Please don’t get hurt doing dumb stuff in the middle of a pandemic. Your doctor is really busy right now.
Let’s start with the tried-and-tested practice of standing on a chair to get something from a high shelf or cabinet, instead of going down to the basement or garage to get the ladder. In 2017 I wrotethat, among other things, explicitly tells the reader to never, ever stand on a chair because of how unsafe it is. Yet somehow, years later, I’m still doing it. What’s the worst that could happen? One thing that happens thousands of times per year is that people fall and fracture a rib.
It might be best to assume that everything in your house is trying to kill you. Imagine a wine glass that needs to be washed—it whispers to you, “Do you want a piece of me ?” A drinking glass isn’t usually a sharp implement, but how many people show up to an ER each year after cutting themselves with a one? About 50,000.
It isn’t practical to avoid touching sharp objects until the pandemic passes. Glasses need to be washed, vegetables need to be chopped. But you can approach things more carefully. When handling any implement capable of doing damage, be aware of the direction in which you’re pushing. Imagine a knife being pushed through a bagel, a carrot, or a cardboard box. Or a sponge being pushed against the inside of a wine glass. Now imagine that implement going
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