So it seems that we now we have three options: Lift restrictions. Cost = widespread loss of life, widespread hospitalisation, impact on economy. Continue strict restrictions until vaccine. Cost = Impact on economy, societal wellbeing and mental health. Test, trace, isolate. Cost = Equipment, manpower, organisation. Difficult choices. The question is what sort of society …
Some threads to ponder. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1248939530939490304.html threadreaderapp.com/thread/1249996541424816128.html twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1246866119597621248 And further reading. There’s life in the old dog yet: let no-one be abandoned to Covid-19 Why herd immunity will not save us from the Covid-19 pandemic
A very learned friend of mine said to me the other day: “Isn’t Covid-19 just like flu?”
For the eminent preacher, confessing in public to repeated and multiple enormities, the faithful will offer seventy-thousand excuses, celebrating his intellectual contribution to the ummah. For the nurse that died in the line of duty, two decades spent serving the sick and infirm, there will be no celebrations of a life well-lived. No, for the …
Yes, the so-called “Mainstream Media” sometimes lies to you. Tabloid newspapers have repeatedly printed spurious stories for years, usually stirring up hatreds of minorities. Broadsheets too have printed made up and exaggerated tales which suited their political agenda. TV, radio and online media, managed by seemingly respectable authorities have all played their part in commercial, …
If you notice, our Lord is taking all the good people back to Him. Selfless clinicians, putting themselves in harm’s way to save the lives of others. Witnesses to truth, goodness and virtue. May Allah reward them in abundance.
Some people see a conspiracy. I see incapacity, discontinuity, utter incompetence and gross negligence.
Friends are forwarding to me — over and over — articles which claim to prove that the coronavirus crisis is a hoax. Once more, Global Research, Prison Planet and Peter Hitchens are taken as voices of authority. Once more, the approach of the fabled Anti-Christ is cited, bringing with him a dystopian dajjalic system imposed …
It’s true: some months ago I was a sometime admirer, celebrating his insight in certain fields, though I lamented his wit and quick humour. But the more he performs and acts in jest, and spouts nonsense to the crowds that follow him, the more I think to myself: “mufti is an idiot”. To be fair, …
The past few weeks, this verse keeps on springing to my mind; Indeed, God is not timid to present an example — that of a mosquito or what is smaller than it… Look what has become of us due to something smaller than a gnat — the tiniest of microorganisms! It has changed life so …
We are still on Plan A while they pretend we are on Plan B.
Dear Richard Branson, You have managed to accumulate four billion dollars of personal wealth in your lifetime. Good for you. Virgin Atlantic is one of your children, as you put it. You still retain a 51% stake in the company. That child is now in difficulty due to global events beyond anyone’s control. So you …
We have been rampaging throughout the earth, ravaging the poor, leaving only destruction in our wake. Eventually there will be a rebalancing. Have they not travelled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? They were greater than them in power, and they ploughed the earth and built it up …
