VM: I am learning a lot from your sensitive articles . I cannot find the article where you wrote that the population of the City of Old Goa was double that of London and Paris put together. Then Old Goa collapsed !!! Was it an outbreak of Malaria. There are many cases of pandemics in history they have been resolved by taking sensible steps not irrational decision.
*FIRST You have traveled widely but also met the people, famous . *In your piece on Chef D Cruz ,who died of the Corono 19 Your Message-ID: <CAN1wPW7am+c+pASzy4tNjQt4JO1= [email protected]> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/cardoz-was-irrepressibly-enthusiastic-about-his-culinary-heritage/articleshow/74847849.cms The first time I set eyes on Floyd Cardoz, he was carrying an entire deer carcass. It wintertime in New York City, at the 1996 ?Sustainable Cuisine Dinner? in the stunning Delegate?s Dining Room at the United Nations, *featuring environmentally sensitive dishes from the best American chefs: Michael Romano, Rick Bayless, Patrick Clark. Chef Floyd?s food was grounded in his Goan background, filtered by French Cardoz was irrepressibly enthusiastic about his culinary heritage. In our last telephone conversation he told me, ?everything the world talks about as fashionable The world is waiting for us!? Should Chef Floyd...have hidden in NEW YORK because he did not know about the Pandemics.. *THIRD Your Piece on What the Leadership is doing in **KERALA & MAHARASHTRA * Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:34:07 +0530 From: V M <[email protected]> To: V M <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Coronavirus Competence: The Kerala Model (Dhaka Tribune, 27/3/2020) Message-ID: <CAN1wPW7qVFZLWKZxN=byhfR3+RbDq-t7yr_tUB9= [email protected]> https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/2020/03/26/can-the-kerala-model-help-us-fight-covid-19 You come straight to the point "All this week in South Asia, amidst immense human suffering caused by nearly two billion people retreating from the streets in panicked flight from the coronavirus emergency, two Indian leaders stood out by radiating confidence and empathetic humanity. The more surprising statesman is Uddhav Thackeray, chief minister of Maharashtra, who radiates personal calm, and has managed to keep his state in the same condition of being. But the standout is Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of Kerala, whose leadership easily ranks amongst the foremost feats of governance of our times. We are used to envying the administrative competence of super-rich countries like Singapore and Taiwan (both are coping supremely well with Covid-19) but here?s an example that is home-grown in the subcontinent. We all much to learn, and gain from Kerala. In fact, that has been true for decades, because experts have long extolled the state?s remarkable record of maintaining high human development (on par with the developed countries) despite remaining relatively poor. In his 1992 *Earth in the Balance*, Al Gore wrote admiringly of ?the Kerala model? the rest of the world should adopt: land reforms, women?s empowerment, universal health care and education, and rigorously democratic political awareness. To that list, we must now add disaster management. The difference between what Vijayan has done, and almost everywhere else, is astonishing. After its first virus cases were registered in February, Kerala implemented contact tracing with route maps and patients etc Vijayan began to meet the press daily, to meticulously share all available information. He increased Internet connectivity, ramped up state production of sanitizer and face masks, and began home-delivering meals. I am yet to see any panic buying. In supermarkets, where only five shoppers are allowed at a time, people wait patiently for their turn, and those who are inside the store do their shopping quickly so that others don?t have to wait for long.? Can that heightened political consciousness be replicated elsewhere? I asked the brilliant young historian Manu Pillai, who said, ?I think it can. But it cannot be done through shortcuts or quick fixes, etc etc. Some fellow asked me whether I knew anything about lock down....I know a bit about saving the situation when I was working for WHO/UNICEF. There was a terrible outbreak of Cholera in Syria...the team went there. I went to Dar es Salaam where there was an outbreak Cholera. I am learning, there is a place for Goanet..... to help the vulnerable by sharing knowledge not panic. I am confident we will ride this storm. The Great Goan Saint...Joseph Vaz ....also left us with numerous examples of CARING Paul p <[email protected]> 12:19 PM (11 hours ago) to goanet, E, me, goanet Who is this Adolfo? Does he not understand lockdown? Does he not know that is a COVID-19 pandemic raging? Does he not know there are online newspapers? Prisoner in Quepem? Stay at home - you will stay alive to maybe read a newspaper next month.
