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Negative Emotions are death of intelligence

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Ever been angry at something or someone and regretted after sometime. It happens every time. In every situation where we become angry if instead we maintained our calm then we could have handled the situation much better.  Negative emotions are shortcuts that evolution has created in our brain to protect against  awful stupidity. They are our shortcut to correct thinking process.  So when you feel some negative emotions like anger/ sadness/ anxiety, these are triggers in our brain to to take a quick boiler plate decision. But we should instead use them as trigger to think  further and work further on solving a particular problem.  Angry: If somebody does you wrong you get angry. But most of time shouting or physical violence only causes you harm and instead of solving only increases the problem. Instead if you react calmly you are much more likely to solve your problems.  Here I am not advocating you to reply back. If  you really need to slap or abuse,...

Omnicron surge

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Within one-two months , Omnicron would cause largest ever surge of Covid cases in India. As Omnicron is A. Much more transmissible than Delta , previously the fastest variant of covid [11, 12, 13] Spreads 3-5 times faster than delta. Recall how fast delta spread in India. Covid cases will explode like tsuami the week it decides to explode. Covid is also spread by asymptomatic people.  B. Has unprecedented level of immune evasion. [3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14] Anybody who is not both infected plus vaccinated will get infected by this virus. In a lab study they observed that for most of 2 dose vaccinated people and only covid recovered people, levels of antibodies was not sufficient to protect from symptomatic infection. Protection from severe infection and from death would be still there. But reduced compared to delta. UK scientists measured vaccine effectiveness against omnicron for symptomatic infection. Two does of vaccine does not provide any protection Reason for not being as bad as del...