intuitive problem-solving visualization strategy to skeptical math teachers overseas—they need to creatively evangelize the “bar modeling made ridiculously simple” gospel far and wide to win over new converts.
by Covido February 20, 2022
When Costa Rica becomes the first country in the world to make it mandatory for children to be vaccinated, with about 1.5 million doses to be given to those aged five to 11—vaccination with apparently no serious side effects in this age group would arguably help stop infected children from spreading the virus to others.
Even if the US has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for 28 million young Americans, making it mandatory for children in red states would further polarize the nation, because a Covid-🇨🇷 template would face strong parental opposition in the name of freedom of choice and due to the risk of juvenile death.
by Covido November 07, 2021