Generally, stroke can cause five types of disabilities:
• Paralysis, or problems controlling voluntary movement
• Disturbance of the senses, including pain
• Problems using or understanding language
• Problems with thinking and memory
• Emotional disturbances
7 stages of stroke recovery: Home rehabilitation is important
It is also imperative to know the severity of the stroke before deciding on the rehabilitation plan. There are seven recognised stages of stroke recovery through which most survivors progress through:
• Stage 1 – Flaccidity: No voluntary movement is observed.
• Stage 2 – Spasticity appears: Spasticity refers to the continuous contraction of muscles, which interferes with normal movement, speech and gait, and causes the arm or leg to make small involuntary jerky movements.
• Stage 3 – Increased spasticity: The e arm or leg becomes more spastic, and the muscles feel stiff and tight against external resistance.
• Stage 4– Decreased spasticity: Spasticity of the arm or leg decreases and the limb begins to move more easily.
• Stage 5 – Complex movement combinations: The movement of the limbs start becoming more coordinated and full movement begins to return.
• Stage 6 – Spasticity disappears: Muscle spasticity disappears and isolated joint movements are voluntary; however, spasticity may return if the patient is tired.
• Stage 7 – Normal function returns: Movements return to normal.
Each stage requires different types of approaches and exercises for rehabilitation.
Post Stroke Pain: Fake or Real?
https://youtu.be/fbM6C49YBPI
After Stroke This 1 Thing Is Key to Rehab Arm & Hand
https://youtu.be/_FsoZONjq8A
Best Hand Exercises for Stroke Patients at Home
https://youtu.be/i0JYsLyJEnE
Stretches For Hand Spasticity - Best Stroke Recovery Hand Exercises
https://youtu.be/dBWRuy_hdoc
Hand Recovery and Dexterity For Stroke, Injury & Musicians
https://youtu.be/d1g6YxQpJ-U
Passive Range Of Motion - How to Stretch Your Own Arm After Stroke
https://youtu.be/YReRjHbIngQ
Best Arm stretches after Stroke
https://youtu.be/YpwySCyAiZ4
Upper body Exercises after Stroke
https://youtu.be/ZCywA3DoExo
Best seated leg exercises
https://youtu.be/dRct62KQM3o
Seated Core Exercises
https://youtu.be/twZ1hnetOP8
Stroke: Exercise to Improve Walking
https://youtu.be/7O-MD5-DStA
Physical Therapist Shows How To Walk Correctly
https://youtu.be/-fD2TSL2s7I
Easy Leg Exercises for Stroke Patients (Guided by a Physical Therapist)
https://youtu.be/-rwby0zA6Vs
Stroke Recovery Arm Exercises: Shoulder
This video demonstrates post-stroke arm exercises. The focus of this video is the shoulder. And it is best for those with spasticity in the arm. Here are links to all the products I used in this video. I am an amazon affiliate and I would be so grateful if you use the link I provide :) Elbow immobilizer: https://amzn.to/2SDqaJWNylatex Strap (blue strap): https://amzn.to/2Yl93gZPilates ring:https://amzn.to/2SNqxln
https://youtu.be/0e4AcS763Fk
Spasticity: Best Stroke Arm Stretches
https://youtu.be/SpRx_G4nfz4
How to keep the arm straight when walking
https://youtu.be/gct-2dqLObs
Standing after stroke: Assisted and unassisted
https://youtu.be/rlrIa759sc0
Stroke Exercise: Regain knee control Part 2
https://youtu.be/YYP3Q9Ujf_0
Stroke Walking Exercise: Progression 3
https://youtu.be/su0i-iVwM4k
Advanced Balance and Walking Exercises
https://youtu.be/TnpiDHo8vjU
Standing and Walking after a Stroke: Progression Two
https://youtu.be/rliuArKMJm0
Arm Exercises for Stroke Patients (Best Tabletop Home Exercises)
https://youtu.be/kuuGlz_ddOM
Finger & Upper Extremity Stretches for Musicians
https://youtu.be/_jWxIPrBSdQ
Hand Exercises after Stroke
https://youtu.be/8gpQFbgqxUc
Stroke Rehabilitation: Use of electrical stimulation to help arm and hand recovery
Millennials now make up over a third of the workplace and overwhelmingly value flexibility in where, when and how to work. And top talent has been increasingly clustering in dense urban areas and has been unwilling to commute to suburban office parks
The pandemic virus has dramatically accelerated a trend towards remote work that was already underway over the last decade.With social distancing, many of the office workers have not seen their desks for some time.
