The
bowling attack may be good – be it
bowlers swinging wild or spinners turning crazy – you need a good slip cordon –
slip fielding is an art. Fielding in the slips is quite strenuous.
Bending at the knees when the bowler starts his run up and staying still in the
process needs a lot of strength and muscle endurance to withstand fatigue. For
the slip fielder, standing in the slips for 90 overs – 540 deliveries – in a
day can be quite tiresome and the fielder may lose concentration due to
fatigue, which can prove costly for his team. Hence a relaxed stance that puts
less strain on mind and body is required.
.. .. .. more importantly, the fielder should not be standing too close
to the other ie., both should not be diving for the same catch !
Our childhood
offered myriad opportunities of bliss and friendships – if you were the
fortunate one to study in the same school, the bonding perhaps could be more.
Do your remember your classmates and friends who were intimate to you say 30 or
40 years ago !
At Hindu High
School when I studied +2 (we have a WA group of this classmates) – each bench
would sit 5 – it was N Ravichandran, S Vijayaraghavan (unfortunately no more),
Myself, MVR Raman & SP Soundararajan.
At DG Vaishnav – one had no opportunity of selecting bench-mates, but
had to sit according to their Roll Nos – mine was 1247 – so I sat with 45, 46,
47 & 48.
One could develop
friendship at so many places – it was the street that one lived, the street or
friend’s home(s) most visited, beach cricket, Hindi class, Divyaprabandha
class, Typewriting, Shorthand classes, the institutions that one worked. My first employment was with R Subbaraman
& Co (Sole Agents of Cutfast Bonded Abrasives) – a small office cum godown
[I learnt what was coated and bonded abrasive !) – then when you work in bigger
Organisation, it is more fragmented of Kamala Arcade Branch, DO 3, Do2 @ Lotus
Court, DO Kakinada and its branches, Ro and ,.. .. .. then 2 private Insurance
Company experiences have made me richer with lot of friends (that some trusted
friends could misbehave is a different painful chapter altogether)
My previous Company
provided lunch and people would mostly frequent in groups for lunch and occupy
tables together – again lunch would provide a good opportunity to dine and
speak to colleagues with whom you have greater bonding. Life had been
beautifully spent with people whom we knew, we liked and for whom the liking
kept growing as there were more and more time of togetherness.
Forget
playing Cricket or slip-catching – Covid-19 has turned the World upside down –
no more the friendly handshakes or tight hugs – people are advised to keep
distance, say Namasthe with folded hands.
Social distancing, also called “physical distancing,” means keeping
space between yourself and other people outside – best advice is to stay at least
6 feet (2 meters) from other people; not to gather in groups and keep away from
crowded places, avoid mass gatherings !
In addition to everyday steps to prevent COVID-19, keeping space between
you and others is one of the best tools.
This is because, COVID-19 spreads mainly among people who are in close
contact (within about 6 feet) for a prolonged period. Spread happens when an
infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks, and droplets from their mouth or
nose are launched into the air and land in the mouths or noses of people
nearby. The droplets can also be inhaled into the lungs.
Assam chief
minister Sarbananda Sonowal asked the Deputy Commissioners to constitute
monitoring cells which will be exclusively mandated to inspect the social
distancing norms including health and hygiene protocols of the workers engaged
in the tea gardens. Considering the
importance of tea in the economic health of the state as well as in the
country, though some tea gardens were allowed to resume their functioning with
minimum work force, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal stressed on adequate social distancing norms for the tea
gardens in the changing socio-economic landscape emanated in the aftermath of
the novel coronavirus outbreak in the state.
Unless a
vaccine against the novel coronavirus is found, social distancing measures may
continue for a year in Australia, the country's premier said on Friday. Scott
Morrison underlined that there was no guarantee that a coronavirus vaccine will
be developed, the daily Sydney Morning Herald reported.
A new
study by Harvard University suggests some form of social distancing may be
needed intermittently well into 2022, in the absence of vaccines, to prevent
frequent coronavirus outbreaks. After
looking at computer simulations of how the virus may spread over the next five
years, based on data of two beta-coronaviruses in US, the researchers concluded
that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19 in humans, is unlikely to
behave like its closest cousin, SARS-CoV-1, and won’t be eradicated by
intensive public health measures after causing a brief pandemic.
With
all this read this interesting ! report in MailOnline which states that
employees should sit next to a colleague,
'they dislike the most' to keep
social distancing when they return to work after the coronavirus lockdown, a
medical expert has suggested.
Zhang Wenhong, head
of the COVID-19 expert team in Shanghai, said on Wednesday that office workers
should sit next to people they don't get along with to avoid chatting as a way
to prevent the spread of the virus. It
comes as people in China have slowly returned to work and their normal lives
after cities across the country eased travel restrictions. The former epicentre
Wuhan, where the outbreak began, lifted its 76-day lockdown on April 8. But
officials fear that the spike of 'imported cases' from inbound travellers and
regional outbreaks could spoil the country's progress to post-virus recovery.
Zhang Wenhong, head
of the COVID-19 expert team in Shanghai, made the remarks while attending a video
conference with Europe-based Chinese companies and overseas students on
Wednesday. The meeting was held to discuss the current epidemic in Europe and
answer questions about personal protection against the bug, according to the
press. Mr Zhang said that the pandemic, which has infected over two million
people globally, is unlikely to end within a short period of time. It would
become a common practice for people to keep social distancing after they return
to work. He advised office workers to 'listen more
and talk less' during work meetings to reduce the risk of spreading the
contagion.
The chief medic
from the Huashan Hospital, Zhang Wenhong, also recommended people to ‘avoid
doing mediocre work so that the boss wouldn’t talk to you’. 'Or you can find people you dislike the most
to sit with,' Mr Zhang added. 'You would only chat with people you're friendly
with, you know what I mean? 'You see this person that you've never spoken to
since you came into the company, try to sit next to them. 'You leave straight
after the meeting, run as fast as you can,' said the doctor. Mr Zhang
continued: 'When you do an amazing job, the boss would think 'there is no point
talking to you since you've finished all of the work'. The 51-year-old medic has gained tens of
millions of followers on social media for his down-to-earth style of speech
during the coronavirus outbreak, according to the press. Chinese web users even
dubbed him as 'Dad Zhang'.
It sounds more
comical than any sound medical advice though ! - Officials in China in affected
Province said many fatal cases were 'mistakenly reported' or missed entirely in
an admission that comes amid growing global doubts about Chinese transparency. Covid has for sure changed the way people
have been living and socializing !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
17.4.2020.
No comments:
Post a Comment