Thursday, July 30, 2020

Is the Use of Cell Phone a good tool on mitigating pandemics?

The cell phone is a tiny computer.
It can be used to spread fake news.
Equally, it can be used as a tool to gather data and emerging trends, globally.
Let me start with a current trend of journalists.
I was appalled by the female representative's aggressive behaviour towards the American Attorney General.
Politicians trying to steam role public servants should be deprecated.
Equally CNN journalists were appalling and obsessed with medical matters, that they knew very little. 

 
Opinions and facts are two different things. 

 
Manipulating data is the name of the game (fed up with the useful drug chloroquine, that even the malaria parasite has developed resistance  to ). 


I am appalled by even the medical guys (except perhaps, Sunjaya Gupta) who appear on television.
By the way, BBC weather reporting is excellent and the all guard of mature journalists coming up presenting news (without Coranavirus and Politics) in an enjoyable way.
Good example to all Americans who have become paranoid with politics. 


Coming to the cell phone I have few reservations.
My telephone is just now monitored by Google, while I am blogging this piece.
All most all my blogging is not inflammatory (a pathological term I love as a medical man in retirement). 

I try to inject some scientific notion to good journalism.
My obsession is education and gathering as much valuable data as possible.
The privacy of my opinion is very important to me.
The accuracy of data (not faked) is vital.
The third and foremost how tech- giants use these data for manipulation  of their own agenda and using one sided argument and no balance in reporting. 


Professor Edwards De Bono's lateral thinking come to my mind.
The data get muddled by its own data, is my jargon phrase. 

 
By the way, coronavirus has made me to come out of self-imposed hibernation. 


A balancing act is of paramount importance.