My sister joined her first job at Google in Oct 2019. Following the Chinese New Year Holidays, she came home in Jan and soon after that, the world was rapidly reporting cases of Coronavirus. Flights were being cancelled, China was reeling under the virus attack and we decided that her going back wasn’t an option. … Continue reading Home Coming and Hugs
Go Corona, Corona Go!!! Some Funny Covidiotic Moments.
Covidiot (noun) - Someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety. A person who hoards goods, denying them from their neighbors. "Did you see that covidiot with 300 rolls of toilet paper in his basket?" Source: Urban Dictionary As Covid 19 majorly spread across countries, this was a new word coined as it … Continue reading Go Corona, Corona Go!!! Some Funny Covidiotic Moments.
Busting Myths and Fake News on Covid – 19
Mabud Ali earns a living by selling cow’s milk. He has two cows; an Indian and a Jersey. But now he has an additional income. He sells 1 Kg of cow dung for Rs. 500 and 1 liter of cow urine for Rs. 500 on the streets of West Bengal, all thanks to Coronavirus. In … Continue reading Busting Myths and Fake News on Covid – 19
What Comes to Your Mind When I Say Essential Services?
The services we’re highly dependent on are the ones that give us food, keep us healthy, handle our money and dispose the dead! Additionally, since we lack ethics, the Police becomes the essential sector because we've reduced education to 'means to earn a living' rather than 'means to life'. But there's more!
Day 8 of Quarantine
Peep into my thoughts on the 8th Day of Quarantine
Controversies That Might Have Worsened COVID – 19
There are so many different sections of the society that work tirelessly to fight a calamity. But it isn’t the calamity alone that they have to overcome. A million other factors pop-up in between. Some of them might be the direct effects trickling down but some of them are completely unforeseen and mostly man-made.
THE BEGINNING
My sister who was working in Taiwan had come home for the Chinese New Year. Since she knew people from that area, she was more informed about the situation. That is how it is, isn’t it? If you are associated with a place that’s going through tough times, you know the plight of the people there. It is through her that I realized that the situation in China was gruesome!
