I am wide wide awake at 2 in the morning because of a vice that i cannot seem to break. I love love love Iced Tea! I am truly happy if I can have my fix of black shaken tea with grapefruit and honey from #starbucks. Once in awhile, I have dinner meetings to stretch my work day. This meeting led me to one of my super fave outlets at the #PeninsulaManila , Spices. Who could resist the siren call of that Thai Iced Tea? I know I couldnt, I really shouldn’t but heck you only live once and besides, “oh no no no, its not going to happen to me!” ” i WILL be able to sleep by 12 or maybe 1 latest.” Yeah right, its 2:11 am and I’m super awake.
Why? Why did I think I could get away with it?!? what is in our payche that makes us believe we are invincible? In Psychology, this is what is called the Optimism Bias. It is when you think that the negative things happening will not happen to YOU; That somehow, you are immune to it. This tendency to optimism can be good, it makes us able to cope with life better. But there are times when we shouldn’t count on blind luck.
In our country, Dengue has always been an issue at least for the last 10 years ( or at least in my awareness) now that there is a vaccine available, why arent people scrambling to get it? Optimism Bias at work? Several news outlets have also been reporting cases of Japanese encephalitis. It also has a vaccine, in fact, there are claims that vaccines are getting out of stock.
EcompareMo has a Dengue Specific insurance that will protect your pocket in case you do get dengue and in case pure confidence fails and you get bitten. For a very affordable amount of 150 pesos, you can get insured for that one year time period. You can be reimbursed up to 30,000 per confinement with a maximum of two claims in a year. Who wants to get dengue twice in a year? And there is our Optimism bias there! Admit it, you told yourself ” Nah, thats not gonna happen to me!”
Hopefull it won’t, but if it does, it is nice to know that there is an insurance product out there that is as cheap as buying a chicken joy meal plus peach mango pie!
You can go to their website at http://www.ecomparemo.com for details on how to buy this dengue insurance called EcompareMo Bite protect.
Til the next blog!
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