Face Masks and Hand Washing

Face Masks and Hand Washing
Below is a reproduction from a web site.
I wrote a long piece during the last episode of "Chicken Flu" and unfortunately (covering even Ebola virus) I could not trace it back.
Most important fact is hand washing with soap and water.
Even AIDS virus dies with bit of soap.
Other two best antiseptics are vinegar and lime juice. 
Please do not go for detergents (Coca Cola is the best for the toilet pan) but use Coca Cola to flush your commode at the end of the day.
Please do not eat eggs coming from an unhealthy (I do not think eggs transmit the virus but could be contaminated by a soul who is incubating the disease) farm.
Now these diseases originate (there are similar farms even in Kandy City) from farms (egg farms included) that are maintained poorly and horrendously cruel to the birds.
Best action is to become a vegetarian and go for Tofu!
My son is a living example who is practising the correct virtues!

Reproduction
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
As the Wuhan coronavirus spreads, cities in China and other parts of Asia are reportedly running out of face masks. NPR's Maria Godoy looked into whether a mask can protect you from the virus.
MARIA GODOY, BYLINE: First, let's distinguish what kinds of face masks we're talking about. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that health care workers interacting with a coronavirus patient wear a heavy-duty mask called an N95 respirator. They're designed to block small particles from entering the nose and mouth.
Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center says wearing an N95 is serious business.
WILLIAM SCHAFFNER: We have to be fit-tested. We have to demonstrate that we know how to put them on and wear them. And they're difficult to wear. That's the kind of protection that really works.
GODOY: But what most people on the streets are wearing is something else - cheap, disposable surgical masks. And Schaffner says the evidence that these masks protect against infection is meager.
SCHAFFNER: The general sense is perhaps, but they're certainly not an absolute protection.
RAINA MACINTYRE: A mask will protect you against a visible splash or spray of fluid or large droplets. It's just a physical barrier.
GODOY: Raina MacIntyre is an infectious disease researcher at the University of New South Wales in Australia. She's studied the efficacy of face masks. She says surgical masks don't provide a tight fit. Small airborne particles can still get through. But her research suggests surgical masks can lower the risk of getting infected if you're at home in close contact with a family member who has a respiratory illness, but only if you wear the mask right.
MACINTYRE: Which means wearing it all the time when you're in the same room as the infected person.
GODOY: And being careful not to touch the front of the mask when removing it. Otherwise, you could end up contaminating yourself.
As for wearing a surgical mask outdoors in public, Marybeth Sexton of the Emory University School of Medicine says that's not necessary if you're in the U.S. or another country where the risk of catching the Wuhan coronavirus is considered low.
MARYBETH SEXTON: When you're out in the open air, you've got a lot of good airflow. It's really going to be in enclosed spaces with people who are contagious that you have the most risk of transmission.
GODOY: She says wearing a face mask is a good idea if you're ill and need to go see the doctor, but that's really to keep you from getting other people sick. Otherwise, she says, leave the face masks for the people who need them, like health care workers and people with symptoms, so we don't end up with mask shortages.
Raina MacIntyre says the calculation of whether to wear a face mask is different for people in a place like Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the current outbreak.
MACINTYRE: If it's someone in Wuhan, where most of the cases have been, then there might be some value to it. There's a lot of unknowns about this infection. That's the problem.
GODOY: And wherever you are, there is something that all the infectious disease experts I spoke with recommend we all do to keep from getting sick - wash your hands a lot.
SCHAFFNER: Hand-washing for sure - constantly, frequently, all the time; summer, winter, whatever.
GODOY: Maria Godoy, NPR News.

Preparation for Concentration / Focus for Moment Meditation

Preparation for Concentration / Focus for Moment Meditation

1. Do not Think of the Past (I have not finished my work)

2. Do not Think of the Future (I have lot of things to do)

3. Do not let the mind drift (a mosquito hovering)

4. Do not say it is warm (dress appropriately but do not look for a fan)

5. Do not say it is cold (dress appropriately but do not look for a heater)

6. Do not be lazy

7. Avoid company (If one cannot avoid not more than five for a group)

8. Do not look for solitude

9. Be aware of the current setting (if you are in a bus find a corner and pretend you read a book/note)

10. Be aware of the current physical need (voiding, hunger, physical disability)

If there is a hindrance (as you may perceive it), do not react to it but accept it as a fickle and passing episode like quicksilver.

