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  By Tom Choy Vancouver, BC   “ We must all help one another or all perish together.”   Carl Sagan   Time Magazine recently had an article “Lessons We Learned from the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.” People were also warned to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays only with their immediate family. Some of those who did not observe this advice indeed caught the flu virus.   People were also told to wear masks and social distance. So what Dr. Anthony Fauci of the US Infectious Diseases Center and Dr. Bonnie Henry, the Health Officer of British Columbia are not really original ideas. They have proven effective in the past and are still relevant today.   There was no vaccine developed in 1918 compared to today’s operation warp speed vaccine that seemed to have met the deadline of end of 2020 to deliver the first batch of vaccine. Without a vaccine in 1918, the question is, how did the virus disappear? Herd immunity developed when 70% o...

  by Tom Choy Vancouver, BC                                                                       I spotted Wolf Blitzer on CNN donning this teeshirt that shouts "THE WORLD NEEDS JOURNALISTS," and it sort of piqued my interest. Is there a shortage of journalists? Is the demand for journalists vanishing? Hossein Derakshan, a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab and a research fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center said "the news is dying, but journalism will not--and should not." I used to have NewYork Times subscription but with the advent and shall we say, saturation of social media, from Twitter to Facebook to Instagram, one's sources of news can be obtained without spending hundreds of dollars. The business model of major news outlets like New York Times, Washington Post a...

                                                   by TOM CHOY     Vancouver, BC Canada                                                           " This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters."    1 John 3:16 I am still feeling lucky having a rare chance to help other people through the Vancouver Salvation soup kitchen program. Our Ateneo Alumni Association of BC volunteered a few alumni members to help prepare the Thanksgiving dinner for over a  hundred people in Downtown Vancouver. I also participated in the Richmond Salvation Army branch at Gi...