When some high-GDP countries whose low fertility rate is below their mortality rate are offering baby bonus cash gifts to their citizens who give birth during the coronavirus pandemic—the authorities don’t want the plague to prevent their nation from having “corona babies.”
Thanks to Covid-👶, Singaporean families could receive up to $35,000 as Baby Support Grant if they planned to add a new member to their family to help arrest the population decline.
by MathPlus October 11, 2020
When politicians or health authorities exhibit a knee-jerk reaction every time there is an accident or mishap in the vaccination process, because they are afraid that their inaction or perceived ineptitude would incur widespread public condemnation.
Be it someone being accidentally jabbed with three times the stipulated dosage of a vaccine, or a teenager being injected with a shot meant only for adults, vaccine fundamentalism lurks in the minds of health officials, who are answerable for the mistakes of others to pacify an oft-misgiving public.
by MathPlus June 09, 2021
A fake medical doctor or pseudoscientific folk who argues that anyone wearing a mask in public after being vaccinated or recovered from an infection is mere theater, because there is apparently zero proof that they can spread the coronavirus or be infected, or become re-infected.
For political or public vanity, Maskhole-in-Chief Rand Paul argues that an inoculated person wearing a mask is just for show rather than serves as a protective measure against the deadlier variants of the virus.
by MathPlus March 20, 2021
The habit of coming out at night to prey on your victims, when they are more vulnerable to predators and less likely to identify and chase after them.
Jack has this battitude of pickpocketing old folks and tourists on weekends, at crowded night markets to reduce his chances of being caught.
by MathPlus January 05, 2018
Singapore’s popular hangout for migrant workers, and a destination of choice for budget tourists, which is arguably ground zero for the high number of corona infected cases that had plagued the “fine” island-state.
Although safe distancing measures were in place at the dormitories long before the lockdown started on April 7, with thousands of migrant workers socializing and shopping at Mustafa Shopping Centre on their off days, it’d have been a miracle or modern-day Passover had God graciously and completely spared the mostly Hindu and Muslim migrants from the coronavirus.
by MathPlus January 05, 2021
The mathematical equivalent of thinking like a child, who uniquely looks at the world imaginatively, playfully, or creatively, much to the delight of others who might even experience an aha! moment from their spontaneous response or behavior.
If mathematical constants like e and 𝛷 were to think like pi, by consciously or freely promoting themselves regularly, there is no reason that they couldn’t be as popular and interesting as the beloved π.
by MathPlus November 24, 2021
The common pattern of Covid-19 test results of most air travelers: tested negative pre-departure and again negative on arrival at their destination, but later tested positive (with zero symptoms) while serving their quarantine at home or in a hotel.
A grade one math question is: “In the corona test series –, –, +, –, –, +, –, …, what are the signs of the next two terms?”
by MathPlus April 15, 2021