Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Note that most of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus 2019) related FB post contents of mine are put up here: My March 2020 FB posts on novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19),  https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-mar-2020-fb-posts-on-new-coronavirus.html . When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== Good to see Hon'ble Railways minister, Piyush Goyal, share greetings with Parsi (Zoroastrian) community on their festival day of Navroz. I humbly join in these greetings to the Parsi community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz says that it is the Iranian new year and that many communities celebrate it. It further says that for Parsis, who are Zoroastrians (r...

Minor update on 1st May 2019 Given below are contents of most of my posts in March 2020 on the novel (new) coronavirus 2019 nCoV2019 with associated disease labelled as COVID-19 by WHO. Some posts have been put up as as separate posts by itself. Their contents are not included in this post. To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== Jagan government takes over all private hospitals in Andhra Pradesh, https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/310320/jagan-government-takes-over-all-private-hospitals-in-andhra-pradesh.html, 31st March 2020. Hmm. In India, governments have enormous power, especially when it comes to tackling emergencies like this Coronavirus related public health emergency. "Andhra Medical College principal Dr P.V. Sudhakar s...

Last updated on 31st March 2020 Having seen quite a lot of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Internet videos over the past few days, I am now convinced that this man is one of the great public health heroes of our times, not only in the USA, but beyond. I live in India, and I have learned a great deal about dangers of the novel coronavirus pandemic by listening to Dr. Fauci! He communicates so well to laymen like me, without using too much of scientific and medical jargon which could make some laymen switch off. Dr. Fauci: Trump 'got it right away' when he saw new coronavirus data,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksi9rL2sDXo , 12 min. 40 secs, published by CNN on 30th March 2020. Around 3 mins 8 secs, Dr. Fauci says, "As he [President Trump] said multiple times at the press conference yesterday, his first goal is to prevent suffering and death. And we made it very clear to him that if we pulled back on what we were doing and didn't extend them, there would be more avoidabl...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Mann Ki Baat with the Nation, March 2020 [The video was published on 29th March 2020], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nedl4B4foZ4 , around 36 mins, published by Narendra Modi. The video already has over 1 million views now. PM Modi speaks in Hindi but the video has the English translation of his words along with pics and clips giving context to PM Modi's words. Some points of the talk: * PM Modi seeks forgiveness from those who have suffered due to lockdown, especially from the poor. [Ravi: What humility displayed by PM Modi! That's just the right attitude for a public servant, which, ultimately, is what the Prime Minister of the country is, even if he/she is the most powerful person of the country!] * How dangerous Coronavirus is! Great work done by nurses, doctors and others at forefront of fighting this pandemic. * PM Modi speaks to an IT employee from Hyderabad, Ramgampa Teja, who went on work to Dubai, contracting the virus th...