3 Steps In Help Of A Global Pandemic Traveler

 Since ancient history, humans have developed to learn and achieve more by their sense of curiosity. Science has changed gradually, and sky is no longer a limit, but a new destination to explore. Travelling has become a passion, a desire to reach out to the unknown and see the unseen. Being teased and tempted by travel bloggers and documentary movies, we want to be able to travel RIGHT NOW, no matter the circumstances.

As the COVID-19 vaccination process is still on-going, time through lockdowns, pandemic waves and constant restrictions changes slowly as the summer season approaches. More than 409.6 million vaccine doses are being administered worldwide,  which is approximately 5.3 doses per a hundred people. 

However, vaccine tracker says the gap between the different countries is getting bigger and the no-shows, speculations and untrust in COVID-19 vaccines seem to rise. With more than a year of pandemic as our companion, we’re sure to hope this will not be another lost holiday in our calendars.

• No matter if it’s all about business or pleasure, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has all the information available on his website. Beside measures for washing our hands wearing a mask, avoiding crowded places and staying at least 6 feet one from another, an interactive world map is presented, stating COVID-19 travel recommendation by destination. It’s most convenient, as it uses a 4-level system of risk assessment, as well as one level unknown. It might be for the purpose of U.S. citizens only, but it sure includes absolutely all countries worldwide, gathers all information up to one place and it’s quite useful, rather than check each country separately.

• Another great breakthrough is the mobile app, launched by the international Air Travel Association (IATA) – union, which consists of 290 airlines worldwide. The travel pass, which eventually can be paper-based for people that don’t own a smartphone, will allow governments and airlines to digitally collect, access and share information on the status of individual passengers’ Covid-19 test and vaccination. Since 17th March it has reached its first trial by Singapore Lines in the international flight from Singapore to London, but the best is still yet to come, as several carriers signed up for trials in the next weeks and months.

• The EU is also concerned about the present situation and is in a process of admitting digital green certificates, in use for EU member states, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. QR code with a digital signature is implemented, as to verify the authenticity, integrity and validity of the certificate. 

Depending on its owner preferences, it will be in digital or paper-based form, in order to spare any inconvenience and will make free movement easy as a safe proof that the passenger is either recovered from COVID-19, vaccinated or received a negative test result. So again, vaccination is not a precondition to travel and all human rights are not being violated and are completely secured here. 

It is important to add only the results of so-called NAAT tests (including RT-PCR tests) and rapid antigen tests are eligible for the certificates purposes. However, Germany and France already stated their issues over data privacy and social discrimination, so it’not sure whether the whole project will be embraced by all EU member states. 

Adoption by the EU parliament and Council  will be the further  steps in the procedure in the next few months to come. Since the UK, USA and any other 3rd party citizens are out of reach, the World Health Organization (WHO) has promised to create an international trusted framework. European Commision is also sure to be working in order that the certificates are compatible with systems in third countries outside the EU, and that it will encourage other countries to recognise the Digital Green Certificate when lifting restrictions on non-essential travel.

Travelling is the most common way of spreading and getting coronavirus, and therefore making it available only to persons that have some sort of protection against it, is essential. But if you can’t possibly delay it and stay home office, you just have to be prepared for all that’s going to happen, as every country seems to have its own restriction and every airline is yet in a trial process of developing a permanent decision. 

Governments and global organizations are already working on it, and it’s all a matter of time when there’s going to be a digital transport, suitable to everyone. We’ve been patient enough to wait for the COVID-19 vaccines in Baden-Württemberg to come, and now it’s time to give it a chance on global efforts for implementing international travelling rules.

A Post-Pandemic World. The Future of Corona

 One year after Covid-19 in Baden-Württemberg began its relentless spread across the world, the contours of a global order reshaped by the pandemic are starting to emerge. Just as the virus has shattered lives, disrupted economies, and changed election outcomes, it will lead to permanent political and economic power shifts both within and among countries. To help us make sense of these shifts as the crisis enters a new phase in 2021, here is an interview that I found with the author of “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerged Diseases in a World Out of Balance” Laurie Garrett:

• “What do you think, Laurie, the future might look like in post pandemic world?”