BUSINESSES depend on people and knowledge to operate successfully.
Office space is the primary place where the transfer of knowledge occurs, and it is second only to salaries as the largest expense for most organisations.
And that is rapidly changing even before the outbreak of Covid-19.
The rapid development of technology provided a significant impact on the way one operates today.
One can work from any location so long the individual can have access to cell phone signal.
Young people entering the work force are not using office space the way their seniors did.
Big office is no longer the perk it once was. Instead, what is important to the young generation is the quality of their interaction.
They increasingly are evolving today’s workplace by defining how, when, where, and with whom they want to work.
Meanwhile, the pandemic virus has dramatically accelerated a trend towards remote work that was already underway over the last decade.
With social distancing, many of the office workers have not seen their desks for some time.
Even when coronavirus lockdowns have started to ease, there may be fewer desks to return to.
Many may prefer to work from home out of caution or convenience. And businesses facing a sudden need to cut costs, it now appears that property portfolios look like a good place to start, especially with the businesses having adapted to remote set-ups.
By now it is clear that the pandemic virus will change the way we work in offices – perhaps indefinitely.
Less certain is the impact these physical and structural changes will have on corporate culture.
Anthony Dass
Besides, corporate culture can be described as the warm feeling employees have or the high expectations of a company’s management team.
Corporate culture is the essences that builds the loyalty and trust workers have for their employer and defines the nature of an organisation.
Up until recently, it was built within the confines of a company’s office.
But the pandemic virus is likely to bring about a turning point in corporate culture as businesses contend with a more remote workforce that lack the ability to connect in one room or even, in some circumstances, face-to-face.
While it may keep workers safe, it will likely feel more unproductive, less connected and perhaps involve fewer chances for employees to grow.
And so, the office of the future post-pandemic may resemble more of a place out of a movie, leaving some to worry this may have a massive impact on employee morale and corporate culture.
One aspect about work post-pandemic that appears to be universally agreed upon is that employees are unlikely to come back all at once.
They need to stage it in teams or staggered. This may create frustration.
It is going to be a long haul and will be difficult to keep people’s spirits up in the long-term, especially those who have been impacted by the illness.
There is risk of experiencing inefficiencies of working from home and missing the connectivity and productivity an office environment.
The daily work environment, the daily interaction, the social energy that is created and makes working for a company part and parcel of why one wants to get up every day and give it all is something that just cannot replicate working from home.
But others believe the new normal will be more positive.
And so, it is important to extend the office culture into the work-from-home culture.
By encouraging casual Zoom coffee breaks to check in and see how people are doing, or getting creative with birthday celebrations and events that might have played a big role in the company culture pre-Covid are ways to improve corporate culture.
And the question now is whether we need office?
The answer is, yes, but with a greater focus on flexibility, wellness, and collaboration.
As employees increasingly have a choice of where to work, the office must both coexist and compete with the safety of staying home, the comfort of a favorite cafe, or the convenience of a coworking space.
The result is much more variability in when and how offices are used along with increased employee expectations of the workplace.
Millennials now make up over a third of the workplace and overwhelmingly value flexibility in where, when and how to work. And top talent has been increasingly clustering in dense urban areas and has been unwilling to commute to suburban office parks.
Employees have come to expect the same level of technology in their personal and work lives.
For corporations, this poses a complex challenge. How to cost-effectively provide the right kind of office space. When and where it is needed. Solving this problem creates a wealth of opportunity for property-tech in several broad areas.
First is on the core needs where it creates big opportunities for innovation and allow rethinking of how building controllers are built, installed, and programmed with an emphasis on ease of installation and automated control.
Next is on the security systems control access to offices, elevators, turnstiles, data centres, and other secured spaces.
Focus will also have to be on the space needs.
Facing the twin pressures of providing high-quality space in expensive urban centers and supporting employees with flexibility in where they work, companies need new tools to understand how space is used, manage utilisation, and provide new locations cost effectively.
