Pooh: I love honey. Don't you Piglet? Piglet: But, Pooh, I brought honey for you last night. You did not eat it! Pooh: Ah, I already have had two jars of honey by the time you came. Does Pooh-bear really love honey? If he really loved it, he would have been able to eat it even after having two jars. I know, some of you may be thinking it is simple. It is the famous law of diminishing return. When you have more of something that does not give you as much fun/money any more! Why does that happen? Because we no more crave for it. Because we feel saturated. Because it does not feel as good anymore. Ancient oriental philosophers took this argument to the next level. They suggested that we do not love or hate things or people or events. We love or hate the sensations created in our senses due to these things or people or events. When Pooh has had two jars of honey, the next jar is not going to create the same sensation as the first jar. So does Pooh love honey? No ! Pooh lov...
Even the ever-optimistic and ever-composed Dr Fauci says that expecting a vaccine in 18 months is putting our hopes high. ( https://scroll.in/article/961746/dr-faucis-belief-that-well-have-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-18-months-is-optimistic-but-not-improbable ) Some European agencies are calling this period (when we have to live in this new-normal, without a vaccine) as the Covid-19 “echo period”. Echo period is a period that is going to last for sometime before the pandemic's last reverberations go down. Using masks and sanitizer and physical distancing are not the only things that need to be followed carefully. In this article, we briefly discuss an important issue that we need to be aware of during this echo period. This is regarding the air-conditioning systems we use in public and office places. Action Item : Minimize the use of wall/ceiling mounted split air-conditioner units in public/office buildings. Issues - When we say split AC here, we mean the systems which h...