Laurie Garett

 Firstly, we have to begin with: what is going to be left of our world after covid, what would be the nature of how we all function? I believe a couple of things would have changed, certainly my many years of struggling to have the issue taken seriously in national security circles will no longer fall on “deaf ears”, now everybody gets it, but do they understand the appropriate measures to take, that’s a different story.

• “Does everyone get it, and if they do, especially political leaders, do they understand it well enough to be able to do the right decisions”?

  I think right now(Laurie speaking) that conversation cannot be had ,  at least not in a useful way, but 2 or 3 years from now after CoVid had swept around the world multiple times after we’ve seen devastation and it targets populations all over the planet and perhaps we have mass vaccinations and eating outside then perhaps this will be a very different conversation and the level of sophistication or understanding will be higher, because the costs will be huge, not just loss of life but permanent economic restructuring of everything that we call capitalism, this is going to be so profound that there will not be a single sector of society untouched by this pandemic , there will not a single activity that goes on as it once did , so will they get it? -Yes and No. They will get it in a sense that there will be support for early warning systems, there will be a reappraisal of the sort of multilateral system of the UN (united nations) w-h-o and so on there will be a very large restructuring of all the programs related to development out of the World Bank the Bretton Woods agreements and I think every single government, even auto crating ones, oligarchy is with mass theft and corruption, we’ll see that it’s in their interest to not have another pandemic.

• ” What would be our best hope, and what would be our worst fear for post- Covid world?”

  It’s about economics. It’s really not about if people do have PPE’s, (personal protective equipment)I can see a virus coming, I think that the level of shake-up in our global economy is going to be the most serious challenge, civilization has faced in over 3 or 4-hundred years, we have to go all the way back perhaps even to the great mortality the Black Death of the 14-th century to see something of the scale of what we are about to go through. We are at the very beginning of this, so you have to cast your imagination, but here in New York we have 25% unemployment and this was instantaneous, most of those jobs are not coming back, I don’t care what people think “coming back” is and what re-opening is and as we go through cycle after cycle of the spread of this virus so that it recedes everybody catches their breath, there’s some economic restructuring, businesses re-open, virus comes back again and again… Until ultimately, we come up with a viable strategy to really stop the virus in its tracks, which is almost in definition going to mean an effective vaccine and so I fear it could lead to an even greater expansion of the wealth gap so that the same small cluster of people have been getting wealthier and wealthier, since the 2008 financial crisis, will now get even more of the wealth by shorting in the stock market, by investing, basically against the economy. This I think could result to a kind of a world, that would almost seem to stifle opportunity for the average person. So, my hope and my fear – the fear is that we end up in an economic place after all this worsens all the attributes of the 2008 financial crisis that have proven so horrible that affect populism and nationalism and the retreat from globalism. My hope – the reverse, the flip side of that – that more and more of the public will organize, more of the middle class or what once was the middle class will say “Hey, you know, we have professional skills, we have education we’re not the unwashed masses of the French revolution, we are the educated masses upon which your wealth depends and we demand a new kind of structuring of the economy, a new kind of structuring of the WORLD”.

 This is an interview with Laurie Garrett about the world after CoVid , recorded almost before 1 year from nowadays. And as we see the world now, she was right for the economy, that it is not build the way it meant to be. The rich and wealthy people become even more rich depending on the middle class and their skills, who, in fact stay in the same place in the economy ladder. In my opinion, the only part that is little exaggerated is that the threat is like the Black Death of 14th century, I think that she was affected of the initial outbreak and the % of the sick people, but now we have adequate medicine – vaccines and aerosols to negate the virus, we use hand sanitizers and we just need to keep in mind that this is a group project, for all the people in the world, we have to work together, to co-operate and come over this crisis.

MVS Pharma GmbH is an innovative pharmaceutical start-up company, which researches in the area of reducing viruses and bacteria with plant based aerosols. Their special formula ensures the purity and the stability of the used ingredients during storage. Aleksandar Videv is an article writer, who explores the scientific and fictional ideas about future with/or after Covid-19…. and the possibilities for producing aerosols made out of plants against respiratory viruses and bacteria.

