‘TEA DYED’ MASKS in Sri Lanka AATCC 100 bio-degradable

 Sri Lankan authorities has embarked on an innovative initiative to promote the Ceylon Tea brand during the global Covid-19 pandemic by distributing ‘tea dyed’ face masks to the international business community.

The masks are natural antimicrobial (AATCC 100), bio-degradable, eco-friendly, and non-toxic.

The Ceylon Tea branded face masks are distributed on a complimentary basis in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Relations.

According to the Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB), the face masks which have undergone a value addition process with the usage of the Ceylon Tea dye, a by-product of iced tea manufacturing, is reusable upto 30 washes, reports the Daily Mirror newspaper.

The SLTB said arrangements have been made to dispatch the branded face masks to over 75 Sri Lankan missions around the world who would distribute the product to the end users.

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An eye OPENING-if you don't believe about COVID- "ill-prepared US Gov for this pandemic"

This story is very touching and this is definitely an eye OPENING for those you don't believe about COVID-19

Natasha Ott

A healthy 39-year-old social worker died days after initially turning down a coronavirus test because she was told she was “low-risk,” her boyfriend said in a heartbreaking Facebook post. Josh Anderson says he found girlfriend Natasha Ott dead in her apartment in New Orleans on Friday as she still awaited news on whether her sickness and fever were actually COVID-19.

He warned that the “government is ill-prepared for this pandemic in a way that has and will cost lives,” while urging people to “cherish your loved ones like you could lose them.”

“The time for joking about Covid-19 is over,” he wrote. 

He said Ott — who helped people who are HIV-positive — had first told him on March 10 that she had a “respiratory cold” and “tiny fever.”

“They sent her home, but didn’t test her — she was told she was low-risk,” he wrote, calling his partner “a profoundly kind, passionate, funny and loving 39-year-old woman in good health.”

Her own clinic only had five test kits available, he said, adding she told him, “I declined to take one so someone else could.”

After her condition deteriorated, she finally got tested on March 16 — almost a week after first falling sick — but was told the results would take at least five days, with a further delay meaning they are still not ready, he said.

Anderson detailed Ott’s worsening mood and health, as well as her attempts to reassure him that she would be fine if she just drank whiskey.

He finally “found her dead in her kitchen” at 8 p.m. Friday while checking up because she had failed to respond to texts or calls.

“For those of you not fortunate enough to have known her — know this: it’s an immeasurable loss,” he wrote.

“And seeing a woman I knew to be so full of life lying on the floor lifeless was devastating. I was afraid to touch her. I held her anyway,” he said. NY Post

If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask -WHO

• If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.
• Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
• Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.
• Before putting on a mask, clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• Cover mouth and nose with mask and make sure there are no gaps between your face and the mask.
• Avoid touching the mask while using it; if you do, clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• Replace the mask with a new one as soon as it is damp and do not re-use single-use masks.
• To remove the mask: remove it from behind (do not touch the front of mask); discard immediately in a closed bin; clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.

Correct way to wear and dispose of masks

Japanese Water Therapy-Kick Start your Metabolism

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This JAPANESE WATER THERAPY IS THE KEY TO LOSING WEIGHT AND STAYING HEALTHY

Highlights

• Water is an essential part of our lives
• It is often advised that one must drink at least eight to ten glasses
• Japanese Water Therapy helps kick-start your metabolism

Water is an essential part of our lives and it is one of the basic elements required for human survival. It is often advised that one must drink at least eight to ten glasses of water every day to flush out all the toxins and to help it to function properly. Some nutritionists also advise that is great to start you day with a glass of warm water, lime and honey. It kick-starts your metabolism and does wonders for your overall health. In fact, people in Japan take this advice quite seriously and practice a certain kind of water therapy that is known to help with weight loss and fitness. A simple practice when done methodically and consistently may help in fighting various health problems. The objective of this therapy is to use water in your daily life to balance and regulate your health.at i

What is the Japan Water Therapy?

Most of the ailments begin with a weak stomach. The Japanese Water Therapy helps in cleaning your stomach and boosting your digestive system. Japanese traditional medicine recommends drinking water right after waking up early morning. These early morning hours are considered to be 'golden hours'. Drinking water during this period not only promotes weight loss by smoothing your digestive system, but can also help in treating various health problems.

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What Does the Japan Water Therapy Suggest?

