How to save yourself from corona, and save the world!
During corona time, the best is not to step out; in case you
go out, use hand sanitizer frequently; stay away from others
6 feet; don't touch face, eyes, nose, mouth, and if in self-
doubt, carry a stress ball; wash hands with soap thoroughly
on return - You are safe, and others too. Sure!
These are IndiaTravelTimes.com's life-saving tips:-
Stay at home and don't step out;
Avoid non-essential travel;
Avoid crowded places like markets;
Avoid crowding at hospitals/clinics for minor ailments and postpone elective
surgeries till situation improves.
Keep a distance of 6 feet from others, whosoever - This is No 1 precaution
Wash hands thoroughly and frequently with soap and water for 20 seconds
or use hand sanitizer frequently (also known as handrubs) (SEE below).
Don't touch any object/surface touched by others like packets, bags, door
knobs, water taps, lift panels, computer accessories, currencies etc. Else,
take remedial measures like hand cleaning without delay.
Don't touch your face, nose, eyes, mouth with unwashed hands. This is most
important. Corona's target is the lungs through the throat/nostrils with its
droplets.
Sneeze or cough into a tissue or folded elbow to prevent spreading the virus.
You may be carrying the virus asymptomatically: reason why corona is on a
killing spree.
Disinfect frequently places and surfaces used by other people.
Hand washing:-
Hand washing is the best way to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection
and other germs, only next to social distancing of 6 feet. Wash hands thoroughly
and frequently with soap and water for 20 seconds. During corona time if going
out is unavoidable, carry a hand sanitizer.
How to do it:
Wet hands with warm and running (if possible) water;
Add soap;
Rub hands vigorously for 20 seconds;
Wash all surfaces: backs of hands, wrists, between fingers, tips of fingers,
thumbs under fingernails (use nailbrush);
Rinse;
Keep fingers pointing down;
Dry with paper or clean cloth towel;
Turn off faucet with towel and open door with towel
How it works:
The soap-water is not killing the germs but the lather eraces and suspends
the dirt on the hands and soils. The friction motion helps pull greasy or oily
soils free from the skin. Friction of wiping hands removes more germs.
Regular hand washing with soap and water can protect you from many illnesses
caused by viruses and bacteria. Germs hide on remote, door handles, keyboards,
faucet handles, lift panels and any surface people touch. You can't see, they
are microscopic. Washing hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water
is a safeguard against infectious diseases. Otherwise, these germs may get into
your eyes, nose, or mouth and cause illnesses.
When to wash hands in normal times:
On return home from outside;
After using the bathroom;
Before touching any food or eating;
After handling animals or animal wastes;
Using hand sanitizer:-
This is not a new discovery, alcohol has been used as a disinfectant for centuries.
And it is also so commonly seen today when we are given a jab. Currently, with
corona on the rampage, alcohol-based hand sanitizers (also known as handrubs)
have come into focus. Experts say it should be used the proper way. Even so,
it does not eliminate all types of germs, according to the CDC. However, ensure
that the hand sanitizer has at least 60% alcohol to be effective and not more
than say, 80%, because, they say, some water content is required for the process
of denaturation of those pesky germs.
Remember:-
First, all dirt should be removed from hands before using hand sanitizers.
If hands are visibly dirty, go for hand wash. That is better.
Second, apply it on one palm, then rub hands together covering all surfaces
of hands and fingers till it is absorbed. It acts quickly to kill micro-organisms
on hands
Third, must use enough of it (see the label)
Fourth, don't wipe it off before it is dried
Fifth, it is less irritating to the skin than soap and water
Sixth, it can be done anywhere any time, and;
Seventh, but it won't remove chemicals like pesticides
Betting through Dubai-based Mahadev Book in India is conducted through a countrywide network. Probes reveal that the online gambling is worth several millions and top politicians, officials and celebs have been beneficiaries.
TAILPIECE: Polling dates for some States are round the corner. Top
politicians have begun their acrimonious debate who looted more, even as
Mahadev is washing their dirty laundry in the open ghat. Come what may,
one needs to seize power to amass "thy wretched pelf!" One simple
question is, why else one should spend lakhs or crores to get elected! A
question every Indian should ask to oneself at least once a day!
His inaction amounts to defeating the rights of the people of the State to
welfare measures sought to be implemented through the Bills, the Kerala
Government's petition submitted, while the State of Tamil Nadu remarked
that its "Governor is acting as a political rival."
Tailpiece: Coming up back to back, the petitions in their totality seem to question the provision of Raj Bhavan, and not motives of a Governor as a
person.
Hundreds of cars piled up behind the wreckage of crashes occurring one
after other in backing up - continuous crashes to the rhythm of metallic
clanks and bangs back to back. According to reports, some ops required
'Jaws of Life' to pull apart the mangled cars to save lives inside.
The pilots struggled with Emerson to thwart a shut-off as he reached for
the T-handles (see pix). Later he admitted to police he had taken
psychedelic mushrooms and had a "nervous breakdown."
Doctors reasoned how the incidence of heart attacks is spiking over time and
advise the simple way to play safely is to take a break and rehydrate
yourself.
But how come ten people, including children, die of cardiac arrest at
Garba in 24 hours, and that at different places of Gujarat? Garba had been going on
for six days, and every year it is celebrated.
Shocking news from the UK: Leading grocers have started bribing policemen with free food and drinks to persuade them to take action against shoplifters.