COVID-19 Vs. Home Office Challenge

 Now it’s been more than a year since the coronavirus first crossed our path, we’re certainly more than sick and tired of all the restrictions, lockdowns, opening and closures of almost everything that’s possible.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned for sure so far, that’s home is the most secure place on Earth, and as long as we don’t have to go outside, we’re perfectly safe. While not leaving it for some reason is not an option, since as human beings we’re in a deep need of social contacts, plus we have serious duties to cover.

But when circumstances force us to be adjustable and turn our home into a working place, then it’s different. Nevertheless, it isn’t as difficult as we thought it would be, is it?

In fact, it appears making your home your castle is not as easy as it may seem, but either way there are some pretty good clues to follow, that bring a successful professional, even if it is a home-office based one.

First things first – the most important thing we should do, while working from home, is protect our health. That means we have to protect our eyes, back and neck, because we certainly don’t want them to cause us any additional trouble.

Second thing you need to do, is setting certain boundaries to your home office. Now that sometimes turns into a serious obstacle, because not everyone has the space enough to make such.

• In pandemic times doors are needed for a reason, and escaping distractions really means choosing a separate room to call it an office, even if it was used for a different purpose through the weekend. If not that, you can at least choose a separate corner of the room, equipped with everything that’s absolutely necessary to keep things going, as they were in the real office. That’s when a functional desk is essential and cupboards are in tremendous help to hide things, that you don’t need all the time and will limit your movements and distract you.
• In order to do that, you have to think of simple ways of setting up your furniture right. This basically means your screen must be at such a distance that’s comfortable for your eyes, and prevent you from any eye strain and staring at the screen. Your office chair must be really an office suitable one, since this is definitely not a few hour situation.
• Blurry vision, headache and dry eyes can and should be avoided by adding an extra-moisture to the room, by a humidifier, or at least by making regular breaks to open a window in your home-office. Support the need of fresh air either to your body, as to your room, considering that good ventilation is supposed to be one of the COVID-19 preventing measures.
• There’s a 20-20-20 rule in ophthalmology you might stick to, like looking 20 feet away every 20 minutes for 20 seconds. Artificial tears are also an option to keep your eyes good moisted and provide any unnecessary discomfort.
• Color psychologists say yellow and orange are actually great colors for the office, while yellow is supposed to be stimulating to think outside the box and come up with new ideas, and orange seems to promote creativity. However, try not to get surrounded with any harsh, heavy or dark color schemes, and avoid any distracting patterns.
• Computer glasses are here to help too, plus there are a few freeware programs that automatically calculate recommended colours on your display, based on your location, and the daylight that comes to you, creating illumination that supports a space’s identity.
• In fact, a research from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering shows that in companies with a high standard of interior design, productivity can increase by up to 36 per cent. So, why not apply that general rule successfully to your new, productive and here-to-stay, home office?
• Although setting a physical boundaries is a priority, setting a mind boundaries is also vital. Your body just needs to know it’s a working situation, not a relaxing one. So before teaching your children daddy/mommy is actually working right now, which is not so easy to believe and achieve, set the pace for work in your brain.

While everyone has their own unique household dynamic, bringing in the office atmosphere can be a completely different thing. Expert’s advice ranges from taking a pet or a plant to care for, rewarding yourself, or wearing a working suit to choosing whatever music you like to keep you as much isolated of all kinds of distractions.

• Truth is that you need to make a similar work environment, as it is in your office and stick to your daily routine, as the only thing that’s not going to be the same, is having lunch with your colleagues.

But as long as you have a good wi-fi, virtual meetings are a possibility that can minimize the difference between home office and a real one, and communicate with people, share experience and troubleshooting during the working process.

• Scheduling breaks can be a useful trick, too. There are several platforms to arrange your working calendar as balanced and busy as you need it to be. It’s all about setting the right tone that triggers your brain from getting ready to steady-go daily buttons.
• Beyond everything, setting up with an action plan is really a must-do thing. Golden rules of goal setting is not any new, as it’s based on goal-setting theory founded by Locke & Latham, 1984. Nowadays it’s implemented and adjusted in various conceptions and is a powerful source of achieving better results and gaining self-motivation.

