Brilliant
Have you ever done this? Have you ever recorded a message for a loved one on a cassette tape and sent it to them?
I remember seeing others receive these. But I don't believe I've ever sent or received one. What a pity.
I do remember sitting through train journeys writing letters to friends, using carbon paper to send the same message, the same narrative to multiple friends. Yeah, I was obnoxious like that. But, you know, some people did appreciate the letters, original or copy.
I remember not being able to afford a webcam. I'd stay back after work at the MIT Media Lab, back in 2001, just to chat with folks back home in India. Boston would close early, and by the time I'd leave for my B&B, all the dinner places would be closed. I lost so much weight 😂. Yahoo Messenger was all the rage then. The break room had an IP camera that pointed at the table where people would leave spare food. I remember climbing onto the table and looking at the camera, so my friend back home could see me. I realised much later that most folks always had the foodcam open in a window on their computer, so I was staring into the face of a bunch of researchers frequently.
Interestingly, the camera was on a public IP. Everything at MIT was on a public IP because they owned the entire 18.0.0.0 class A block.
Anyway. I suppose we have all done strange things to keep the human touch going over a distance ❤️
I remember seeing others receive these. But I don't believe I've ever sent or received one. What a pity.
I do remember sitting through train journeys writing letters to friends, using carbon paper to send the same message, the same narrative to multiple friends. Yeah, I was obnoxious like that. But, you know, some people did appreciate the letters, original or copy.
I remember not being able to afford a webcam. I'd stay back after work at the MIT Media Lab, back in 2001, just to chat with folks back home in India. Boston would close early, and by the time I'd leave for my B&B, all the dinner places would be closed. I lost so much weight 😂. Yahoo Messenger was all the rage then. The break room had an IP camera that pointed at the table where people would leave spare food. I remember climbing onto the table and looking at the camera, so my friend back home could see me. I realised much later that most folks always had the foodcam open in a window on their computer, so I was staring into the face of a bunch of researchers frequently.
Interestingly, the camera was on a public IP. Everything at MIT was on a public IP because they owned the entire 18.0.0.0 class A block.
Anyway. I suppose we have all done strange things to keep the human touch going over a distance ❤️
Nilay receives a backpack full of clothes that went missing from his life three months ago.
"My life is now complete"
Proceeds to wear many layers of clothes and dance around.
I'll update this post with a pic when possible. Right now there is too much excitement.
"My life is now complete"
Proceeds to wear many layers of clothes and dance around.
I'll update this post with a pic when possible. Right now there is too much excitement.
Ooooo
Me: It's not "I fart at you". It's "I fart in your general direction". It's art. Real art.
Nilay: It takes a true fartist to come up with that.
Nilay: It takes a true fartist to come up with that.
Le birthday jelly. Courtesy Kavin.
(Quarter plate from Banjara Market. Spoon from IKEA. Bedsheet, source unknown. Jelly premix from Weikfield. Photographer, yours truly, who was too lazy to take the jelly to a table before snapping it.)
(Quarter plate from Banjara Market. Spoon from IKEA. Bedsheet, source unknown. Jelly premix from Weikfield. Photographer, yours truly, who was too lazy to take the jelly to a table before snapping it.)
😂🤣😂🤣🎃
For a brief moment in time, oligarchy was defeated. A man was not his surname, his caste, his religious affiliation; he was just a man.
Mesmerising, isn't it? Every living organism has the innate desire to reproduce, even if it is a parasite like this mushroom.
This is also how a Covid positive person is constantly releasing the Covid virus into the air, whenever they breathe, talk, eat, sneeze, cough.
Mask up. Stay apart. Stay safe.
This is also how a Covid positive person is constantly releasing the Covid virus into the air, whenever they breathe, talk, eat, sneeze, cough.
Mask up. Stay apart. Stay safe.
If you've never stayed in a hostel while traveling, have you even traveled?
If the covid mortality rate in your state is high
You should ask your state health minister why
Grateful to be experiencing Diwali, and my birthday next week, because a bunch of nurses and doctors worked their asses off to save me.
You should ask your state health minister why
Grateful to be experiencing Diwali, and my birthday next week, because a bunch of nurses and doctors worked their asses off to save me.
A lifetime spent opposing crackers.
As a school going child I was made aware of the rampant child labour involved in making crackers. And I took the pledge to not burst them.
The industries responded by outsourcing a lot of the work. People would take the work home and use their children, instead of sending their children to factories where they could be spotted by authorities or photographed by nosy journalists.
As a young man I remember going to Vanavani school within IIT campus and speaking to school children there, educating them about the child labour involved in making firecrackers.
CRY used to spearhead the campaign back then. And they were variously labelled as foreign funded and Christian. All the reports from the ground, about the pervasiveness of child workers in firecracker industries, were ignored. People loved crackers.
Gradually, the employment of children in these industries dropped. I'm not sure why or how.
And then the issue of noise and air pollution came up. The health issues that children working in Sivakasi had seen, our own children started exhibiting after Diwali.
This time it was the Hindutva supporters who got their knickers in a knot. Firecrackers had become a part of Hindu religion or culture. But they have only been in wide use for 4-5 centuries. The all important vedas don't mention them, obviously, because the Chinese hadn't invented gunpowder when the vedas were written. These days it has become customary to seek answers about Hindu religion in the vedas instead of just accepting tradition. So a number of seers and religious leaders have given the thumbs down to firecrackers on diwali.
The bursting of firecrackers has gone from being a communal activity to an individual competition of one-upmanship. I remember traveling miles in Bhopal to see ravana being burnt or firecrackers being burst. Now every gully has a celebration. The curse of prosperity. The kinds of harmful chemicals being used to generate various colours and effects have made the courts of the country jump. These aren't your grandpa's anars any more, made at home in a tiny earthen pot with just gunpowder.
And so the battle rages on, year after year. From Diwali to Gurupurab, from weddings to funerals†, and even after cricket victories, our addiction to firecrackers knows no end. Just like our addiction to private vehicles keeps growing year after year.
Please follow WarriorMoms.IN. #DhoomDhamakaWithoutPatakha
† Tamilians burst crackers, dance, drink and make merry in a funeral celebration. This is our tradition. Once the BJP rules TN, we shall have this behaviour rectified as per vedic sanction.
As a school going child I was made aware of the rampant child labour involved in making crackers. And I took the pledge to not burst them.
The industries responded by outsourcing a lot of the work. People would take the work home and use their children, instead of sending their children to factories where they could be spotted by authorities or photographed by nosy journalists.
As a young man I remember going to Vanavani school within IIT campus and speaking to school children there, educating them about the child labour involved in making firecrackers.
