Day: July 22, 2021

Thursday, 22 July 2021

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Not too long ago, I wrote about my mini drama involving a car park chip coin at my neighborhood supermarket which I always frequent. The dang small and slippery coin slipped out from my hand into a tiny gap between my car handbrake and my seat and I spent 15 minutes frantically trying to retrieve the coin. The supermarket manager whom I am very familiar with told me that he couldn’t help me and I had to pay a RM30 fine to replace the coin 😠. Thank God for watching over me, I managed to retrieve the coin and evaded the RM30 fine!

Today it happened again, WTF! I wonder if it’s only me with butter fingers (mind you, I’m a very cautious person) or this had happened to many ‘victims’? These days, my hands are always slippery and wet from hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. Surely the tiny, smooth chip coin would slip from my hand, right? 😐

As I was driving out of the supermarket to the exit barrier, I took the coin from the dashboard and fudge, it dropped from my slippery hand into the tiny gap under the dashboard. I quickly parked my car at the side and with my loyal almost empty Cetaphil hand lotion tube that’s thin enough to go through the gap, tried pushing the coin out but the dang coin went to the right side into an even smaller gap. WTF!!! Previously I used the same hand lotion tube to push the coin out.

The coin looks easy to retrieve from the photo but there’s no way one can reach it as it’s wedged inside.

I called the car park attendant for help even though I knew that he won’t take the effort to help me coz he’s not the most helpful of staff and always has a grumpy and pissed off face. Wasted my time and effort calling him as he just said “tak tahu”. Whatever, go back to work. I quickly called hubs for SOS and fortunately he was on his way out of his shop to get some ingredients to cook fish head curry and managed to come to my rescue within 5 minutes.

One look at the dashboard and my handyman pushed a lever under the steering wheel and the steering wheel box loosened and moved up; I heard the dang chip coin roll out onto the mat. Thank God for helping me again! I really didn’t want to waste my RM30 on a stupid coin. 🤑 

I have been driving this car for 7 years but never knew that there’s a lever here to push up the steering wheel box. Super blur me! Do you even know too? 😬

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Importance of PPE In Fighting Covid-19

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Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing ranging from helmets to goggles, surgical face masks, face shields, N95 respirators to hazmat suits and much more. PPE is designed to protect the wearer’s body from injury or infection.  In times of pandemic, PPE is the first line of defense against deadly viruses for healthcare professionals.   With the Covid-19 pandemic spreading like wildfire and mutating into different variants, PPE is more essential than ever.  PPE is of utmost importance not only to healthcare professionals and front liners but to each and everyone of us.   

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We’ve been advised and encouraged to do double masking along with other PPE like goggles and face shield when out in crowded places and healthcare facilities. A recent CDC study found that when people wear a well-fitted surgical mask covered by a cloth mask, they can increase their own protection from aerosol droplets by 90% or more, and that possible transmission is significantly reduced when both parties wore masks.   

PPE will be essential for healthcare staff and the general community for the long haul as Coronavirus is unlikely to be eradicated. It will however, become endemic but with decreased potency over time.  Shopping for face masks, N95 respirators, face shields and goggles will now be an inevitable routine for you and me and everyone else, just like shopping for other essentials  like food and drinks.  We will probably have to live with wearing a face mask whenever we are out for years to come. 

It is the hope of everyone that as more of the world population gets vaccinated and acquires some immunity through exposure to the virus, the impact of the virus on the world in terms of mortality, severity and the need for social isolation will lessen.

Meanwhile, the best we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones from Covid-19 is to mask up the correct way, dress up in proper PPE which you can shop online for at New York Microscope Company, practise social distancing and sanitize our hands and spaces regularly. 

Stay safe and healthy, everyone. May we all persevere to stay strong and determined to fight this war against the invisible enemy together.

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