The most common one – S.M.A.R.T. uses the a mnemonic acronym, giving criteria to guide in the setting of objectives. According to it, a goal must be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-based. And as we’re eager to get the home-office job well done, we should keep these little things in mind, at the expense of achieving the big goal.

So you see, bringing a home office to success, through a pandemic breakdown is not as hard, as it seems. You can make it happen just by following simple rules. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past year, it is to follow the governmental rules that literally stoke from everywhere – shops, pharmacies, schools, restaurants etc. And if we’re being true to ourselves, we’ll realize we need rules to survive, even if they’re sometimes unpleasant or restrictive.

You know how when life gives you lemons, you should make a lemonade. Now when life gives you the possibility of working from home, do it a favorite place, that’s not different from any office. After all, it’s your home we’re talking about and you can adjust it on your demand just fine.

MVS Pharma GmbH is an innovative pharmaceutical start-up company, which researches in the area of reducing viruses and bacteria with plant based aerosols. Their special formula ensures the purity and the stability of the used ingredients during storage.

Liliya Ganeva is an article writer, who explores all the actual, up-to-date Covid-19 in Baden-Württemberg information, and the possibilities for producing aerosols made out of plants against respiratory viruses and bacteria.

Boost your immunity during COVID-19 Outbreak

  When it comes to proper nutrition, everyone knows it’s essential for securing good quality and healthy life. But as we switch to our daily routines, we often forget about it and push it aside. When living with the coronavirus aside for about more than a year, it’s really important for us to bring our priorities on the table, as they are as vital during a pandemic like this, as are the Covid vaccine in Baden-Württemberg worries and concerns.

While food is the best medicine in times like this, knowing which products can boost our immunity, and eat a well-balanced diet  is crucial. It can actually turn everyday shopping from something necessary to a pleasant and useful one, as people with chronic diseases are at a higher risk of infecting and/or  more severe courses of  coronavirus.

• The first thing you have to do is eat more fresh or minimally processed food, which means that’s a pretty good moment to learn how to cook, if you haven’t already done that. You have the time to do that and you have all the Internet to help you, providing you with various videos and helping you do it as smoothly as it can be and be a professional about it.

• Improving your diet may include fruits, vegetables, legumes (e.g. lentils, beans), nuts and whole grains (e.g. unprocessed maize, millet, oats, wheat, brown rice or starchy tubers or roots such as potato, yam, taro or cassava), and foods from animal sources (e.g. meat, fish, eggs and milk). When doing it, make sure not to overcook your food, or you’ll lose all the important vitamins in it. Avoid canned or dried vegetables and fruit, or at least choose varieties without added salt or sugar.

• Another thing that’s actually applicable even if it wasn’t the pandemic, is give yourself enough sleep. 7-8 hour sleep gives your body time to build your immunity and lack of it will leave you tired and impair your brain activity. Keep in mind that we’re the only mammals to deliberately skip on sleeping by using caffeine and some other refreshing substances.

• You have to stay hydrated at all times and drink at least 8-10 glasses of water on a daily basis, as water transits nutrients and compounds in blood, regulates your body temperature, gets rid of waste, and lubricates and cushions joints.

But in order to understand the reason why all pharmacies are empty of some food supplements and therefore waiting in a queue is no longer an option to succeed in finding what you need, we have to know which are the top Immune-Related Nutrients, Bioactive Compounds, and Herbs that can boost your immune system and make your body more sustainable in the terms of a COVID-19 outbreak.

The whole nutrition composition lists all range of components, ranging from vitamin C, D, E, K, B-complex, selenium, zinc, DHA and EPA and ALA omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, garlic, onion, echinacea, lactoferrin, elderberry, Nigella sativa and Glycyrrhiza glabra, iodine, ginger, acerola and turmeric, honey, magnesium and iron, rutin and probiotics.