Here are five things that the Japanese Water Therapy suggests you must do:

1. As soon as you wake up in the morning, drink four to six glasses of water, each of 160-200 milliliters, on an empty stomach. Water should ideally be consumed at room temperature or lukewarm. You can also squeeze some fresh lemon juice in it.
2. Brush your teeth after drinking water. Avoid eating or drinking anything for at least 45 minutes, after which you can continue with your daily routine.
3. After every meal of the day, do not eat or drink anything for at least two hours.
4. Elderly people, those who are suffering from any serious health condition or even those who have just started out should begin the therapy with one glass of water every day and gradually increase the number of glasses.
5. If you are unable to chug all four glasses of water in one go, wait for a couple of minutes between each glass of water so as to give your stomach a break.
6. The Japanese water theory claims to cure diseases and give you a fit and healthy life. The therapy recommends that you make the above tips a part of your daily routine.

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The Japanese theory also states these important points:

• Walk quietly every day for at least an hour. This will help in fastening your metabolism.
• Every night, before going to the bed, gargle at least 4-5 times with warm water mixed with salt.
• Avoid eating and drinking while you stand as it hinders the digestion process.
• Chew your food properly before gulping it down as it helps in better digestion of food.

Benefits of the Japanese Water Therapy

Japanese water therapy helps relieve stress, promotes weight loss and ensures a strong digestive system. Most of all, it keeps you energetic throughout the day and a healthy body leads to a healthy mind. Ayurveda experts also suggest that you must drink water first thing in the morning as it plays a key role in boosting your health.
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Near Death Experiences and Reanimation: Scientific “Proof” of Life After Death?

A “tunnel”, “bright light”, or lives “flashing” before their lives… many who have faced death report incidents of near death experiences (NDE); some even claim to have an out of body experience where they were “floating” above their bodies, watching their doctors fight to revive their dying bodies.

On one hand, some individuals claim that this is proof of a life after death.

On the other hand, skeptics claim that NDEs do not exist and are physiological and psychological reactions to intolerable stress and pain, or hallucinations brought on by a dying and failing brain.

But what if there was scientific evidence to prove or disprove either of these viewpoints?

Today, I stumbled upon an article titled “German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death” written by World News Daily Report, citing and summarizing a recent study conducted in 2014 at Technische Universität of Berlin by a team of researchers led by Doctor Berthold Ackermann.

The study claimed to have medically induced and supervised NDE in944 volunteers for a time period of four years, using epinephrine and dimethyltryptamine to allow the body to survive clinical death and reanimation without damage. Various other drugs were used to place the individuals in a comatose state, from which they were “reanimated” from approximately 18 minutes later.

A cardiopulmonary recitation (CPR) machine called the AutoPulse was used to reanimate people who had been declared clincally dead anytime from 40 to 60 minutes.

Participants reported feelings of detachment from the body, overwhelming light, levitation, securiy, sereniy, warmth, and “absolute dissolution”. 

As soon as I read the lines about an “induced” comatose state, I knew there was something wrong with this supposedly “scientific” study.

Before I explain my reasons for being skeptical, I’ll show you the disclaimer written on the “news” website that this article was initially published on.

“World News Daily Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real ormostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental, except for all references to politicians and/or celebrities, in which case they are based on real people, but still based almost entirely in fiction.”

If this isn’t convincing enough for you that the article is fake, let me explain some reasons why you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet, especially this article:

1. Ethical Issues: I cannot think of one institutional review board (IRB) at any university that would grant funding and permission to conduct an experiment that placed its participants in a drug-induced state of clinical death– even if only for 18 minutes.
2. Dr. Berthold Ackermann: The non-existent doctor that was the head researcher of the university. One google search shows that all the proof for the existant Dr. Ackermann are from World News Daily Report or other websites that have shared or summarized the article.
3. Population Sample: Would you volunteer for a study that claimed to be able to kill you and bring you back to life, just to record the memories that you had of the event when you were supposedly brought back to life?
4. Immeasurable Variables: There is no statistical data to prove or disprove the existence of an afterlife in this study. The fundamental parts of a scientific experiment (independent and dependent variables, control group, hypothesis…) were not present, and even if this experiment was real, correlation does not prove causation. Also, there are many ways to die– not just from the usage of drugs, which could also have affected the outcomes.
5. Publication: Where was this scientific study published? There are no citations for a scientific journal that the study was supposedly published in, and no specific details stating the statistics for the experiment (with the exception of the number of participants and the length of the study– four years!)

Despite the (very) fictional nature of this article, NDE is a widely reported phenomenon worldwide.

However, due to the very subjective and unpredictable nature of NDEs, it is very difficult to establish any scientific evidence– especially through an experiment that claims to kill its participants and bring them back to life.

So don’t believe everything you read– question the validity of scientific findings, and don’t take everything at face value.

Think about the research procedures, the validity of the experiment, and most importantly: the source of the information.http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nde.png

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/german-scientists-prove-there-is-life-after-death/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-89926/Scientists-discover-near-death-evidence.html