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most racist country in the world fucked equally by coronavirus

south africa taxes all races the same, without discrimination. but coronavirus aid is allocated by race. yet, the virus does not care, the coronavirus does not discriminate by race. it is reported that the president of south africa said that "radical economic transformation" is going to happen in south africa. again, by race - sound familiar? everything in this fucking…

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6th May 2020

losing your shit

acronym: FUD. fear. uncertainty. doubt. life is not easy. it has never been easy, no matter who you are and what your environment is. each breath is a struggle. it has always been a struggle. in more uncertain times and during times where your environment controls more of you, there are more specific struggles. where you dominated yourself, you are…

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2nd May 2020

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should the covid-19 lockdown be extended

difficult decisions are made more complex when adding more voices. there are many perspectives to all decisions and few things have one clear answer. virologists are saying : extend the lockdown to August 2020 and possibly another year or two thereafter. biological health mostly agree that the longer people are isolated the more successful the virus will be contained. economists…

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19th April 2020

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flatten the curve and big data

probably one of the most abused phrases by the most ignorant number of people is "flatten the curve" (as it relates to the coronavirus) the problem is not so much the word "flatten" as it is is the word "the". let me explain: curve: each measured group has a different "curve" (if i really dumb this down a lot -…

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12th April 2020

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the south african coronavirus lockdown

the south african coronavirus lockdown is working because statistically our curves are all flatter. factually even our mean peak shifts by a week (this is 7 days) for each one day of lockdown. and, this is not my opinion, this is just plain old math. the south african lock down is working because it supplies the government enough time to…

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12th April 2020