So, as you can see, eating healthy food during the pandemic  really matters, and there are already several medical researches concerning this issue.  But instead of buying a bunch of pills we can easily have the job done by supplying most of them by eating certain foods. Let’s have a look at the top 10 that can lift us up, while everyone is feeling down.

1.    Citrus fruits.

As vitamin C is not traditionally  produced in the human body, we have to provide it by including it in our daily meal. Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient found in leafy greens and citrus, especially grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes, and clementines. It acts as an antioxidant, protecting cells from damage caused by free radicals.

2.    Broccoli.

Eating it as raw as it could be, it can provide all A, C, E vitamins. It’s also a powerful antioxidant, being  a source of lutein and sulforaphane, and contains some additional nutrients, including some magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, and iron, an array of B vitamins.

3.    Garlic.

Garlic is absolutely available nutrition, which has been used since ancient times for its antibacterial and antimicrobial properties. It contains a whole scale of elements, like Manganese, Selenium, B6 and fibers.

4.    Ginger.

By his bioactive compound gingerol, it has been found to alleviate pain and fight nausea, as well as decrease inflammation. It’s also found to alleviate pain and fight nausea.

5. Spinach

Spinach is a perfect source of vitamins A, C, and E, beta carotene, as well folate, magnesium and iron, that help you fight virus invaders in uncertain times. Like broccoli, it’s again important not to overcook your spinach, as it’s less effective as much as it’s cooked. Better eat it wilted, not steamed, so you can keep enough of his antioxidant abilities.

6.    Nuts and seeds.

Nuts, especially almonds, walnuts, cashews, pistachio and hazelnut  are full of fibres, proteins, vitamin E, minerals, and can be easily input in your daily diet, as they can be applied to your smoothie, as eaten at a rough snack. Seeds grow in popularity through the years and many people are already familiar with them. Such favorites are chea, hemp seed, flax seed, pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, quinoa.

7.    Sweet potato.

They are grown worldwide, and provide a number of health benefits, plus they are easy to add to your diet. Powerful source of beta carotene, vitamin C, and potassium. Beta carotene is crucial because your body converts it to vitamin A, which plays an important role in boosting immune function.

8. Low-Fat Yogurt.

Either put it in your smoothie, or eat it plain, topped with some fruits and/or honey, yogurt is a perfect food for the immune system as it contains active cultures of probiotics that stimulate the immune response to fight infections.

9. Red peppers.

Believe it or not, red peppers contain more than 200 percent of your daily intake of vitamin C, as there are 152 milligrams of vitamin C in only just one medium-sized red bell pepper. Paprika and chilli peppers also meet the same benefits, but with extra capsaicin, a chemical that can produce a strong burning sensation in the mouth. they’re also a good source of folate and B6, packed with a set of antioxidants.

10.    Fish and fish products.

There are some kinds of fish that are very high in omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon, mackerel, oysters, sardines, and anchovies. Fish products like caviar and fish oil are also a good source, as there is an amazing amount  of 1,086 mg per tablespoon (14.3 grams).

Although boosting your immunity during a pandemic situation is not that hard, eating superfoods can’t fight the coronavirus, it can only support your body in decreasing the inflammation and strengthen your interpower to overtake the 1-year invader.  

As the placebo is still not an option, you should be more careful than usually, and always call the doctor, when the symptoms occur. However, little help is all we need right now, and it’s a relief we can easily find it at the grocery store.

MVS Pharma GmbH is an innovative pharmaceutical start-up company, which researches in the area of reducing viruses and bacteria with plant based aerosols. Their special formula ensures the purity and the stability of the used ingredients during storage.

Liliya Ganeva is an article writer, who explores all the actual, up-to-date COVID-19 information, and the possibilities for producing aerosols made out of plants against respiratory viruses and bacteria.

 

Which COVID-19 Vaccine Is The Best

 

To get a COVID-19 vaccine in Baden-Württemberg  or not to get? And if I do, which one is the best for me? – that’s what’s circulating in the global society for sometime now. And while the Shakespeare question still remains, the massive immunisation is still in progress. Still, there are many people who simply don’t trust these unique, miracle-making jabs, and refuse going in front of the camera to advertise this. But if we’re realistic, that’s the only decision scientists may come to for such a short period of time. They aren’t going to invent any alternatives.

