Tag: Covid

  • Learning by Proxy | COVID Climate

    While climate change has been a topic of intense conversation, no world leader would have come anywhere close to forcing the kind of change that COVID has done. It also makes you wonder if nature knows how to protect itself. Snuff out the virus called Humans. It is also causing industries to alter in unthinkable…

  • Learning by Proxy | Climate>COVID

    COVID has had a huge impact on business in general. Some businesses have been heavily hurt while others not so much. Some are even thriving [healthcare, except in the US]. To me, this just seems like a glimpse of what is to come when the climate goes off the handle. Reminds of a cartoon. COVID…

  • Learning by Proxy | Visa – Jio – COVID after effects

    Every Saturday, I publish this series called Learning by Proxy. It is a capsule of some of the stuff that I found interesting over the week along with some context to it. I hope you enjoy it. Follow Up Visa Ban The USA has been busy disallowing Visa to several categories of people. Last week…

  • COVID – What the numbers reveal

    COVID is a virus that has affected 0.1% of the world population. It is highly contagious and has been able to circumnavigate the globe.  On the surface – the above graphs make two things obvious : More people are being affected by COVID than before Fewer people are dying due to COVID than before The…

  • America – Testing – Space | Learning by Proxy

    Every Saturday, I publish this series called ‘Learning by Proxy’. It is a capsule of some of the stuff that I found interesting over the week along with some context to it. I hope you enjoy it. When I started on the suggestion of a friend, I did not know how it would play out.…

  • COVID could save IoT

    COVID could end up being the renaissance of IoT I had talked at one of the events a couple of years ago about the lack of adoption of IoT. At the event, we were discussing the interfacing. For a lot of us who used a computer before 1995, our introduction to computers was through the…

  • Hidden Cost of COVID

    I have a near and dear one who would probably be helped a great deal by having the entire range of healthcare solutions being made available. But due to age and fear of contracting COVID, the individual has not visited the hospital for over a month now despite symptoms.  According to WHO Cardiovascular diseases are…

  • Inflation in the times of COVID

    When people get out of the lockdown in India and get back to work/shopping, the one noticeable change that they are going to find is in the prices.  All the discounts have disappeared!  A meal that I would cost me about Rs. 300 now costs me Rs. 550. The cab ride which I would have…

  • Economy – after COVID

    Every economy in the world today has two types of income centres – Internal Consumption and External Consumption.  Internal consumption is all of the things bought and used by the people of your own country. External Consumption is all of the things that you sell to other countries because you are either really good at…