CRY used to spearhead the campaign back then. And they were variously labelled as foreign funded and Christian. All the reports from the ground, about the pervasiveness of child workers in firecracker industries, were ignored. People loved crackers.
Gradually, the employment of children in these industries dropped. I'm not sure why or how.
And then the issue of noise and air pollution came up. The health issues that children working in Sivakasi had seen, our own children started exhibiting after Diwali.
This time it was the Hindutva supporters who got their knickers in a knot. Firecrackers had become a part of Hindu religion or culture. But they have only been in wide use for 4-5 centuries. The all important vedas don't mention them, obviously, because the Chinese hadn't invented gunpowder when the vedas were written. These days it has become customary to seek answers about Hindu religion in the vedas instead of just accepting tradition. So a number of seers and religious leaders have given the thumbs down to firecrackers on diwali.
The bursting of firecrackers has gone from being a communal activity to an individual competition of one-upmanship. I remember traveling miles in Bhopal to see ravana being burnt or firecrackers being burst. Now every gully has a celebration. The curse of prosperity. The kinds of harmful chemicals being used to generate various colours and effects have made the courts of the country jump. These aren't your grandpa's anars any more, made at home in a tiny earthen pot with just gunpowder.
And so the battle rages on, year after year. From Diwali to Gurupurab, from weddings to funerals†, and even after cricket victories, our addiction to firecrackers knows no end. Just like our addiction to private vehicles keeps growing year after year.
Please follow WarriorMoms.IN. #DhoomDhamakaWithoutPatakha
† Tamilians burst crackers, dance, drink and make merry in a funeral celebration. This is our tradition. Once the BJP rules TN, we shall have this behaviour rectified as per vedic sanction.
Kunal Kamra's language always tends to be distasteful.
But if you want to know what the public really thinks of the Supreme Court, just look at the comments on any recent LiveLaw post featuring the SC.
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3575421779213664/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3574494522639723/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572629219492920/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572420196180489/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572362216186287/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572012039554638/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3571757832913392/
But if you want to know what the public really thinks of the Supreme Court, just look at the comments on any recent LiveLaw post featuring the SC.
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3575421779213664/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3574494522639723/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572629219492920/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572420196180489/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572362216186287/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3572012039554638/
https://www.facebook.com/421878521234688/posts/3571757832913392/
I'm just here for the comments 😁
Kavin: I don't understand Bose Einstein condensate.
Me: What even is a Bose Einstein condensate?
Kavin: It is a state of matter. When you hypercool gases, all the atoms fuse together.
Me: What's so hard to understand about that? It's a laddoo of subatomic particles.
Nilay: इसे दादी का बनाया एक लड्डू दो भई।
Kavin: 🤷🏽♂️
When you're a budding physicist but you're stuck in the quarantine with two भोंदू भुक्कड़s
Maybe I should get him university physics classes like Young Sheldon
Me: What even is a Bose Einstein condensate?
Kavin: It is a state of matter. When you hypercool gases, all the atoms fuse together.
Me: What's so hard to understand about that? It's a laddoo of subatomic particles.
Nilay: इसे दादी का बनाया एक लड्डू दो भई।
Kavin: 🤷🏽♂️
When you're a budding physicist but you're stuck in the quarantine with two भोंदू भुक्कड़s
Maybe I should get him university physics classes like Young Sheldon
I don't know if you can see it in the pictures. Or if you even care to see it, to be honest. There is a little pink arc on my fingernails, which marks the time I had Covid. My nail thickness has changed after I recovered, and you can observe that in the side profile pic.
(Should I have clipped my nails and washed my hands before taking the pics? Perhaps. But I'm not shooting for a career in hand modeling.)
When I started growing my hair out in college, some wisecrack came up to me and said that the next logical thing for me to do was to go bald. I wondered aloud what was logical about a bald me. He said that I was obviously growing my hair for the shock value, not because I liked them long. And what is more shocking than a bald head?
It's been twenty years and I've held on to my long hair. Except when I contracted typhoid and suffered hair loss, which made me sport a haircut for a few years. Now, once again, I'm losing hair by the clumps. As in 300-400 hair a day, not just regular hair fall. Scientists have helpfully named the condition telogen effluvium. It is a temporary condition caused by stress.
So earlier this month I sat down with my kids and had a conversation with them. Mentally prepared them for a me with very thin (or no) hair. There was a lot of hand wringing. They photographed the clumps of hair on my pillow every morning, and tried to assess when I'd be completely bald. I am not including pics of my fallen hair, so you can enjoy your evening tea.
You didn't need to know any of this. I'll follow it up with a joke 😁
(Should I have clipped my nails and washed my hands before taking the pics? Perhaps. But I'm not shooting for a career in hand modeling.)
When I started growing my hair out in college, some wisecrack came up to me and said that the next logical thing for me to do was to go bald. I wondered aloud what was logical about a bald me. He said that I was obviously growing my hair for the shock value, not because I liked them long. And what is more shocking than a bald head?
It's been twenty years and I've held on to my long hair. Except when I contracted typhoid and suffered hair loss, which made me sport a haircut for a few years. Now, once again, I'm losing hair by the clumps. As in 300-400 hair a day, not just regular hair fall. Scientists have helpfully named the condition telogen effluvium. It is a temporary condition caused by stress.
So earlier this month I sat down with my kids and had a conversation with them. Mentally prepared them for a me with very thin (or no) hair. There was a lot of hand wringing. They photographed the clumps of hair on my pillow every morning, and tried to assess when I'd be completely bald. I am not including pics of my fallen hair, so you can enjoy your evening tea.
You didn't need to know any of this. I'll follow it up with a joke 😁
Please read and introspect...
Cases are rising in Gurgaon and Delhi. Please stay safe by maintaining distance, wearing a mask, and not crowding in indoor spaces. This is India, you won't get airlifted if your hospital doesn't have a ventilator.
The hospitals are choked. A distant relative passed away while waiting for ventilator support in a private hospital in Delhi. These stories are real. Denying Covid is like denying the Holocaust - real innocent people died and you are disrespecting them by denying that they died of Covid.
Please don't endanger everybody with your unsafe behaviour.
The hospitals are choked. A distant relative passed away while waiting for ventilator support in a private hospital in Delhi. These stories are real. Denying Covid is like denying the Holocaust - real innocent people died and you are disrespecting them by denying that they died of Covid.
Please don't endanger everybody with your unsafe behaviour.
❤️🏞️
Me, playing FM radio at home after forever.
Nilay: Is this what you did in the 80s for entertainment?
Me: अरे, we used to listen to FM in the car all the time, before Bluetooth and Gaana/Spotify.