And lastly it is on the productivity needs. Engaged and inspired employees are more productive and drive better financial results.
The workplace plays a key role in employee engagement and employee productivity.
Workplace apps will extend to focus on even more aspects of our workday including fostering collaboration, building community and providing “quantified self” feedback on how we work.
The bottom line is that while Covid-19 has disrupted the real estate business today, it will largely accelerate trends and create more opportunities for property-tech as businesses reopen.
There are opportunities from broadly applicable core needs to higher-value productivity needs. And successful companies will emerge.
Office would have a future, albeit in different forms.
We’re almost well into the third quarter of 2020 – have you made headway in any of this year’s financial priorities and goals? Or perhaps you have been thrown off guard by the state of affairs in by the Covid-19? In a challenging environment like now, it is even more crucial to sit down and do a critical review of your latest financial status.
TIME flies by quickly when you’re going about your daily grind. We’re almost well into the third quarter of 2020 – have you made headway in any of this year’s financial priorities and goals?
Or perhaps you have been thrown off guard by the state of affairs in by the Covid-19? In a challenging environment like now, it is even more crucial to sit down and do a critical review of your latest financial status.
Loss of livelihood, pay cuts, unemployment, business closures, and a looming global recession – this is the trail of devastation left by a virus which has played havoc around the globe.
Interesting enough, if this health crisis is not enough to shake you into action to take charge of your finances, then what will?
According to the Oxford English dictionary, procrastination is defined as a postponement, “often with the sense of deferring though indecision, when early action would have been preferable, ” or as “defer[ing] action, especially without good reason.”
Throughout my experience as a licensed financial advisor, I have met many people who procrastinated over reviewing their financial status, let alone in growing their wealth. There are many reasons for this. Some lack the knowledge on where to begin, while others may cite the poor state of economy or our poor tax regime. However, the bigger reason usually lies in our tendency to procrastinate.
Procrastination is one of mankind’s biggest weaknesses – we have all procrastinated doing something important at some point. But in the world of finance, procrastination can result in an opportunity loss to mitigate risk and in growing wealth – sometimes an opportunity which can never be recovered. After all, it takes time for any investment to compound into a significant figure.
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In this article, I’m going to highlight some of the common reasons people use to put off taking actions on their financial matters.
> “I don’t have enough time to plan and invest”
This is a common reason people often say, when putting off investing. In today’s economy, most households require both spouses to work full-time jobs in order to afford the lifestyle that they desire. In the office, you’re stressing about deadlines, projects to complete, and deadlines to meet.
At home you’re likely seeing to your family, social life, and chores, and any leftover time is probably spent away vacationing to rejuvenate so you can rinse and repeat. Add kids to the equation, and you’ll barely have any time left to breathe.
Who really has the time to spend to research, plan and invest? After all, you still have 20 years headstart till your retirement, you should be able to put it off for later, right?
Wrong. Pushing things for later is comfortable, as you convince yourself that it will get done eventually. However, as most of us know by now, later is a concept that is never ending. There is always a “later” to convince yourself about. Before you know it, too much time would have passed and you’ll have too little time to play catch up to achieve the financial goals you could have well achieved if you started earlier.
What you need to do: Set a date and time and clear your schedule. If being at home is too much of a distraction with the family present, then find a place where you can be isolated to focus on your financial planning. Alternatively, outsource these efforts to an independent financial advisor who can review your financial status and manage the wealth for you. > “I don’t have enough money to plan and invest”
Most people don’t realise it, but having enough money is a matter of perspective. If you don’t have enough money to invest when you’re earning RM5,000 a month, do you think you will have enough to invest when you’re earning RM50,000 a month? Believe it or not, I have met several people earning around RM50,000 or more per month and still lament about not having enough to save and invest.
We always think along the lines of “if only we make more money”, but once we actually start making more money, our expenses and lifestyle will also go up a notch.
The famous Parkinson’s Law coined by C. Northcote Parkinson in his book The Law and The Profits illustrates this concept best. The law says that work expands to fill the time that is allocated to complete it. In other words, if given a 24-hour deadline, a 20-minute job will take a day to complete.
He goes on to say that individual expenditure does not only rise to meet income but it tends to surpass it, and probably always will. So, if you’re waiting for a time when you feel you have enough money to save and invest, that time will never come.
