When deadlier variants of Covid-19 from different countries compete with each other to see which of them could cause the most damage or pain to earthlings until effective vaccination forces them to journey to other planets.
At the 2021 Corona Olympics, which country is likely to strike gold in both the infection and mortality events? A nation with low vaccination rate; or one that is continually plagued with nationwide protests, where citizens’ personal choices with regard to masking and vaccination overrule any political mandate to protect themselves and others?
by MathPlus July 27, 2021
To inoculate frontline workers and the vulnerable everywhere in the world first, or to vaccinate everybody in the developed world first before vaccinating those in the developing world.
On moral grounds, rich countries face a vaccine dilemma: should they let medical personnel from rogue or dictatorial nations like North Korea and Venezuela be jabbed first before their own people?
by MathPlus March 02, 2021
When people are advised to avoid handshakes to lower the risk of getting infected with Covid-19, but urged to think of alternative ways to greet one another—for instance, they could bump elbows; embrace the Thai wai and say hi in prayer-like posture; or use the “footshake.”
by MathPlus June 29, 2022
Short for “Thou shalt be at least two meters away from each other in public” to minimize the odds of being infected with the coronavirus.
With tens of thousands of diehard Trumpists and hardcore QAnonists in a number of red states selfishly refusing to wear a mask and to practice safe six, is it any surprise that the country has the world’s highest number of corona fatalities and infections?
by MathPlus March 31, 2021
When even with more money today, you can only afford to buy fewer goods and services than in the past—your future buying power is reduced as basic necessities like food, water, and gas get dearer each time.
Inflation explains why the price of a math book in 1960 was 30 cents, but the same type of book today costs 30 dollars, or why a ten dollars’ worth of cookies today only cost 30 cents half a century ago.
by MathPlus January 04, 2019
When thousands of hardcore supporters of Donald J. Trump so “loved” him that they would die for their “political savior” to ensure that white people in the US, even if they became the minority in the future, would always wield political power over the non-whites—3:16 is a “blasphemous” reference to John 3:16, the biblical verse that reveals about God’s love for His people that He sent his Son to die for mankind on the cross so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life.
For white racists and supremacists, and millions of “white moderates” who have accepted others who don’t look like them in their midst, it doesn’t matter whether the presidential candidate is corrupt, selfish, racist, sexist, xenophobic, or inept, as long as he is white, which is what really matters in the end—they want a Trump 3:16 political figure to rule the country to ensure that white supremacy prevails.
by MathPlus December 21, 2020
Also known as “Boris Math.” When hardcore math educators, most of whom are white supremacists or racists, object to using wallet-friendly, better-quality foreign math textbooks under the guise of protecting local authors and publishers, or are opposed to recruiting foreign math teachers and lecturers to teach in local schools and universities, because their presence unprovenly threatens the livelihoods of locals, who would find it hard to compete with cheaper foreign talents.
PM Johnson and his diehard supporters would fight hard to maintain Brexit math for nationalistic reasons, because any compromise to let in alien mathematical talent would be perceived as going against their Brexiteer principles—math and math education must be local, and not adulterated by foreign elements.
by MathPlus October 02, 2021