Kavin: अरे those were very difficult days. I'm trying to forget them.
Nilay: Is this what you did in the 80s for entertainment?
Me: अरे, we used to listen to FM in the car all the time, before Bluetooth and Gaana/Spotify.
Kavin: अरे those were very difficult days. I'm trying to forget them.
The Anvay Naik saga is the story of every small business in India.
Anvay Naik of Concorde Designs Pvt Ltd was owed ₹83L by Arnab Goswami of Republic, ₹4Cr Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/Skimedia and ₹55L Niteish Sarda of Smartworks.
He could not recover this amount and hence he and his mother committed suicide.
If I counted the number of times people have gotten away with not paying Thinvent, I'd easily run out of fingers and toes. We have had POs cancelled after the material is ready. We have had people steal our intellectual property and claim it to be theirs. A large company, or a politically well connected one, can easily eat a small one. Unscrupulous employees at large companies eagerly serve their masters by committing crime after crime.
All this means that a business has to be very cautious about manufacturing goods without an advance, or delivering them without full payment. The services industry has it even harder because things are done bespoke. Clients often start negotiating after the entire work is done, the attitude being of giving bakshish not fair dues.
All of this is solvable with a functional legal system. Which we don't have. So much for ease of doing business. This has a chilling effect on business in general. In any case we are a low trust economy where vendors and customers don't trust each other. On top of it when vendors are wary of extending credit, and the legal system doesn't work for buyer or seller, it leads to fewer transactions than are possible (or in operations research speak, a high set up cost for each transaction).
Naik did not receive justice or his payments while was alive. His family did not get justice after he committed suicide. The police conducted a shoddy investigation and closed the file. As luck would have it, one of the perpetrators has political enemies. So now justice will be done. A criminal justice system that works on luck. 🤦🏽♂️
Anvay Naik of Concorde Designs Pvt Ltd was owed ₹83L by Arnab Goswami of Republic, ₹4Cr Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/Skimedia and ₹55L Niteish Sarda of Smartworks.
He could not recover this amount and hence he and his mother committed suicide.
If I counted the number of times people have gotten away with not paying Thinvent, I'd easily run out of fingers and toes. We have had POs cancelled after the material is ready. We have had people steal our intellectual property and claim it to be theirs. A large company, or a politically well connected one, can easily eat a small one. Unscrupulous employees at large companies eagerly serve their masters by committing crime after crime.
All this means that a business has to be very cautious about manufacturing goods without an advance, or delivering them without full payment. The services industry has it even harder because things are done bespoke. Clients often start negotiating after the entire work is done, the attitude being of giving bakshish not fair dues.
All of this is solvable with a functional legal system. Which we don't have. So much for ease of doing business. This has a chilling effect on business in general. In any case we are a low trust economy where vendors and customers don't trust each other. On top of it when vendors are wary of extending credit, and the legal system doesn't work for buyer or seller, it leads to fewer transactions than are possible (or in operations research speak, a high set up cost for each transaction).
Naik did not receive justice or his payments while was alive. His family did not get justice after he committed suicide. The police conducted a shoddy investigation and closed the file. As luck would have it, one of the perpetrators has political enemies. So now justice will be done. A criminal justice system that works on luck. 🤦🏽♂️
Nap time snuggles in the sun
Bonus evening cuddles for you, because you've all been good boys and girls.
You have kids so they can remind you every day that your phone is outdated, and that multiple newer versions are already in the market.
In fact, they remind you that everything about you is old and outdated. Your laptop. Your headphones. Your car. Your TV. Your choice of music. Your jokes. You.
(This is supposed to be funny but it feels strangely sad when I read it back. Feel free to send hugs even though I feel just fine.)
In fact, they remind you that everything about you is old and outdated. Your laptop. Your headphones. Your car. Your TV. Your choice of music. Your jokes. You.
(This is supposed to be funny but it feels strangely sad when I read it back. Feel free to send hugs even though I feel just fine.)
Nilay: Cannibalism seems like a good idea, but
Kavin: No
Nilay: Wait, hear me out
Kavin: Cannibalism is a very bad idea
Nilay: But
I tuned out after this, but Nilay emerged after some time, silent under a vow of silence. Wow. He claimed he can stay silent for a day, but Kavin shut him up for a full 10 minutes with a vow. And no bribe or reward either. Just a challenge.
The younger one has skills. I has to learn.
Kavin: No
Nilay: Wait, hear me out
Kavin: Cannibalism is a very bad idea
Nilay: But
I tuned out after this, but Nilay emerged after some time, silent under a vow of silence. Wow. He claimed he can stay silent for a day, but Kavin shut him up for a full 10 minutes with a vow. And no bribe or reward either. Just a challenge.
The younger one has skills. I has to learn.
Nilay: You're literally made of star stuff. Think about it. Isn't that amazing.
Kavin: अरे that's nothing. You're made of carbon. You get sick by breathing in the stuff you're made of. So you use a carbon filter to filter carbon from the air.
Me: मुझे ज्ञान देना बंद करो। I need शांति।
Kavin: अरे that's nothing. You're made of carbon. You get sick by breathing in the stuff you're made of. So you use a carbon filter to filter carbon from the air.
Me: मुझे ज्ञान देना बंद करो। I need शांति।
My boys receiving a live demo of how they behave all day. Horsing around, puppy style.
Is it that time of the day yet?
Pics by Kavin
Pics by Kavin
Daytime snuggles
Good morning. Its pupper time again.
Now I'm complaining about air pollution in the newspapers also.
@[904835229:2048:Shakun], thanks for the opportunity to speak on the issue.
@[904835229:2048:Shakun], thanks for the opportunity to speak on the issue.
What? Just? Happened?
1. Rajasthan made masks mandatory.
2. It banned firecrackers completely. (Not even those so called green crackers. Nothing. This protects the lungs of existing covid and COPD patients, and keeps lungs healthy in general.)
3. The ban on old and polluting vehicles will be strictly enforced.
Good governance overdose. Like, this is so easy. One farman and done. In Haryana we are just screaming our lungs out while breathing AQI 1200 air, and all they do is cut more trees, denotify forests, and encroach on pedestrian spaces.
(If it is this polluted, is it even air any more? The chemical composition itself has changed.)
1. Rajasthan made masks mandatory.
2. It banned firecrackers completely. (Not even those so called green crackers. Nothing. This protects the lungs of existing covid and COPD patients, and keeps lungs healthy in general.)
3. The ban on old and polluting vehicles will be strictly enforced.
Good governance overdose. Like, this is so easy. One farman and done. In Haryana we are just screaming our lungs out while breathing AQI 1200 air, and all they do is cut more trees, denotify forests, and encroach on pedestrian spaces.