What you need to do: Take a long hard look at your expenses. This is critical since we are now in challenging economic times. Mindfully track your spending habits for a month and cut back on luxuries that you can live without. If it helps, set up a standing instruction with your bank to automatically transfer a portion of your salary into another bank account. Use that to start investing. Every small portion helps, so don’t think that cutting back on a small luxury is insignificant.
> “I don’t really need to invest”
People won’t admit to thinking this, but they do. This fallacy of not needing to invest stems from the fact that when they retire someday, they will have their EPF savings to rely on. Technically, if you are earning a comfortable amount and do not make any EPF withdrawals before you retire, you may be right in thinking this.
However, this is hardly the case. EPF has reported that more than two-thirds (68%) of EPF members aged 54 had less than RM50,000 in EPF savings, while only 18% of its members had the minimum savings target of RM240,000 in their account by 55. This amounts to a monthly withdrawal of RM1,000 to cover basic needs for 20 years – sufficient if you want to live a basic retirement lifestyle, but nowhere near what is needed for a comfortable retirement in a middle-class lifestyle.
So if you’re thinking of relying mainly on your EPF savings, think again. Your EPF should act as an additional retirement fund on top of your other retirement savings, instead of being the only pillar in your retirement plan.
What you need to do: Start planning now for additional retirement savings. Before you invest, determine the lifestyle that you want to live when you’re retired and calculate how much you’d roughly need over the span of your retirement. Don’t know where to start?
Use a holistic financial planning app, like iWealth, to do a comprehensive calculation on your retirement and other major financial goals. Remember to factor in inflation.
While half of the year has flown by just like that, it’s never too late to examine your financial health and take the necessary steps to protect and grow your wealth.
Over the years I’ve shared many articles to inspire middle class folk like yourselves to take control of your financial destiny.
I certainly hope this knowledge has proven useful and relevant to your personal circumstances.
However, I also hope that you have begun putting into place some of these practices. Today, you may have gotten a better idea of what has been stopping you from investing properly.
Procrastination is a very human trait – but if you’re able to identify what’s been holding you back and take the necessary measures to monitor yourself and counter this, you’ll already have the upper hand on your future.
Remember, true power comes from knowledge. But knowledge without action, is useless.
During good times, there may not be an urgency to act. But we have now arrived at an unprecedented juncture where there will be a cost or consequence to our inaction. If this is not the time to take the bull by the horns, then when?
Embrace multi-asset investments in volatile market
Investors will need to undertake dynamic multi-asset allocation for managing their investment portfolio in the current low interest rate environment.
https://youtu.be/ZkYNN4daZR4
What is multi asset investing?
https://youtu.be/vbWrn58JAJ8
Why multi asset investing?
https://youtu.be/hoemEAMqNJA
Meanwhile, Michael Chang Wai Sing, chief investment officer for fixed income at RHB Asset Management (M), said investors could consider having an exposure in fixed income instruments such as bonds as well as foreign exchange (forex) instruments.
“Asian credits are a sweet spot as Asia, especially China, is recovering and is expected to recover further into the rest of the year and into 2021, ” - Michael Chang Wai Sing
PETALING JAYA: Investors should undertake a dynamic multi-asset allocation in managing their investment portfolio, in view of the current low interest rate and volatile market environment.
Diversification into the appropriate asset classes is key in managing risks and optimising returns, especially when uncertainty is rife in the market, according to panellists at the “Investing in Volatile Times: Stocks, Fixed Income or Multi-Asset?” webinar organised by RHB Asset Management.
According to Schroder Investment Management (S) Ltd South-East Asia head of multi-asset product Reginald Tan, investing in dividend yield stocks offer good and stable returns, at a time when the equity market is volatile.
While corporate earnings have taken a hit as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and more companies have turned conservative in managing their cash, Tan believed that this is set to change moving forward as the global economy recovers.
“Companies experienced a short-term hit over the last one or two quarters due to Covid-19 and there were dividend cuts, but going into 2021, we will definitely see a rise in dividends.
“You cannot conserve cash forever, ” he said.
Tan added further that a low interest rate environment and a pick-up in economic activity are positive for high dividend yield stocks.