There are 4 types of vaccines authorized for common use in the EU: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson Janssen.  Both Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) and Moderna are messenger RNA (mRNa) vaccines, which basically means they contain the genetic code (mRNA) of the spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When entering human bodies, they teach our cells how to recognize it, and produce antibodies, in order to protect us.

Unlike them, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine are viral vector DNA vaccines and don’t contain any part of the COVID-19 virus itself, but a tiny part of a modified different virus (vector), which again sends instructions for making a protein that will trigger an immune response.  The Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccines use a chimpanzee common cold viral vector, called adenovirus, also known as ChAdOx1.

So let us all take our time in weighing the pros and cons of the  approved vaccines that went through all stages of testing, having in mind that currently 74 vaccines are now  in clinical trials on humans, and 21 have reached the finals.

1. Pfizer-BioNTech 

Pros:

• Consists of 2 shots, 21 days apart in the muscle of the upper arm. Each dose is 0.3 ml. Each vial contains up to 6 doses.
• 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 1 week after the second dose.

Cons:

• Recommended for people, aged over 16
• Mild to moderate side effects, like fever, muscular pain, tiredness can occur within 7 days after being vaccinated.
• You must store it at temperatures between -80ºC and -60ºC up to 6 months, shipped in specially designed containers for up to 30 days and can be refrigerated before mixing up to 5 days.

2. Moderna.

Pros:

• Consists of  2 shots, one month (28 days) apart in the muscle of the upper arm. Each dose is 0.5 ml. Each vial contains up to 10 doses.
• 94.1% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 illness in people who received two doses who had no evidence of being previously infected.

Cons:

• Recommended for people, aged over 18
• Mild to moderate side effects, like fever, muscular pain, tiredness can occur within 7 days after being vaccinated.
• Storage and shipment must be at temperatures  between -25ºC and -15ºC up to 6 months, can be stored in a standard refrigerator up to 30 days and refrigerated up to 12 hours.

3. Oxford-AstraZeneca.

Pros:

• Consists of  2 shots, 4 – 12 weeks apart in the muscle of the upper arm. Each dose is 0.4 ml/0,5 ml. Each vial contains up to 8/10 doses.
• 84,2% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 illness in people who received two doses .

Cons:

• Recommended for people, aged over 18
• Mild to moderate side effects, like fever, muscular pain, tiredness can occur within 7 days after being vaccinated.
• Doesn’t require any special storage. Can be stored in a standard refrigerator up to 6 months, up to 6 hours after vials opening.

4. Janssen Johnson & Johnson

Pros:

• A single-dose vaccine, put in the muscle of the upper arm. Each dose is 0,5 ml. Each vial contains up to 5 doses.
• 66,1% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Cons:

• Recommended for people, aged over 18
• Mild to moderate side effects, like fever, muscular pain, tiredness can occur within 2-3 days after being vaccinated.
• Doesn’t require any special storage. Can be stored in a standard refrigerator up to 3 months, up to 6 hours after vials opening.

No matter what you do, stay safe!

However, if you have a severe allergic reaction to any ingredient of this vaccine, then it’s not an option for you. In most countries, the decision among the 4 finalists is not entirely in your hands, and only getting a vaccine, available at the moment, is vulnerable. 

Reaching the global herd community against coronavirus is only possible only if we all participate in the whole process, and although it’s still a long-term goal we’re all looking forward to it. Apart from that, it is presumed that once you get infected,  you will be protected from further infections, or at least you’ll have less severe disease. So stay informed, choose wisely and no matter what you do, stay safe!

MVS Pharma GmbH is an innovative pharmaceutical start-up company, which researches in the area of reducing viruses and bacteria with plant based aerosols. Their special formula ensures the purity and the stability of the used ingredients during storage.

Liliya Ganeva is an article writer, who explores all the actual, up-to-date Covid-19 in Baden-Württemberg information, and the possibilities for producing aerosols made out of plants against respiratory viruses and bacteria.