(If it is this polluted, is it even air any more? The chemical composition itself has changed.)
More puppers for you.
A friend of mine needs blood donated at Max Hospital Saket for his father's surgery. The operation is life saving, and a lot of blood will be required, so every donation counts. If you can donate blood, please please help us. Send me a message on FB Messenger and I will share the details with you.
🤗 ❤️ 🆘
🤗 ❤️ 🆘
A friend of mine needs blood donated at Max Hospital Saket for his father's surgery. The operation is life saving, and a lot of blood will be required, so every donation counts. If you can donate blood, please please help us. DM me and I will give you the details.
🤗 ❤️ 🆘
🤗 ❤️ 🆘
How many puppers here?
Subtle
What is this man wearing? Can anyone explain the colours on the hat?
Is he at an election rally or a fancy dress parade?
He can travel all over India making speeches, but can't get his beard trimmed? What tamasha.
Is he at an election rally or a fancy dress parade?
He can travel all over India making speeches, but can't get his beard trimmed? What tamasha.
I often rant about the fact that a lot of the wealth that you see in colonial countries, and in the stock markets of these countries, is from colonial loot and plunder.
Robert Clive looted from India the present day equivalent of £54 million in the 18th century (thus becoming the then richest person in Europe). Apart from this, just this one individual took more Mughal artefacts than are in the possession of the Government of India's museums. These artefacts are housed not in any museum, but in a private residence called the Powis castle in the UK.
But where is the £54 million? Wikipedia is an interesting resource. Clive had nine children. I traced the eldest male descendents of the Clive family. Over eight generations, the eldest of the Clives have thrived. All of them were MPs, either by election or by virtue of them being Earls (whatever that means). Just one portion of the current Clive's wealth is worth £84 million. Imagine the collective wealth of all of Robert Clive's present day descendants, and then compare it to the poverty of his victims' descendants.
Capitalism requires the concentration of risk-friendly wealth in order to fund the rise of a Rockefeller or a Musk. A lot of that concentration, in the hands of people who never worked hard to earn it, has happened through rather bloody means.
(Consider this post a follow up to https://www.facebook.com/saurabh.ja/posts/10158638703457040)
Robert Clive looted from India the present day equivalent of £54 million in the 18th century (thus becoming the then richest person in Europe). Apart from this, just this one individual took more Mughal artefacts than are in the possession of the Government of India's museums. These artefacts are housed not in any museum, but in a private residence called the Powis castle in the UK.
But where is the £54 million? Wikipedia is an interesting resource. Clive had nine children. I traced the eldest male descendents of the Clive family. Over eight generations, the eldest of the Clives have thrived. All of them were MPs, either by election or by virtue of them being Earls (whatever that means). Just one portion of the current Clive's wealth is worth £84 million. Imagine the collective wealth of all of Robert Clive's present day descendants, and then compare it to the poverty of his victims' descendants.
Capitalism requires the concentration of risk-friendly wealth in order to fund the rise of a Rockefeller or a Musk. A lot of that concentration, in the hands of people who never worked hard to earn it, has happened through rather bloody means.
(Consider this post a follow up to https://www.facebook.com/saurabh.ja/posts/10158638703457040)
This pope is a rock star. Can we also get him to reverse church views on abortion? That would be super.
I woke up this morning to the air purifiers whirring away busily. Which is very unusual. Our home is almost air tight now. Overnight the purifiers bring the PM2.5 down to under 30. But today the purifiers are scrubbing air that's 100+. Signs that the airpocalypse had arrived outside.
(All three CPCB meters in Gurgaon are broken this morning. Coincidence?)
(All three CPCB meters in Gurgaon are broken this morning. Coincidence?)
Inheritance tax done right
A patent gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from exploiting an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. It is a contract between an inventor and society. The inventor tells society all about the invention. In exchange, society agrees to exclusive use of the patent by the inventor for a few years.
Inheritance tax does something similar for businesses created by individuals. After the founder has enjoyed the benefits of controlling a listed company in their lifetime, inheritance tax (as implemented in South Korea) ensures that a majority of the founder's shareholding enters the stock market. The wealth generated from the sale of this stock rests with the government.
If you only inherit less than half the shares owned by your parent, you can't end up with disasters like Anil Ambani (a child would rarely inherit a controlling stake). Even worse is the situation created by Mukesh Ambani, who is abusing the wealth he inherited into creating one monopoly after another.
Gift taxes are tightly coupled with inherited tax. Orange Trump wouldn't have received a seed capital of millions of dollars as gift from his dad, if his dad had to give an equal amount to the government.
Korea's Inheritance and tax rates slide up from 10% to 50%, depending on the value of the Inheritance/gift. Taxes done right, indeed. $11 billion of Samsung shares entered the market. And the South Korean government got richer by that much money. Win win.
https://m.timesofindia.com/business/international-business/samsungs-lee-leaves-behind-21-billion-wealth-for-inheritance/amp_articleshow/78856795.cms
A patent gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from exploiting an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. It is a contract between an inventor and society. The inventor tells society all about the invention. In exchange, society agrees to exclusive use of the patent by the inventor for a few years.
Inheritance tax does something similar for businesses created by individuals. After the founder has enjoyed the benefits of controlling a listed company in their lifetime, inheritance tax (as implemented in South Korea) ensures that a majority of the founder's shareholding enters the stock market. The wealth generated from the sale of this stock rests with the government.
If you only inherit less than half the shares owned by your parent, you can't end up with disasters like Anil Ambani (a child would rarely inherit a controlling stake). Even worse is the situation created by Mukesh Ambani, who is abusing the wealth he inherited into creating one monopoly after another.
Gift taxes are tightly coupled with inherited tax. Orange Trump wouldn't have received a seed capital of millions of dollars as gift from his dad, if his dad had to give an equal amount to the government.
Korea's Inheritance and tax rates slide up from 10% to 50%, depending on the value of the Inheritance/gift. Taxes done right, indeed. $11 billion of Samsung shares entered the market. And the South Korean government got richer by that much money. Win win.
https://m.timesofindia.com/business/international-business/samsungs-lee-leaves-behind-21-billion-wealth-for-inheritance/amp_articleshow/78856795.cms
Lalu Prasad: PhD
Nitish Kumar: BE from NIT
Tejaswi Yadav: 8th pass, accomplished cricketer
In India, all you need for political success is the gift of the gab 😊
लालू CM रह गए। यह लड़का PM जाएगा। Qualifications सही हैं 😂
Nitish Kumar: BE from NIT
Tejaswi Yadav: 8th pass, accomplished cricketer
In India, all you need for political success is the gift of the gab 😊
लालू CM रह गए। यह लड़का PM जाएगा। Qualifications सही हैं 😂
Concrete stacks rising out of smoke
A setting sun
A bird heading home
And a pond settling down for the night
A setting sun
A bird heading home
And a pond settling down for the night
The doctor looked me over this morning, and said I'm a lot better.
