TR EMERITUS

Between last saturday and yesterday, we saw another 195 new Covid-19 cases. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for covid-19 treatment. I am not a fortune teller but in my Facebook posting of 25 March 20, I have alearly warned of our our old folks homes and rental flats being potential Covid-19... 

Why was there a sharp increase in infection since 24 March? I asked my 100 year old crystal ball - where was there a sharp increase in the number of infections during the past two weeks, since 24 March? Could it be due to the large number of students who returned home from the UK and the US? Among them, a large number are reported... 

Now that I have your attention with that rather silly subject line... I've been reading some journalism comparing the responses of different political systems to the COVID-19 global crisis, and so adducing the superiority of one system to another. Much of this journalism strikes me as lacking in facts, context, and nuance. It...