Doesn’t exist! Why? Because lex implies it relates to words. The proper term is dyscalculia.
I had a friend that thought he had it – maybe. What he described was a condition where two numbers often got exchanged in his head.
Remember the Mayan calendar idea? 2012 was going to be the end of the world. The apocalypse that ended the world for all of us. But what if that Mayan had dyscalculia and he mixed up the last two numbers? Did he really mean 2021 was the end of the world?
I’ve been following the reports on the new variant of coronavirus. There is a lot not known at the moment – there is a wide range of possibilities.
The good news is the vaccine should work – the new virus is 99 percent the same as the old virus. In any case a new vaccine can be produced reasonably quickly if it oes not.
Better news – it sounds like the new variation does not make people sicker.
But the ability to spread is still not clearly understood. The worst case estimates make bad reading. If they are right then even a total lockdown will not bring the R value below 1. And that will mean it will be hard to roll out the vaccine in time to protect people. It will mean a higher death rate than we have seen so far. We already see thinking along these lines with the new shielding rules in the Tier 4 areas.
But with a mixture of lockdown, shielding and vaccine roll out we can probably expect the end of the worst part of this by Easter. It might not be pleasant for the next few months, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
No – the Mayan probably didn’t have dyscalculia.