Then this happened at a friend's beautiful home. Good friends are a blessing 🤗
Now I'm कराहing in bed with regrets 😅
Then this happened at a friend's beautiful home. Good friends are a blessing 🤗
Now I'm कराहing in bed with regrets 😅
किसी को भोजपुरी समझती हो तो भैया बताओ यह अम्मा क्या कह रही हैं। मुझे तो ऐसा लगा सुन कर की भारतीय धोखा पार्टी ने इन्हें यह कह कर बुला लिया कि आओ अम्मा, लालूजी को सुनो और पैसा भी ले लो। और फिर ला कर पटक दिया जुमले वाले के टेंट में।
Urgent plasma donation needed from recovered (within the last 90 days) COVID +ve person in NCR
Blood group - B+ve
Contact person - Nitin Rampal 9811600431
They don’t have the restriction of blood group
Blood group - B+ve
Contact person - Nitin Rampal 9811600431
They don’t have the restriction of blood group
Salt and pepper from Andhra.
Saltullu and pepperullu
Saltullu and pepperullu
Ha ha. Nice try it'll last three years. My boys will destroy this in the first five minutes. Can't have nice things till these fellows grow up.
A starless grey night sky. When the AQI shoots beyond 500 in Delhi. Despair, indeed.
यह भारत है
यहां व्यवसाय देख कर Covid होता है
कुछ भी
यहां व्यवसाय देख कर Covid होता है
कुछ भी
Terrible things are happening in Nigeria. Like in most other parts of the world, despots are using state violence to supress protest and dissent. Here is what one Nigerian friend told me last night:
"Just yesterday, the army massacred over 70 unarmed youths whose only offense was to protest peacefully.... as if that was not enough, before the army was deployed, they sent in government officials to dismantle all cctv cameras so as to hide evidence. None of the government officials or the president is speaking, the media houses in Nigeria are not carrying the news, they’ve been paid off by the government to keep shut. It’s basically a genocide. They even sent in thugs to kill the protesters.
It’s really bad... people are dying on the streets as I type... they’ve deployed snipers and heavily armed army officials to shoot and kill on sight and yet they deny knowing anything. They steal our tax money and use it to buy luxury houses abroad. The corruption is just too much. Since they don’t want the protest to expose how fraudulent and evil they are, they’ve resorted to violence... lots of young people have died."
We Indians do not know much about Nigeria. That is our misfortune. It is the largest country in Africa by GDP and population. It has a large, educated, aspirational and young population, that speaks English fluently. Their young people are fearless and articulate when speaking their minds. If we could only rise above our racism driven by the colour of people's skin. I have Nigerians friends, and I have done business with Nigeria. Absolutely wonderful, kind, loving people.
What is happening there could happen here tomorrow. We need to show solidarity, extend help, watch and learn.
I'm adding some pics in the comments. Do see.
"Just yesterday, the army massacred over 70 unarmed youths whose only offense was to protest peacefully.... as if that was not enough, before the army was deployed, they sent in government officials to dismantle all cctv cameras so as to hide evidence. None of the government officials or the president is speaking, the media houses in Nigeria are not carrying the news, they’ve been paid off by the government to keep shut. It’s basically a genocide. They even sent in thugs to kill the protesters.
It’s really bad... people are dying on the streets as I type... they’ve deployed snipers and heavily armed army officials to shoot and kill on sight and yet they deny knowing anything. They steal our tax money and use it to buy luxury houses abroad. The corruption is just too much. Since they don’t want the protest to expose how fraudulent and evil they are, they’ve resorted to violence... lots of young people have died."
We Indians do not know much about Nigeria. That is our misfortune. It is the largest country in Africa by GDP and population. It has a large, educated, aspirational and young population, that speaks English fluently. Their young people are fearless and articulate when speaking their minds. If we could only rise above our racism driven by the colour of people's skin. I have Nigerians friends, and I have done business with Nigeria. Absolutely wonderful, kind, loving people.
What is happening there could happen here tomorrow. We need to show solidarity, extend help, watch and learn.
I'm adding some pics in the comments. Do see.
Workshop pr0n for all you pervy engineers.
Can you smell the oils and the burning metal from here?
Can you smell the oils and the burning metal from here?
Why am I not surprised that this is coming out of Utah? People in Utah are just inherently nice to each other. One of the best places I've ever been to.
There are places in North East India where I easily see this happening too.
There are places in North East India where I easily see this happening too.
The key advice I give to anyone suffering from acute Covid - admitted in the hospital, or having breathing trouble otherwise - is to calm down and breathe slowly. If you calm your mind, and focus your mind on your breathing, your heart rate will drop.
As explained by my pulmonologist, this is a simple physiological response. When your lungs don't get enough oxygen, they breathe faster. When your heart senses that your blood isn't carrying enough oxygen per litre, it beats faster. It is pumping more blood through your body, so that your cells receive the oxygen per minute that they need. You don't control this with your mind - your lungs and heart are spontaneously responding to variations in your blood oxygen level.
Late one evening, at home, my pulse rate shot up above 130, and I panicked. Panic is not what you need when your heart rate is high. After some confusion, I decided that I am not visiting the ER at night. This decision taken, it was up to me to take care of my body that night, not doctors or nurses. So I lay down in bed, and I started breathing really slowly. I put on some instrumental guitar music - of the genre that could be called spa music - and then I started observing my breath. (Jaya, you know about this evening).
I could not observe my breathing rate at home. But my SpO2 floated up to 94. My pulse rate fell down to 110. At this point I went to sleep. The next night, I repeated the trick. Only this time, the SpO2 went up to 95, and the pulse fell to 90, pretty close to the upper bound of 80 that doctor's recommend. For a man with dicey lungs, a pulse rate of 90 ain't bad.
All my life, people have been trying to teach me meditation. Focus your mind. Empty your mind. But I don't understand why. What is the need? My mind isn't full of trash. It is brimming with wonderful things. Questions about society. New product and startup ideas. Travel plans. Craft ideas. Bad jokes to torture my children with. Happy memories that I recycle all the time. Sometimes my mind gets stuck on some bad memory, but it is easy enough to reach out to a friend or therapist and clear that up.
