Archives for October 2021

I did my first ever YouTube Live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session yesterday, and received a great response. The idea was to try and answer questions on stock market investing (except on specific stocks), investing process, basic personal finance, starting up, failing, blogging, minimalism, and living a good life.

Here is the video of the entire session, with timestamps, so that you can jump straight to your topics of choice.

I plan to do such AMA sessions at regular intervals. If you wish to know about them and join them, just subscribe to my YouTube channel here.

If you are not able to watch the video above, click here to watch.

China was saturated with disabling infectious diseases near the end of 1940s. Tuberculosis, plague, cholera, polio, malaria, smallpox, and hookworm were killing a lot of people in the country. More than 11 million people were infected with the water-borne liver parasite diseases. Cholera epidemics raged through the population freely, some years killing tens of thousands. Infant mortality was as high as 300 per 1000 live births.

The country was going through a political and social transition, and thus creating a national public health system and eradicating entrenched diseases was an obvious first step in improving the lives of its people.

The Chinese Communist government began initiating massive vaccination campaigns against the plague and smallpox, vaccinating nearly 300 million people. Sanitation infrastructures for clean drinking water and waste disposal were implemented throughout the country.