Count the Blessings

It has been 4 months since we came back from UK. The transition is rather uneasy. I have been having headache most of the days due to hot weather. And reverse culture is a real challenge. Shall talk about that next time. The recent progress in Malaysia is so heart wrenching. Government battle against Covid is rather political and pathetically fall short of being evidence-based in policy making. Looking at numbers of Covid death cases each day, as well as suicidal cases, I can't help but to see it as “preventable death”, if only the government act as a state member instead of politician, some lives could be spared. As the Covid situation gets worse, we went into another lockdown, we can see anxiety kicks in again, many are facing financial difficulties, some could barely sustain their business, some run out of food supply. Heart broken to see many are suffering. Injustice clearly seen everywhere , whether is the unfair treatment of contract doctor, politicians double standard, discr...

No doubt decision of some country in legalised prostitution and abortion had result in positive impact of the population health. Incidence of HIV infection, STD, maternity mortality, unsafe abortion decreased successfully. Hence, someone pronounce it as Public Health success. Yet, I choose to define health in a holistic way, an appropriate Public Health view. WHO says that health is well-being of physical, mental and society, Hippocrates even mentioned that health include the optimum state of spiritual. By legalised these ethical debating issue, it merely cope with the tip of the physical health problem ice berg, not the root, and not to even mention the ice berg of mental, society and spiritual. In apparent, they won the war, but it's a total defeat I would say. Things would be different if they intervene much earlier, and maybe they do not have to give in. We need to keep to evaluating the circumstance by predicting the possible negative outcome and be quick enough to deal w...

Learn this from today's paper, India is the world most well known surrogates transaction site, with it's lower cost, abundant surrogates mother and less stringent legal guidelines. I hardly imagine the number of women that had been exploited and the quality of their life. Surrogate transaction is legalised by India government a decade ago, and it is so prominent that, couples from all around the world will come here for that. Some are infertile partners, some due to wives refusal on pregnancy and some are homosexual partner. Destitute women in India turn to the offer of being a surrogates mother for monetary purpose, and it exposes them to risky pregnancy if they are above 35 and have a high parity of more than 6, which neither they are the practitioner will cautiously look into. The law and regulation is certainly not rigid enough to protect them. Neither to protect the surrogates children from being misuse of terrorism, prostitution and other unethical procedures. T...

"Ideal consumption maximize utility? Why not sacrificial contribution maximize utility?" The demographer able to identify the 7billionth person is goin to be born in a village in India, i'm truly impressed on how precise he can be. However, the drastic exponential population growth overwhelmed me even more, in some sense it's a bit scary. The ugly truth of population exponential growth had been posted by scientist I think as early as half century ago, but it didn't attract much attention from the public, guess the incentives from the economy has a masking effect on tht. As a matter of fact, the main concern may not be whether the resources are sufficient or not, but whether it's used wisely and fairly. Obviously the consumption pattern diverse greatly especially among different economic status. In another word, the unreasonable consumption has result in wastage while other are greatly in lack. A case in point, an American food consumption rate can be as hig...