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Be smart, do your part!

3/21/2020

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I suppose it can be difficult to be optimistic in these difficult and scary times but we must keep our spirits up.  We must smile and hope for the best.  Someone said on Facebook that we shouldn’t worry about quarantine, stay home and work on our crafts, we’ve been training for this our whole lives!   A good chuckle when we need one. 

The only certainly now is uncertainty, as we move forward blindly.  We can do the basic to protect ourselves but there’s so many people willing to play Russian roulette with the virus but instead of a self-inflicted wound, it could impact all those around them.  Pretty much all of the cases in Canada are the result of people returning from vacations, infecting those in near proximity in public places.   I don’t want to make every blog I write about the pandemic, but I feel the need to warn and advise when I don’t see enough people adhering to the warnings and suggestions made by our Prime Minister and those in the know.  Turn into CBC Radio One daily for updates around 12:30 pm.  Another piece of good advice, don’t watch the news all day long, give yourselves a mental break from all the devastation.  You need to be informed but not inundated! 

I know of seven people who were traveling and came back to Mahone Bay and didn’t immediately self-isolate, made trips to the grocery store and at least one went to work before being told to stay home and I’m sure there are others.  Just because we aren’t a hot spot for the virus doesn’t mean we can be complacent in our efforts to keep it at bay and out of the Bay!    

Its disconcerting that very few people are wearing gloves in public in our town.  I’m not sure why after so many warnings but I’m not sure they understand the ramifications.  Sure, the gloves are to protect you, that goes without saying, BUT it also protects others if you are a carrier or sick and don’t know it yet.  You are touching items in the stores, door knobs entering and leaving buildings.  Expecting cashiers to wait on you in the post office and grocery stores.  I was told of a case of a traveler had returned and went to the post office and was told they should be home in self isolation and the gentleman got angry with the person behind the counter. 

Any time during the 14-day self-isolation after returning from a trip can present symptoms, just because you are good on day one to five, doesn’t mean it isn’t brewing.  So many people have traveled and don’t self-isolate when they return home.  They go to work and stock up on groceries in the stores.  I can’t quite get my head around it but then I know not everyone is informed or listens to the right radio stations or television, some actually think it’s all Tom foolery.  It’s going to be a hard lesson to learn when potential death comes knocking, and even if you are lucky enough to survive, what have you done to others you’ve been in contact with, to friends and loved ones?  How can you be so callous with other’s people’s health and welfare?    

And one of the main reasons to self-isolate and self-distance is not to overwhelm the medical system.  If we all get sick at once more people will die because there won’t be adequate equipment or hospital faculties to take care of the masses.   In Italy right now they have announced that anyone over 80 will not receive help because they are so overwhelmed.  How very, very sad. I feel for the doctors that make decisions on who lives or dies, how horrific!  These brave souls are putting themselves in harms way to save others and to date, six doctors have died in Italy caring for the ill.  How many nurses?  Protect yourselves and stay home for the health care workers who are fighting and dying to keep us alive! 

Another thing, pay attention, you’d be surprised how many times you touch your mouth, eyes and nose every day without thinking; COVID-19 enters your body through the orifices of the face.  Don’t touch them if you’ve been in public!  Stay at least 6 feet away from people so if they did cough or sneeze the virus will fall to the floor instead of torpedoing towards your face.   

This is no time to be selfish or thoughtless.  It might be early days but prevention needs to start now, not when the bodies are piling up.  We need to help one another.  We are in this together come hell or high water so act accordingly and do the right thing! 

Gloves are only effective if you:
  1. Put them on in the car before entering the grocery store/drugs store, etc. 
  2. Opening the store doors holding an antibacterial wipe.
  3. Wear while in the store to select items, us to touch the cart.
  4. Leave the gloves on to drive home, if you picked something up they and the bags you’ve carried are compromised.
  5. Take the purchases into the house, wipe or wash everything immediately before putting away in the fridge or cupboards, with the gloves on.
  6. Standing over the garbage can, now take off the gloves by pulling the wrist part down and off the hand and dispose.
  7. Use wipes or a soapy rag to clean the cupboard door in front of the garbage can, knobs on the entrance door, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE and surrounding areas of your house both inside and out.  Start keeping tract of things you touch to cut down on over sanitizing.  Now they even say to wash shoes as they can walk on sneezed contagions and you can carry it home, put your feet up on the coffee table and there it goes!!   Threat you body as if you are a detective at a murder as not to contaminate the scene of the crime! 
  8. Go back outside and wipe the car door handles, clean the steering wheel and anything you may have touched.   And don’t forget to clean the car keys whether a remote starter or a key, they have been touched with those gloves.
 
People who say they keep hand sanitizer and wipes in their car after leaving a building don’t realized they may have already infected the car door handle and probably the wheel before they get the sanitizer on.  Same as the sanitizer stations in the stores.  Getting in and out of the building you have doors to deal with.   Another thing, pay attention, you’d be surprised how many times you touch your mouth, eyes and nose daily. 

And one more tidbit I feel I must pass on. This is something I discovered when I had environment sickness and did a lot of research into what knocks out the immune system.  If you plan to go out in public, don’t drink alcohol or drink pop for up to 24 hours before.  The darker colas and root beer etc., are very cloudy when produced and the clearing agent they put in it to make it clear suppresses the immune system for about 24 hours.  Statistically, Pop drinkers tend to get more colds and flues than others because of this. Alcohol does the same.  So, plan your sips; this is no time to be running around without the only natural defense we have.  Stay safe all!

                                WASH YOUR HANDS AND CHANGE YOUR PLANS!!

  
1 Comment
Adena
3/21/2020 12:57:06 pm

Thanks, Christine. Being in a 'high risk' category, I hope everyone would heed the advice given by reliable sources - wash your hands and practise self distancing ❤️

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