TR EMERITUS

I am both an Economics as well as Statistics student. Although I am more specialized and focused in Economics, but I have great learning from my Statistics lectures as well. When experts were throwing lots of differing opinions around with regards to this Coronavirus crisis, I will always do a reality check with the numbers... 

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is growing, palpable discontent and frustration on the ground, about how the COVID-19 crisis is being handled. Much of the anger is directed at the inconsistencies in policies. On one hand, we want to ensure safe distancing, so we cannot meet friends. Yet on the other hand, crowds... 

I’ve often argued that the human race has an incredible talent of finding areas of differences, there is one unfortunate factor that seems to unite the world. That unfortunate factor is the inability to view anyone of a darker skin tone as a normal human being. Racism, particularly in the West, is currently a “Black-versus-White”...