Then any place is good for moment meditation.

If you are not meditating, just focus and do what you have to do in the present moment to the best of your capability.

In a sense your mind is in a Moment Mediation Mode (3M).

If one practises these few principles with diligence and awareness, getting into moment meditation becomes just a habit not a “result seeking work” endeavor.

One's productivity in what ever one does goes up by the minute.

It is not easy but one has to practice and become adept at it.

Then you do not need a guru and you become a master and not a slave of a rigid protocol dispensed by an unprepared master.

Slippery “Banana Bat Story” or the “Fruit Bat Story” of Ebola

Slippery “Banana Bat Story” or the “Fruit Bat Story” of Ebola

It is easy to get Ebola from a banana kept in the veranda / porch for ripening.

These are the steps.

1.The bats (who are staving in the wild due to deforestation, now venture into houses for food) come at night, and land on a tray containing banana.

2. It accidentally drops an ornamental ceramic on the floor shattering it and scattering the pieces on the floor.

3. House wife eats banana from the bunch and discovers a piece of banana on the floor and her prized ornamental ceramic on the floor.

She picks one piece and in the process cuts her tender fingers in the left hand.

She immediately touches the wound with the right hand fingers smeared with (contaminated by the bat) banana fruit contaminated with bat's saliva.

4. Then she washes her hand and wipes her face with a towel hung over night for drying.

Unfortunately, she does not know that bat's thick fruity dropping had been on it.

(She loves fruity aroma of her make-up.)

5. She had high dose of virus (minute dose of virus is enough to cause disease) in her BLOOD, BOWEL and her FACE.

She is downed with fever and later hemorrhage and was diagnosed as Dengue and was not isolated and she contaminates the entire intensive care unit.

The first case of Ebola in this country of ours was misdiagnosed.

The disease spread by our bats into the villages.

The government orders the extermination of bats and in this pretext clears, the remaining rain forest.

Poor Sri-Lankans in the cities catch the bats trapped on the giant electric wires and eat them as a delicacy.

The entire island is now on full alert and the politicians leave the country on the pretext of international Ebola conference and never return.

The Ebola has saved this country from corrupt politicians.

The caveat is one should not eat slippery banana and should not slip away from this country.

The citizens are considered a high risk population (on this planet) except politicians and are trapped in this island enclave for ever.

Pepe, The People's President (Mewa Lankawe Venne Nane)

From BBC (Mewa Lankawe Venne Nane)
Pepe, The People's President
Uruguay's President Jose Mujica says he has been offered $1m (£630,000) for his vintage Volkswagen Beetle.
Mr Mujica, once dubbed "the poorest president in the world" because of his modest lifestyle, said the offer had come from an Arab sheikh.
He told the weekly Busqueda magazine that if he did accept the offer, the money would be used to help the poor.
President Mujica - popularly known as Pepe - lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay.
In 2010, his annual personal wealth declaration - mandatory for officials in Uruguay - was $1,800, the value of his blue 1987 Beetle.
Busqueda reported that the offer for the car was made at an international summit earlier this year in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
"They made me an offer," Mr Mujica, 79, told the magazine.
"I was a bit surprised, and at first I really didn't pay too much attention to it. But later, another offer came in, and I began to take it a little more seriously."
Jose Mujica has lived in his wife's farmhouse rather than in the presidential palace
The president said he had "no commitment to cars" and would happily auction it.
He joked that he had not sold it so far because he needed it for his dog Manuela, famous for only having three legs.
Mr Mujica said that if he got $1m for the car, he would donate it to a programme he supports that provides housing for the homeless.
President Mujica is barred by the constitution from running for a second consecutive term and a presidential election held last month is to go to a second round.
A recent survey gave Mr Mujica an approval rating of nearly 60%.