But I need to calm my mind now. You see, I can directly see the impact of a calm mind on my lungs and heart. And I need to heal my lungs. Which is why I am not doing any work yet. There is no work without stress, deadlines, painful decisions, and surprises that unsettle you. At least that is how my line of work is.
I have had to let it all go - anxiety, worries, to do lists. Even in personal life, being completely calm is easier than one would imagine, once there is a medical need for calmness. It's just like when I am coding or studying. I focus my entire concentration on my code, and then I end up filtering out most sounds and other disturbances from my environment. Now I focus on staying calm.
Yesterday I dropped my phone and broke the screen. Typically, this would cause me a fair amount of remorse. After a bad economy, months of lost work, and mounting medical expenses, the last thing I need is the unnecessary expense of a screen replacement. The repair guys refused to replace it under warranty due to physical damage, so I paid out of pocket and got it done. Que sera sera is not a good philosophy to live by, but it can be a conscious choice I make to save my baniya mind a ton of unnecessary distress.
The class of mind-body exercises - yoga, tai chi, meditation - are clinically proven to reduce blood pressure and assist with heart conditions. In the case of yoga, Patanjali wrote that it is not enough to practice Kriya Yoga. One must first transform one's entire life. You cannot continue to live the way you were living and become a yogi - lifestyle has to change first. The emphasis is on first. And of course, it goes without saying that yoga should only be taught and practiced in the presence of a well qualified teacher.
It's not like I haven't learnt yoga in the past. But it was all water off a duck's back. So you can say I am a novice. Even a novice can bring about a change in lifestyle, and practice breath meditation, in order to eliminate anxiety/stress and the physiological changes it brings.
Which is why it is surprising how large and powerful an industry has cropped up around the simple task of teaching people pranayam. One hairy fellow is teaching kapalbhati and bhastrika over the telly. Over the telly! People are sitting alone up in their bedrooms at 5am practising this stuff. Thankfully Patanjali wasn't buried, otherwise he would be spinning in his grave at the sight of beginners doing yoga and pranayam without any oversight whatsoever.
Next comes the fellow who goes to Mahesh Yogi, learns Kriya Yoga, then decides that this whole free and open source approach that yoga has, simply won't do. So he concocts his own Kriyas, stuff that is more intense than anything in the Yoga Sutras. Stuff that is borderline hyperventilation. All of this gets packaged into nice commercial bundles, marketed in the most savvy manner to people with too much money and too little time.
And then comes Jaggi, a yogi who nobody has ever seen doing any serious yoga himself. He is so busy violating some law or the other, he just doesn't have time for this mundane stuff.
These are just three examples of new age yogis who have violated the very first rule of being a yogi - that of renunciation. Living a jet set lifestyle and building an empire is simply not how a yogi is supposed to conduct himself, so they decided to also be spiritual teachers. Now they regularly abuse words such as quantum, vibration and transcendent, even when none of them has ever been near a Physics book in their life.
They are not the first yogi-spiritual teachers to have dabbled with physics. Annie Besant tried to use clairvoyance to observe the structures of atoms. Aurobindo's followers spiritedly claim that he levitated while meditating in his jail cell. Both Besant and Aurobindo built sprawling campuses in Chennai and Pondicherry. But you visit those campuses even today, and you witness what one calls yogic living - a simple lifestyle.
Anyway. This whole criticism bit is a huge digression. My point is, go local. The size and stature of a yoga guru isn't going to help you. The presence does. Find a teacher who has passed a rigorous teacher's training course in yoga. And if you can't do that in these restricted times, just listen to your own body and do your own thing. A simple oxymeter or wearable fitness band will let you monitor your heart rate and oxygen saturation, thus letting you see the impact of your meditation in real time.
As explained by my pulmonologist, this is a simple physiological response. When your lungs don't get enough oxygen, they breathe faster. When your heart senses that your blood isn't carrying enough oxygen per litre, it beats faster. It is pumping more blood through your body, so that your cells receive the oxygen per minute that they need. You don't control this with your mind - your lungs and heart are spontaneously responding to variations in your blood oxygen level.
Late one evening, at home, my pulse rate shot up above 130, and I panicked. Panic is not what you need when your heart rate is high. After some confusion, I decided that I am not visiting the ER at night. This decision taken, it was up to me to take care of my body that night, not doctors or nurses. So I lay down in bed, and I started breathing really slowly. I put on some instrumental guitar music - of the genre that could be called spa music - and then I started observing my breath. (Jaya, you know about this evening).
I could not observe my breathing rate at home. But my SpO2 floated up to 94. My pulse rate fell down to 110. At this point I went to sleep. The next night, I repeated the trick. Only this time, the SpO2 went up to 95, and the pulse fell to 90, pretty close to the upper bound of 80 that doctor's recommend. For a man with dicey lungs, a pulse rate of 90 ain't bad.
All my life, people have been trying to teach me meditation. Focus your mind. Empty your mind. But I don't understand why. What is the need? My mind isn't full of trash. It is brimming with wonderful things. Questions about society. New product and startup ideas. Travel plans. Craft ideas. Bad jokes to torture my children with. Happy memories that I recycle all the time. Sometimes my mind gets stuck on some bad memory, but it is easy enough to reach out to a friend or therapist and clear that up.
But I need to calm my mind now. You see, I can directly see the impact of a calm mind on my lungs and heart. And I need to heal my lungs. Which is why I am not doing any work yet. There is no work without stress, deadlines, painful decisions, and surprises that unsettle you. At least that is how my line of work is.
I have had to let it all go - anxiety, worries, to do lists. Even in personal life, being completely calm is easier than one would imagine, once there is a medical need for calmness. It's just like when I am coding or studying. I focus my entire concentration on my code, and then I end up filtering out most sounds and other disturbances from my environment. Now I focus on staying calm.
Yesterday I dropped my phone and broke the screen. Typically, this would cause me a fair amount of remorse. After a bad economy, months of lost work, and mounting medical expenses, the last thing I need is the unnecessary expense of a screen replacement. The repair guys refused to replace it under warranty due to physical damage, so I paid out of pocket and got it done. Que sera sera is not a good philosophy to live by, but it can be a conscious choice I make to save my baniya mind a ton of unnecessary distress.
The class of mind-body exercises - yoga, tai chi, meditation - are clinically proven to reduce blood pressure and assist with heart conditions. In the case of yoga, Patanjali wrote that it is not enough to practice Kriya Yoga. One must first transform one's entire life. You cannot continue to live the way you were living and become a yogi - lifestyle has to change first. The emphasis is on first. And of course, it goes without saying that yoga should only be taught and practiced in the presence of a well qualified teacher.
