Tag Archives: herd immunity
Super-spreading, mobility and crowding
I still see quite a few journalists in India refer to “super-spreaders” vis-à-vis the novel coronavirus – implying that some individuals might be to blame for ‘seeding’ lots of new infections in the community – instead of accommodating the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged basic amenities, caste, class, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Dharavi, herd immunity, housing poverty, inequality, Mumbai, novel coronavirus, public distribution system, public toilets, seroprevalence survey, super-spreader, T Jacob John
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Time and the pandemic
There is this idea in physics that the fundamental laws of nature apply the same way for processes moving both forwards and backwards in time. So you can’t actually measure the passage of time by studying these processes. Where does … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes, Science
Tagged arrow of time, climate change, clock time, coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, entropy, eternity, herd immunity, new coronavirus, novel coronavirus, second law of thermodynamics, time, time symmetry
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