Tips for staying healthy during COVID-19 Lockdown

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Pacific Family Health Journal

Here are some tips for keeping you in good health if you are living in one of the urban centres in PNG and in a lockdown situation.

  • Practice good sleep hygiene: Try to get enough sleep. I would recommend minimum 6 hours of sleep. This means latest for bedtime for adults maybe around 12am. Make sure your children also sleep early. Maybe latest at 10pm.
  • Keep yourself well hydrated: Lockdown is a stressful period. So keep yourself well hydrated by drinking a lot of water. Reduce high calorie drinks like soda (soft drinks). Try to reduce number of coffee cups late at night.
  • Keep physically active: There might be restriction on public areas so keep physically active by cleaning the house, re-arrange a few things in the house if you need and maybe start on a landscaping project around your house. Be active for at least 60 minutes a day or short 30 minute periods of being physically active throughout the day.
  • If you like writing as I do, why not start on a small book project and get it published. It will keep your mind focused and active on a positive goal.
  • Let kids have their playtime: Children react to stress differently to adults. Observe for changes in behavior such as increased or reduced appetite, change in sleep times, increased tantrums or not enjoying things they enjoy or refusing to play with their friends. Allow children to have their playtime if you can. More information can be found on the CDC website.
  • Avoid too much alcohol.
  • Avoid binge eating of junk food.
  • Avoid movie marathons: This has become a favorite pastime during lockdowns. Why not start reading a good book or novel? Get kids to do some school work or read as well, especially at night.

For those living in the smaller towns in PNG and rural and remote locations, I think the lockdown rules might not affect them as much as it would be for people living in crowded urban areas like Port Moresby, Lae, Mt. Hagen, Madang, Goroka and others.

Dr Rodney Itaki, MBBS, BMedSci

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  78. So to things:1) It depends entirely on the task you are trying to parallelize “Nick’s class” or “NC” is the category of algorithms considered to parallelize well, while “P” is the class of algorithms that are generally considered tractable to implement and run in a single threaded manner That is the same P as the P versus NP debate, and it’s generally considered that P is not likely equal to NP, and NC is not likely equal to P That whole there are no problem concrete examples, it’s expected that some tractable single threaded algorithms do not parallelize well 2) The number of lines in a program tells you literally nothing about it’s runtime If they only run once each in order, even an e-core of a older budget chip will handle 2000 lines of script faster than you can blink On the other hand, even a few hundred lines would be more than sufficient to (try to) print out the Goodstein sequence of an input number For an input of 3, this runs quickly, outputting 6 numbers For an input of 4 it will eventually to output over 1e100,000,000 numbers, most with over 100 million digits each Determining how long a program can run based on just on the program size is actually so difficult that it is *literally impossible*

  127. An intriguing discussion is worth comment. I do think that you should publish more on this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but generally folks don’t speak about such topics. To the next! Best wishes!!

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