by Phil Braham | Sep 12, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary
Many years ago IBM was the big force in computing. They had an advertising slogan ‘No one ever got fired for buying IBM’. In other words, if you need a computer project done and you choose a company other than IBM, and it goes pear shaped (as they often do), your boss...
by Phil Braham | Aug 16, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary
A poster for mask wearing and social distancing A Nazi propaganda poster My mother was brought up in a very Jewish family in Poland. In the early 1930s her parents — my grandparents — took her and her brother out of Poland to Belgium and then to London. They knew that...
by Phil Braham | Aug 8, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary
The anti-blasphemy laws in Pakistan date back to British rule and were undoubtably made for political, not religious, purposes. However they are largely supported in Pakistan. As this BBC article point out: A large majority of Pakistani people support the...
by Phil Braham | Jul 10, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary
Hospitals geared up for COVID When the coronavirus broke out I felt, probably like many people, that I was living through a sci-fi movie. News programs with images of deserted streets and injunctions to stay at home. Now I feel I’m in a different sci-fi movie. It’s...
by Phil Braham | Jul 8, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary
When the Coronavirus outbreak first came to light I wrote this article. The gist of it is that governments should simply let the virus run its course and deal with the disease as it occurs, preferably treating people in their homes and only in hospitals as a last...
by Phil Braham | May 14, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Religion and mysticism, Social commentary
You are offered the blue pill or the red pill In the movie ‘The Matrix’ Neo is offered the choice between two pills: the blue pill will keep him in the dream where he can believe whatever he wants to believe. The red pill ejects him into a reality. You take the blue...
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