It's not like I haven't learnt yoga in the past. But it was all water off a duck's back. So you can say I am a novice. Even a novice can bring about a change in lifestyle, and practice breath meditation, in order to eliminate anxiety/stress and the physiological changes it brings.
Which is why it is surprising how large and powerful an industry has cropped up around the simple task of teaching people pranayam. One hairy fellow is teaching kapalbhati and bhastrika over the telly. Over the telly! People are sitting alone up in their bedrooms at 5am practising this stuff. Thankfully Patanjali wasn't buried, otherwise he would be spinning in his grave at the sight of beginners doing yoga and pranayam without any oversight whatsoever.
Next comes the fellow who goes to Mahesh Yogi, learns Kriya Yoga, then decides that this whole free and open source approach that yoga has, simply won't do. So he concocts his own Kriyas, stuff that is more intense than anything in the Yoga Sutras. Stuff that is borderline hyperventilation. All of this gets packaged into nice commercial bundles, marketed in the most savvy manner to people with too much money and too little time.
And then comes Jaggi, a yogi who nobody has ever seen doing any serious yoga himself. He is so busy violating some law or the other, he just doesn't have time for this mundane stuff.
These are just three examples of new age yogis who have violated the very first rule of being a yogi - that of renunciation. Living a jet set lifestyle and building an empire is simply not how a yogi is supposed to conduct himself, so they decided to also be spiritual teachers. Now they regularly abuse words such as quantum, vibration and transcendent, even when none of them has ever been near a Physics book in their life.
They are not the first yogi-spiritual teachers to have dabbled with physics. Annie Besant tried to use clairvoyance to observe the structures of atoms. Aurobindo's followers spiritedly claim that he levitated while meditating in his jail cell. Both Besant and Aurobindo built sprawling campuses in Chennai and Pondicherry. But you visit those campuses even today, and you witness what one calls yogic living - a simple lifestyle.
Anyway. This whole criticism bit is a huge digression. My point is, go local. The size and stature of a yoga guru isn't going to help you. The presence does. Find a teacher who has passed a rigorous teacher's training course in yoga. And if you can't do that in these restricted times, just listen to your own body and do your own thing. A simple oxymeter or wearable fitness band will let you monitor your heart rate and oxygen saturation, thus letting you see the impact of your meditation in real time.
We are all still waiting for this wealth to trickle down to the poorest, even as the poor continue to work at less than subsistence wages in the warehouses and factories of the world's richest.
Covid cases keep rising in India. Therefore I am sharing the broad contours of how doctors are managing Covid. If you are in the unfortunate situation of having a loved one who is fighting Covid, this might help you.
There is no treatment (cure) for Covid-19. It can only be managed. The most common symptoms of the onset of Covid are high fever, dry cough and fatigue. If you are sick, it is best to get an rRT-PCR test so you know within 12 hours what's going on with you. This reduces anxiety levels, if all you have is a sore throat from common cold / flu.
Your doctor will begin Covid treatment with Paracetamol (tab Dolo 650mg), usually a max of three a day to be given every time fever crosses 100°F. They'll give you Montair LC to help with your cough. Doxycylin 100mg, an antibiotic, is given to handle any secondary infections. Zincovit and Vitamin C are pretty standard. Blood clotting is a major problem with Covid, so you could get aspirin (Ecosprin). Other than this, you might get a bunch of medicines to handle acidity, diarrhoea, etc.
Your doctor will want you well fed, well hydrated, well rested. They will want a chart of your temperature and SpO₂ measured every two hours. Turn that phone off. Do not Google for answers. Do not talk to ten friends on WhatsApp who ask you anxiety inducing questions. Indulge in positive affirmation, read a funny book, and keep your mind empty. Unless you're 70 years+ with high BP, diabetes, lung or heart issues, your chances of dying are very very low if you follow your doctor's advice and only your doctor's advice.
There is a one in five chance that your oxygen saturation will fall below 94, or you will face respiratory distress (fast breathing). You will then be hospitalised. On admission they will administer you oxygen, and send your SpO₂ soaring to 96. They will also administer you dexamethasone through IV/injection. Depending on how long and how severe your respiratory distress was, the combination of Oxygen and Dexa will put you in Covid heaven. You will feel good, and you will believe that you will heal. Hold that positive thought in your mind for the next few days.
Dexa is the only WHO recognised drug for Covid management. To understand how it works, let us first understand how Covid is healed. A few (about 5) days after contracting Covid from someone, you will start seeing symptoms. Two days into these symptoms, your body starts manufacturing IgM antibodies. Nine days from onset of symptoms, your immune systems starts making IgG antibodies. IgM are generic for all infections; IgG are designed by your body to attack and kill Covid.
The only substance on Earth that cures Covid is the IgG antibodies that your body produces. You could borrow someone else's IgGs using plasma transfusion, but you will still need your own body making IgG to completely finish off Covid. Dexa is a steroid† that calms your immune system. This reduces inflammation in your lungs, which are the battleground between the Covid virus and your IgMs. Human cells replicate by splitting into two. Covid replicates by taking your lung cells and injecting its own RNA into them, thus converting them into Covid cells. Covid is literally eating away at your lungs. By reducing lung inflammation and giving you oxygen, doctors help you breathe better.
(Edit: I've attached a graph. I am counting days from the day you first get fever; this is shown as day 5 in the graph. Adjust X-axis accordingly when referring to the graph.)
You start defeating Covid from the ninth day onwards. So Covid management is just one long wait for the IgGs to kick Covid's ass (while hoping that your lungs or heart don't collapse before you kill Covid). At about the 14th day from symptom onset (first day of fever), your doctor will ask you to get an rRT-PCR test done. If you test negative, hurray. If you don't test negative, they will just try again in a couple of days. Very rarely will you not test negative. (IgG is amazing stuff; if only you and I had paid any attention in bio class and actually understood what IgGs are).
What might happen, if you are hospitalised, is that in spite of Dexa and Oxygen, your lungs are unable to keep up. Doctors will then put you on a BiPAP machine. This lunch box sized machine helps set the pace of your lungs. It makes sure your lungs are always breathing, whether you are asleep or awake. It ensures every breath has a certain minimum amount of air going in. When you breathe in, the pressure is high, when you breathe out, the pressure is lower (but not negative, that is, below atmospheric pressure). The BiPAP keeps your lungs primed, preventing them from collapsing, giving up, or even slowing down.
During hospitalisation you also get regular blood tests, which tell doctors how much infection is inside of you, and that your blood isn't clotting somewhere. You get regular X-rays of your chest, and perhaps some CTs, to see how much pneumonia you have. Pneumonia is simply the correct medical term for the situation that Covid creates in your lungs. Your heart may be monitored using an echocardiogram - because a bad case of Covid spreads from your lungs to your heart and then to your brain.
