What Others Say, and Think About It

We should be grateful that Covid-19 happens in 2020 but not 1920, in spite of keeping social distance physically, we still manage to connect to one another virtually. However, according to statistic below, this is not applicable to worldwide population. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/ An article by Asia Sentinel, titled " After Covid: A Connectivity Pandemic ", points out that 41% of the world population are actually unconnected. Five priorities have been summarised to ensure connectivity: 1.  Promoting network resilience 2.  Ensuring access to affordable digital services 3.  Social distancing and connectivity 4.  Leveraging e-health and big data 5.  Ensuring institutional frameworks are fit for purpose Nonetheless, our earth is getting divided into two major influences -- the West side is suppressing the East side to limit the room for development, especially in ...

As of April 28, around 4.2 billion people ( 54% of the global population ), representing almost 60% of global GDP, were subject to complete or partial lockdowns all over the world. (source:  https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2020/context-a-world-in-lockdown ) While countries like UK (at earlier phase), Sweden and Brazil are responding with more relaxed measures by placing economic activities as their priority over public health, majority of the press media are condemning such crisis management which seems to aim towards herd immunity . Indeed, it is controversial to trade-off between Economy and Public Health . In the eyes of business people, GDP performance and financial figure are what they are judging at. From social economy perspective, we tend to monetise each human's life and well-being. However, there are some parts of the world where the people would rather die of virus than die of famine, for example in India. People said this virus does not discri...