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Miscellaneous Facebook posts & comments in June 2020

Last updated on 5th Sept. 2020 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. ========================================== Around a week old video but notable for recognition of good work done by Kerala and its health minister K.K. Shailaja in combating and controlling COVID pandemic in Kerala. Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja invited to speak on UN Public Service Day, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIpBhNtHyg, around a minute. This video has a clipping of the U.N. video conference. Here's another video on the matter which gives more of general background of how Kerala combated COVID pandemic, with significant success (especially as compared to some other states of India). UN honours Kerala Health Minist...

Miscellaneous Facebook posts & comments in May 2020

Note that most of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus 2019) related FB post contents of mine are put up here: My May 2020 FB posts and comments on novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) / COVID-19,  https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-may-2020-fb-posts-and-comments-on.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. ========================================== My comments on a non-public post of somebody else on FB: What the video showed of the police officer having his knee on Late George Floyd's neck while he was complaining that he could not breathe and which is alleged to have been around 9 minutes, and while 3 other officers did nothing to prevent this, is absolutely horrifying! And this is ...