Coronavirus pandemic, worldwide

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

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This 30 April 2020 video says about itself:

Pakistan: Doctors on hunger strike for PPE beaten and tortured by police

Health workers in Pakistan are on hunger strike and occupying hospitals to try and get proper PPE – the only masks and gowns they have at the moment are made of paper. In Lahore, they have only THREE respirators – and with an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, they are struggling with huge courage get the resources they need to save lives.

Aid group warns of 3.2 million COVID-19 deaths, 1 billion infections in war-torn countries. By Bill Van Auken, 30 April 2020. The threat of massive fatalities is the legacy of decades of US imperialist wars that have ravaged entire societies, from Afghanistan, to Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Family members protest amid six more deaths at Australian aged care home. By Mike Head

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Demographic Transition and Urbanization

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

If one turns to urbanization, again there are major problems with how it is usually approached by social scientists. once more, no one can doubt the great importance of the subject. For example, almost every country in the world is currently urbanizing, and many countries are experiencing unprecedented rapid rates of urban growth.There is a vital questions “Why Cities Grow so fast?”.  However, these facts are usually taken as the starting point for analysis. In as much as research addresses anything further back in the causal chain, it tends to give the most attention to the role of  rural-to-urban migration in bringing about urbanization. indeed, migration probably receives undue weight in this respect. as others have observed, the causes of urbanization have received relatively little attention ( Preston 1979; woods 2003a).

In addition, demographers and other social scientists often place too much weight on the interpretation of early experience in their attempts at explanation. this inclination can be especially strong if the early experience relates to their own culture and history. relatedly, there is a tendency to frame explanations in terms of features that eventually turn out to be relatively superficial. Such problems have affected research on both the demographic transition and urbanization. thus, the fact that in European societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries industrialization and modern economic growth accompanied the demographic transition and urbanization has encouraged the idea that the former sorts of economic processes are the causes of the latter. However, such economic interpretations have faced difficulties in recent decades, because processes like fertility decline and urbanization have been occurring in settings where sustained economic growth and industrialization are largely absent.

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Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19. What It Brings Next Could Be Far Worse.

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

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A virus that originated in animals has upended life across the globe. But the next deadly pandemic could make this look like “a warmup.”
By Jimmy Tobias and Chris D’Angelo
ILLUSTRATION: JUN CEN FOR HUFFPOST

Dr. Richard Kock was on duty at London’s Royal Veterinary College in January 2017 when he received an urgent message from international health officials. He was needed for an emergency response mission in the Mongolian countryside, where a deadly viral outbreak was underway.

He packed his things, caught a flight to the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and drove for two days into the arid steppe. He found a disturbing scene: frozen corpses scattered on hillsides, burn pits stacked with bodies and residents addled with anxiety.

But this pandemic was not targeting humans. It was goat plague, a lethal and highly infectious virus that has killed goats, sheep and other small ruminants in huge numbers…

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Band Graph

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

 It shows the trend of values, both the total and its parts, by a series of lines drawn on the same frame. The Y-axis represents the time scale and the X-axis shows the values.  The corresponding sub-division are shaded differently to form different bands.

 

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