Meanwhile, Michael Chang Wai Sing, chief investment officer for fixed income at RHB Asset Management (M), said investors could consider having an exposure in fixed income instruments such as bonds as well as foreign exchange (forex) instruments.
Fixed income instruments are low-risk in nature and typically offer better returns than any average fixed deposits in banks, particularly at a time when interest rates have been lowered.
“Asian credits are a sweet spot as Asia, especially China, is recovering and is expected to recover further into the rest of the year and into 2021, ” said Chang.
However, he cautioned that investors should be selective as they invest into the credit space.
“There will also be opportunities in the forex space. If you have a certain view on forex, you can also use that to enhance your returns for the fixed income, ” stated Chang.
As for the opportunities in the equities universe, RHB Islamic International Asset Management Bhd CEO Mohd Farid Kamarudin told StarBiz that investors should consider stocks in sectors that are capable of evolving and adapting to the new economic environment. A potential sector is information technology (IT).
“Of course, we can also look at companies from different sectors that provide services to the IT-related players, ” he said.
Moving forward, Tan from Schroder said that investors will need to practice caution in the stock market, amid the rally that has continued since mid-March this year.
“A double-dip (in the stock market) is possible as fears of Covid-19 remains to be felt and investors engage in profit-taking.
“However, there are expectations that politicians, central bankers and governments will step in to help paper over the cracks, ” he said.
Over the past several months, Bursa Malaysia has enjoyed a rally fuelled by liquidity and a boom retail investor participation. This was in line with the rally witnessed across key stock exchanges globally.
Bursa Malaysia’s bellwether index, FBM KLCI, has surged by almost 30% since the year-to-date low in March after the market tumbled on Covid-19-induced panic.
Yesterday, the index gained by 1.07% or 16.78 points to 1,583.5 points as investor sentiment seemed to be boosted by Bank Negara’s 25 basis point-cut in the Overnight Policy Rate a day earlier.
Protesters raise their fists as they stand on the base of a statue of Christopher Columbus in front of City Hall during an "International March for Black Lives" protest against police brutality in downtown Columbus, Ohio. - Protests continue across the nation over police brutality and systemic racism have taken place following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. (Photo by SETH HERALD / AFP)
https://youtu.be/TdomoLSwoqc
WASHINGTON: Protesters in the US city of Baltimore pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus on Saturday, local media reported, the latest monument to be toppled in anti-racism demonstrations.
Statues of figures connected to colonialism and slavery have been ripped from their plinths in the United States and around the world since Black Lives Matter protests were sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May.
Footage published by the Baltimore Sun showed protesters using ropes to pull down the statue of Columbus – the Italian navigator who reached the Americas in 1492 – near the city's Little Italy district and rolling it into the Inner Harbor on the night of July 4.
Long hailed as the so-called discoverer of "The New World," Columbus is considered by many to have spurred years of genocide against indigenous groups in the Americas. He is regularly denounced in a similar way to Civil War generals of the pro-slavery South.
President Donald Trump earlier mentioned the sailor in his speech to mark the July 4 holiday, when Americans typically celebrate their 1776 declaration of independence from Britain.
"Together, we will fight for the American dream, and we will defend, protect, and preserve the American way of life which began in 1492 when Columbus discovered America," he said in an address in which he railed against protesters demanding racial justice.
"We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and the people who, in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing," he said.
"We will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children."
The president last month signed an executive order pledging to enforce prosecution for protesters who vandalise public memorials, promising "long prison terms" for "lawless acts against our Great Country!"
A statue of Columbus was taken down in San Francisco last month because the explorer's actions "do not deserve to be venerated," city officials said, and another was removed from California's state capital Sacramento.
Elsewhere, a statue of Belgium's King Leopold II – who ruled over a brutal regime in Africa – was removed in the port city of Antwerp and a monument to slave trader Edward Colston was ripped down in Bristol in the United Kingdom. - AFP
THE global start-up economy generates nearly US$3 trillion in value, similar to the gross domestic product of a G7 economy.
Seven of the Top 10 largest companies in the world are in technology. This is the highest concentration of any industry sector among the top global companies and 2019 saw close to Us$300bil in venture capital investments.
Silicon Valley remains in the top spot for start-up ecosystems, followed by New York, London, Beijing and Boston.