This is as far as I know. If things get worse and a patient is intubated and put on ventilator (a washing machine sized equipment), just know that death rates are low even for such patients.
Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Remdesivir - clinical studies have discredited these drugs. Depending on your state and country, you might still be given these medicines. I was given HCQ - what is colloquially called कुनैन - and this left me bitter for many days after. By the time I was discharged, ICMR had removed HCQ from their Covid Management Protocol.
If you have further questions, best to connect with me on WhatsApp. Or, better still, ask a real doctor.
(Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice. If you are getting your medical advice from the Internet, you are in deep trouble.)
There is no treatment (cure) for Covid-19. It can only be managed. The most common symptoms of the onset of Covid are high fever, dry cough and fatigue. If you are sick, it is best to get an rRT-PCR test so you know within 12 hours what's going on with you. This reduces anxiety levels, if all you have is a sore throat from common cold / flu.
Your doctor will begin Covid treatment with Paracetamol (tab Dolo 650mg), usually a max of three a day to be given every time fever crosses 100°F. They'll give you Montair LC to help with your cough. Doxycylin 100mg, an antibiotic, is given to handle any secondary infections. Zincovit and Vitamin C are pretty standard. Blood clotting is a major problem with Covid, so you could get aspirin (Ecosprin). Other than this, you might get a bunch of medicines to handle acidity, diarrhoea, etc.
Your doctor will want you well fed, well hydrated, well rested. They will want a chart of your temperature and SpO₂ measured every two hours. Turn that phone off. Do not Google for answers. Do not talk to ten friends on WhatsApp who ask you anxiety inducing questions. Indulge in positive affirmation, read a funny book, and keep your mind empty. Unless you're 70 years+ with high BP, diabetes, lung or heart issues, your chances of dying are very very low if you follow your doctor's advice and only your doctor's advice.
There is a one in five chance that your oxygen saturation will fall below 94, or you will face respiratory distress (fast breathing). You will then be hospitalised. On admission they will administer you oxygen, and send your SpO₂ soaring to 96. They will also administer you dexamethasone through IV/injection. Depending on how long and how severe your respiratory distress was, the combination of Oxygen and Dexa will put you in Covid heaven. You will feel good, and you will believe that you will heal. Hold that positive thought in your mind for the next few days.
Dexa is the only WHO recognised drug for Covid management. To understand how it works, let us first understand how Covid is healed. A few (about 5) days after contracting Covid from someone, you will start seeing symptoms. Two days into these symptoms, your body starts manufacturing IgM antibodies. Nine days from onset of symptoms, your immune systems starts making IgG antibodies. IgM are generic for all infections; IgG are designed by your body to attack and kill Covid.
The only substance on Earth that cures Covid is the IgG antibodies that your body produces. You could borrow someone else's IgGs using plasma transfusion, but you will still need your own body making IgG to completely finish off Covid. Dexa is a steroid† that calms your immune system. This reduces inflammation in your lungs, which are the battleground between the Covid virus and your IgMs. Human cells replicate by splitting into two. Covid replicates by taking your lung cells and injecting its own RNA into them, thus converting them into Covid cells. Covid is literally eating away at your lungs. By reducing lung inflammation and giving you oxygen, doctors help you breathe better.
(Edit: I've attached a graph. I am counting days from the day you first get fever; this is shown as day 5 in the graph. Adjust X-axis accordingly when referring to the graph.)
You start defeating Covid from the ninth day onwards. So Covid management is just one long wait for the IgGs to kick Covid's ass (while hoping that your lungs or heart don't collapse before you kill Covid). At about the 14th day from symptom onset (first day of fever), your doctor will ask you to get an rRT-PCR test done. If you test negative, hurray. If you don't test negative, they will just try again in a couple of days. Very rarely will you not test negative. (IgG is amazing stuff; if only you and I had paid any attention in bio class and actually understood what IgGs are).
What might happen, if you are hospitalised, is that in spite of Dexa and Oxygen, your lungs are unable to keep up. Doctors will then put you on a BiPAP machine. This lunch box sized machine helps set the pace of your lungs. It makes sure your lungs are always breathing, whether you are asleep or awake. It ensures every breath has a certain minimum amount of air going in. When you breathe in, the pressure is high, when you breathe out, the pressure is lower (but not negative, that is, below atmospheric pressure). The BiPAP keeps your lungs primed, preventing them from collapsing, giving up, or even slowing down.
During hospitalisation you also get regular blood tests, which tell doctors how much infection is inside of you, and that your blood isn't clotting somewhere. You get regular X-rays of your chest, and perhaps some CTs, to see how much pneumonia you have. Pneumonia is simply the correct medical term for the situation that Covid creates in your lungs. Your heart may be monitored using an echocardiogram - because a bad case of Covid spreads from your lungs to your heart and then to your brain.
This is as far as I know. If things get worse and a patient is intubated and put on ventilator (a washing machine sized equipment), just know that death rates are low even for such patients.
Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Remdesivir - clinical studies have discredited these drugs. Depending on your state and country, you might still be given these medicines. I was given HCQ - what is colloquially called कुनैन - and this left me bitter for many days after. By the time I was discharged, ICMR had removed HCQ from their Covid Management Protocol.
If you have further questions, best to connect with me on WhatsApp. Or, better still, ask a real doctor.
(Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice. If you are getting your medical advice from the Internet, you are in deep trouble.)
This is a huge test and could be a big success for the Modi government. To successfully revive a business, rather than dissolve it, is an achievement worth bragging about.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-jet-airways-staff-after-nod-to-revival-plan-120101800261_1.html
The ball is now in the government's court. The government has to facilitate regulatory approval rather than create bureaucratic hurdles. At stake are over ₹1,000 crores owed to employees, and much more to vendors. Let's see if Modi can walk the "ease of doing business" talk.
This is a pre-Covid insolvency. If this sets the trend for the IBC, then a lot of businesses that go under due to Covid could be revived rather than dissolved, saving jobs and assets.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-jet-airways-staff-after-nod-to-revival-plan-120101800261_1.html
The ball is now in the government's court. The government has to facilitate regulatory approval rather than create bureaucratic hurdles. At stake are over ₹1,000 crores owed to employees, and much more to vendors. Let's see if Modi can walk the "ease of doing business" talk.
This is a pre-Covid insolvency. If this sets the trend for the IBC, then a lot of businesses that go under due to Covid could be revived rather than dissolved, saving jobs and assets.