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Who wants a Covaxin jab?

The dreaded vaccination question everyone in Africa and Asia is avoiding to answer even as India continues to donate millions of its home-grown, half-baked vaccine, which has received zero approval from WHO, to the developing world as part of its vaccine diplomacy—when the locals themselves have near-zero faith in their own vaccine.

In and outside India, the question to ask shouldn’t be “Who wants a Covaxin jab?” but rather “Who doesn’t want a Covaxin jab?”

by MathPlus March 21, 2021

Mask Trading

The latest product forex exchanges are keen to introduce to investors during this pandemic crisis, especially when mask wearing is likely to remain mandatory or be strongly recommended long after the populations of most countries have been vaccinated.

During this year’s new lockdowns, a number of bogus companies were charged for cheating gullible investors of over $10 million, by promising them an average of 20 percents returns in financing mask trading activities.

by MathPlus March 22, 2021

Pi Moment

When the public announcement of the proof of a famous unsolved problem on π turned out to be short-lived, because the result was later found to contain grave errors.

Mathematicians worldwide were excited to hear that the number (π + e) has been proved to be transcendental (i.e., its value can’t be the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients), but the news was nothing but a pi moment.

by MathPlus March 22, 2021

Who Wants a Sinovac Shot?

The Chinese equivalent of “Who wants a Covaxin jab?” When China is aggressively involved in vaccine diplomacy, by donating millions of its home-made partially trialed and 50⁺% effective vaccines to poor or emerging countries, whose populations have mixed feelings about these WHO-unapproved shots—is China trying to redeem itself or to make up for its earlier lies and cover-ups for failing to alert the world of the pandemic?

When beggars can’t be choosers, even if the vaccines have got zero WHO approval, how dare millions of recipients worldwide cynically or skeptically ask: “Who wants a Sinovac shot?”

by MathPlus March 23, 2021

Trumpism Prevention Day

When citizens of the world remind themselves every January 6 to lend zero support to white racism and supremacism, and to have zero tolerance for bigotry and xenophobia—in reference to the date when Donald J. Trump incited his diehard supporters-turned-terrorists to storm the US Capitol as a desperate attempt to illegally prolong his stay at the White House.

Guesstimate how many people worldwide are expected to denounce white terrorism on Trumpism Prevention Day in 2022.

by MathPlus March 24, 2021

I Got My Covaxin Jab

The mantra printed on the badge or T-shirt worn by diehard BJP or Modi supporters, who proudly want to tell the world that they have 100% trust in India’s half-trialed vaccine, which is shunned by developed countries, but reluctantly used by a few developing nations that could not afford or get hold of other vaccines, whose citizens see themselves as guinea pigs.

“I Got My Covaxin Jab” is like the Indian equivalent of “I Got My Sinovac Shot,” with both Indian and Chinese vaccines yet to receive any WHO-approval.

by MathPlus March 25, 2021

Covid-19 Is Right-wing.

When the coronavirus has a soft spot for right-wing governments, whose leaders are often morally bankrupt and managerially inept, as their fake leaderships currently account for over half the world’s infections and nearly half the deaths.

Think of the US, Brazil, India, and Russia. The failure of these nations’ rogue leaders to contain the coronavirus pandemic arguably shows that “Covid-19 is right-wing.”

by MathPlus March 26, 2021