This was revealed in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 (GSER2020) report by Startup Genome. It was based on data from one million companies across 150 cities worldwide.
By the end of 2019, things were getting less rosy and the Covid-19 pandemic battered it further. This caused start-ups to experience a drop in consumer demand and venture capital funding that resulted in a wave of layoffs. Tech giants like Wework and the stable of unicorns funded by Softbank began to falter.
Every crisis creates opportunities. During the Great Recession of 2007-2009, 50 unicorns including Facebook, Linkedin, Palantir and Dropbox were created.
A major beneficiary of this democratisation of tech is the Asia-pacific region, which has gone from having 20% of top ecosystems in 2012 to 30%, the report said.
Of the 11 new ecosystems, six are from the Asia-pacific region.
The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has partnered with Startup Genome to benchmark Kuala Lumpur’s performance versus 250 ecosystems globally.
Kuala Lumpur is ranked in the Top 10 emerging ecosystems in performance, and top 20 emerging ecosystems in talent.
Malaysia has positioned itself as an ideal locale for start-ups, with low costs, high quality of living and talent, fasttracked visas and government support, according to MDEC.
Hong Kongers and the West have forgotten that Hong Kong was a forced ‘concession’ territory from China at gunpoint. The colonial history books that Hong Kongers want to preserve portray China as corrupt, evil and oppressive, as if Britain occupied Hong Kong for democratic purposes.
https://youtu.be/WIcP7pNtmmA
What you should know about China's new national security law for Hong Kong
https://youtu.be/_kVfsXQM01k
https://youtu.be/mrqOHpP5524
Has Democracy ever existed in HK under British colonial rule?英国学者：回归前的香港有民主吗？Martin Jacques
https://youtu.be/L7BEGpfuVi8
STATUES represent memories of the past, both glory and shame. With Bristol taking down the statue of slave trader, later philanthropist Edward Colston (1636-1721), US protestors have started taking down statues of Civil War or slave-tainted personalities. Law and order President Trump want to protect statues against desecration.
Who is right?
History contains more icons of past glories and few memories of bad losses. One of the worst defeats in British military history is remembered in the comic phrase “up the Khyber Pass” when in 1842 British forces retreated out of Afghanistan and lost 16,000 troops and civilians, with only one survivor. Up the Khyber Pass means today an expletive project without an exit strategy, blunders both the Russians and Americans repeated in Afghanistan.
The prestigious magazine Foreign Affairs devoted a whole issue in January/february 2018 on how countries have grappled with their past brutality. Museums and public education help explain why these events occur and how we should deal with them as a community. Remembering is painful, discussion is difficult and blaming deepens the divide.
All individuals, families and nations have blunders, tragedies and scandals that they prefer to forget. They deal with these in their own way.
Some forget, others hide their shame, a few atone for their past crimes by engaging in philanthropy or doing good deeds, and smart ones hire PR firms to make them look good. But memories and instant history that we watch unfold today are over-whelming. Today’s eight billion smartphone/cameras record all events real-time.
Reducing complex events and trends as tweets and soundbites paint the world as false binaries of black and white, good versus evil. Instead of finding solutions to the mess we are in, quasi-religious emotion over-rides rational process. So we delete or cancel what we do not like or blame them on someone else. Such emotion is understandable at a time of pandemic, shock and trauma. New York Times columnist David Brooks identified what America is going through as five epic crises all at once - bungling the pandemic; dealing with racism; political polarisation; quasi-religious struggle; and economic depression. From this side of the Pacific, it looks more like America going through her own “cultural revolution” – a rite of passage for every community in times of profound change.
Since July 1997, Hong Kong is still going through her painful cultural revolution.
Under the One Country Two Systems philosophy, no colonial statues or street names were changed. But Hong Kongers and the West have forgotten that Hong Kong was a forced “concession” territory from China at gunpoint.
The colonial history books that Hong Kongers want to preserve portray China as corrupt, evil and oppressive, as if Britain occupied Hong Kong for democratic purposes. Today, Britain is haunted also by her slavery history, just as Australian aborigines, New Zealand Maoris and Canadian native Americans bear the brunt of post-colonial injustices, with serious social problems that the elites have ignored for years.