Shoplifting has risen by about 27 per cent in 10 major cities across the UK
this year. The cost of retail crime last year was $2.15 billion. Besides, “We
are seeing organised gangs threatening staff with weapons and emptying
stores," Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium,
said. Data shows that the police failed to respond to 73 per cent of serious
retail crimes that included assault and abuse of workers, apart from
shoplifting.
Harris said hip-hop is “the ultimate American art form” that “shapes every
aspect of American popular culture.” “Hip-hop culture is American
culture,” she said in a talk at her official residence at the US Naval
Observatory in Washington, D.C.
The social media had mixed reaction. There was much appreciation that
she dances better than any VP in American history. But some called her
"moves" as “cringe” while others did not like her pink pants - "pink pants
don’t look good.” In fact, her ensembles have always been incongruous.
"Let’s see how the (Governor's) Vice-Chancellors are given salary."
Mamata's extreme statements will put the Marxist Government in Kerala,
which is also facing similar issues, to shame. Has she begun the
countdown for a war on the streets?
It's true Mamata has come to see a conspiracy to demolish the established systems across the country, but lacks the ability to foresee what exactly is being pushed.
Brandishing a sword, Mahant Paramhans told reporters on Tuesday he
himself will behead MK Stalin's son for his remarks against Sanatan
Dharma in case nobody came forward to accept his offer he made in his
video. Udhayanidhi reacted to the saint's Monday video, "I will speak
more. I am the grandson of the artist who put his head on the rail track for
Tamil Nadu."
Somanath elaborated, "I am an explorer. I explore the Moon. I explore the inner
space. So it's a part of the journey of my life to explore both science and
spirituality. So I visit many temples and I read many scriptures. So try to find the
meaning of our existence and our journey in this cosmos. So it's a part of the
culture that we are all built to explore, find out the inner self as well as outer
self. So for the outer, I do science, for the inner I come to temples." (See videos)
Rao the mathematical legend had fathered the path-breaking Rao-Blackwell
theorem, one of the most important theorems in mathematical statistics, at the
age of 25. That brought him global fame. He is also famous for his Cramér-Rao
Bound inequality theorem relating to quality of estimators in statistics which has
had a profound bearing on applications of modern economics and several other
diverse fields. Simply put, with the pioneering statistician computation became a
tool to analyse even socio-economic challenges of modern times.
The alleged incident has received such a flash publicity that a standardised
city's hugely middle class population will have second thoughts about eating
outside for some time. Now everything on the table looks suspicious!
“All subjects directly connected to the people should be shifted to the State List. Particularly the subject of education. Only if this is done can cruel exams like NEET be abolished,” Stalin said. Education was moved from the State List to the Concurrent List with the 42nd Constitution Amendment made by the Central Government in 1976.
Decentralisation has been at the core of Tamil politics since the times of CN Annadurai. Stalin indicated there will be political changes in the offing.
TAILPIECE: While the Centre and the States are at loggerheads, it takes a
different cognitive acumen to know that entrance tests are not the way for
students' admission to courses.
As recently as Tuesday Craig Robertson had posted on Facebook: "Perhaps
Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the
Marxist." Biden was scheduled to make his first visit to Utah as President
Wednesday afternoon.
Maruti is recalling 87,599 S-Presso and Eeco vehicles to inspect and possibly
replace parts in the steering system. All reputed companies around the
world do recall their products when a defect comes to light.
Meanwhile, a question arises why just in about a year so many accidents have
taken place involving Mercedes sent to India while the car has won safety awards
abroad? In most cases, the vehicle collided with divider, while manoeuvring a
turn. Was there a split second delay in the steering system coming to a grip
when at high speed? Did anybody in India bother to study a pattern in several
of these accidents that took place one after other?
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry died when his Mercedes-Benz-SUV hit
a divider in Gujarat. Cricketer Rishabh Pant's Mercedes-Benz-SUV rammed a divider
in Uttarakhand and smashed. It went up in flames but he escaped with injuries.
Brother of PM Narendra Modi, Prahlad Modi's Mercedes-Benz-SUV met with a similar
accident in Mysuru. And many more.
Experts blame violation of the Visual Flying Rules (VFR) for most of the
chopper crashes in the mountains as the leading cause. VFR means fly only
visually - because of the lack of navigation aids in remote areas or unreliability
of GPS-like aids in hilly terrains or a remote manipulation of instruments
in cases of sabotage - as the topography plays havoc especially in the monsoon
(mid-June to September).
Even when VFR is followed, most crashes occur due to CFIT (Controlled Flight
into Terrain) - that is, everything else is OK but the aircraft collides with
hills or trees hidden by the clouds. This also occurs mostly in the monsoon.
On Tueday with Manang, the chopper was brand new, pilot was highly experienced.
But it hit an 'invisible' tree and then crashed against a hillside. This
CFIT occurred when the pilot tried to dodge patches of clouds even as he was
following the VFR.
Simply put, everyone knows flying in the hills during the monsoon is risky,
but the companies want to make more money in any which case. This type of
tragedy is very frequently invited in the Indian hill State of Uttarakhand
as well, where pilots are even made to fly without the mandatory rest.
Curfew was clamped on areas in Paris on Thursday lasting till Monday. The
police apprehend an escalation of volence in the coming days. There will be
"actions targeted at the forces of order and the symbols of the State", they
said.
Under present law, the police have brute powers to deal with traffic violators.
Young Nahel was shot point-blank by a cop for purported traffic violation
and an anticipated crime.
