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For 2.5 years since the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, people have felt extreme fear. Reason, rationality, basic math and logic have taken a severe beating. This book documents the math murder in the mad fear largely manufactured by relentless propaganda in the media. It is meant for those who want to reflect on the planet-wide panic surrounding Covid-19, to examine if it was justified, to sift truth from propaganda, to learn how we can possibly prevent such mistakes in the future. It is especially meant for the next generation, who were affected least by the virus itself, yet affected most by the irrational measures in the name of public health. They must know how the adults on the planet abandoned reason for madness, rationality for fear, and basic math for obvious absurdity. Most parts are meant to be understandable with only a secondary-school or high-school mathematics background.
About the author
Bhaskaran Raman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has a BTech in CSE from IIT Madras (1997), an MS+PhD in CS from U.C.Berkeley (2002). Since the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, he has closely followed data and statistics related to Covid-19 and the world's response to the same. He has been vocal against extreme and harmful measures such as lockdowns, school closures, vaccine mandates, and inadequately tested jabs for children. He maintains the website "Understand, Unclog, Unpanic, Unscare, Unlock (U5) India" https://tinyurl.com/u5india . In December 2021, he launched the campaign "Happy 2022, Happy for Kids Too", advocating for a normal and enjoyable childhood for all children, at https://happy22kids.org . He is one of the founding members of the "Universal Health Organisation" (UHO), whose goal is to promote transparency, empowerment, and accountability in public health: https://uho.org.in .