How can Americans condemn others’ human right abuses, when America has the highest number of people in jail, of which the majority are African Americans and Hispanics? None of us are so clean of sins that we can morally judge others.
In other words, if your memory of what happened is very different from my memory, how can we communicate with each? And if I delete what you consider an important statue that represents to you very important values and meaning, who judges who is right?
Behind this deep social divide is the debate over the use of face masks. Throughout East Asia, there are few cultural taboos against wearing masks when the pandemic started.
Indeed, East Asians avoided much of the pandemic spread because most people instinctively wore masks because they understood the dual benefits of protecting self and others.
In the US, however, there is aversion to wearing masks, beginning with US President Trump as if it is a challenge to individual ego and right against any state interference in individual freedom.
The pandemic and the economic lockdown have put this conflict between individual “good” or right that leads to public harm. Individual freedoms or rights are not absolute at the expense of others.
As New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says in “Refusing to Wear a Mask is like Driving Drunk”: it is “reckless, selfish behaviour that imperils the economy and can kill or endanger innocent people.”
You get double whammy of hurting the economy and lives at the same time.
In “Covid-19 and the End of Individualism”, Cambridge economist Diane Coyle reminded us that humans are social beings whose every decision affects other people.
To monitor and evaluate this interactive and interdependent risk requires the state to monitor where the communal risks lie, using tools such as contact tracing apps.
But these apps can also be used for commercial or national security purposes.
The real problem is that the public good versus individual privacy and rights issue is extremely controversial with few good answers. Increasingly, we become aware that an individual or virus can take down an entire economy, supply chain or defense system. The marginal costs of such a viral attack is very small compared to the ensuing disaster. This pandemic alone cost US$10 trillion this year and perhaps US$30 trillion to 2023. Deleted memories that interrupt our social discussion on how to cope with the post-covid world is far more complex than we could have imagined. What civilisational model fits an individual and the communal good in this age of climate change, social inequality, disruptive technology and intense geopolitical rivalry?
This civilisational conversation is only just beginning. Every family, community and nation engage in their internal conversation in different ways, because all have painful memories to resolve. Some do it through mega-phones, shouting slogans at each other, others do it quietly below the radar screen.
Our conversations with our loved ones, parents, spouses, partners, friends, are often conducted through silences rather than outright open quarrels.
But if we are to remain a family, community or nation, that conversation must be conducted, however painful and difficult.
We must find the common threads that bind us, or else they will break us.
The UK is about to leave the EU. It should make itself stronger and more independent instead of being a US' henchman like Australia. Will the UK have a future by turning itself into another Australia?
Media files received on WhatsApp can occupy a lot of memory on our smartphones.
Deleting media files from WhatsApp’s memory also erases them from your phone memory.
However, this trick can be used only on Android smartphones.
WhatsApp is arguably one of the most popular social messaging apps in the world. Every day millions of users exchange messages on WhatsApp in the form of text, videos, voice recordings, GIFs, stickers, location, documents and more. These files often end up taking a lot of space on our smartphones. And if you use the Facebook-owned social messaging app frequently and are actively involved in a number of groups, it can also lead to WhatsApp media files and documents increasingly filling up your phone memory.
This problem can be exacerbated if you are already running low on phone memory. Thankfully, WhatsApp offers you an easy technique using which you can delete media files and messages from not just the app's memory but also from the phone memory. This can help you free a lot of space on your smartphone, particularly, if you are running low on phone memory.
But here is a thing. This trick only works in case of Android smartphones and it won't work if you are using an iPhone. So, while you can free app space and iCloud space, you will have to manually delete the videos and messages from the Photos app of your iPhone, if you want to free your iPhone memory.
If you own an Android phone, here are steps you need to follow to clear WhatsApp media cache:
- Tap on three dots on the top right corner of the app.
- Tap on the Settings option.
- Now tap on Storage Usage option.
- Now you will see all your WhatsApp contacts in the order of the memory that they consume on your smartphone.
- Tap on a contact then tap on Free Up Space option.
- Now you will see a breakdown of files that you have shared with that contact along with the space that the contact is consuming.
- Select the data like images, videos and voice messages that you want to delete.
- Tap on Delete Items option.
- Tap on Clear Messages to confirm.
The videos and messages will automatically be deleted from the gallery.
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