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Celtic Diary TuesdayMarch 10: Coronavirus , Cheltenham and Closure

I’ll keep this short, as I’ve heard you can pick up viruses from the laptop.

 

The word from the ranch is that when a certain number of confirmed cases of coronavirus is reached, the season will end.

It’s not just about the SFA and their plan B to stop the ten, it’s clearly more serious than that.

And if someone offers you a ticket for the euros, forget it.

They’re not going to happen.

In fact, we probably won’t have to worry about to the qualifiers either.

 

For those who think this is the usual tittle tattle we make up, see how many of the clubs multi million pound assets are at Cheltenham this week.

Italy has now ..or will today…enabled a sort of  Cattenaccio with it’s population. There is a complete lockdown.

China did it a few weeks ago.

They, at least, are taking it seriously.

There is a major problem with western capitalism thats about to be exposed.

 

No one can afford to take time off work.

 

In the meantime, read what our consultant  virologist has to say… well, sort of ours…he probably would be if we asked him.

 

 

James Robb, MD UC San Diego.

Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic

Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.

The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.

Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:

1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.

2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.

3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip – do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.

4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.

5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.

6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home’s entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can’t immediately wash your hands.

7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!

What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:

1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.

Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average – everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.

2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you – it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth – it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.

3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.

4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY “cold-like” symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are other brands available.

I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.

I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of us! Jim

James Robb, MD FCAP

 

Of course, we hear that one club is apparently in denial, and don’t want the league to shut down….just as one Prime minister thinks we should take it on the chin.

 

All about money for some….

Stay safe, and use a wee bit common sense.

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Devoy45
4 years ago

Thanks for the practical advice. As an old-timer, I am beginning to panic a bit.Scary. Any virus associated with snakes can’t be ignored! It would seem fair that if the season can’t finish then the matches must be made up or else the results accepted as whenever the season finishes. A whole season can’t be cancelled in retrospect! Closed doors would affect us the most, post-split, since we would have 3 home matches (the Orcs 2)

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Devoy45

Devoy,
I could move you in beside Mike & Henke, you can all sit together with your tartan blankets, watching reruns of ‘ Monarch of the Glen ‘ whilst reeking of pish.

henkesdreadlocks
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

…… and when the food runs out cannibalism will take over. I would imagine you’d be a lotto win for the hungry.

Mike
4 years ago

😉 Nom Nom Nom.

Andy
4 years ago

but saturated fat (basturds)is bad for you

Monti
4 years ago

🙂

Paddybhoy67
4 years ago

As soon as I see a product (the zinc lozenges) being promoted, I get suspicious. But this is genuine according to Snopes.

Andy
4 years ago
Reply to  Paddybhoy67

It makes sense often times metals are good at blocking the landing sites on viruses, bacteria and enzymes. That’s how lead and mercury kill you.

Paddybhoy67
4 years ago
Reply to  Andy

It’s Jozo’s defending that’s killing me, son.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Andy

Did ye aye?

BobbyRussell
4 years ago
Reply to  Paddybhoy67

Guys, worth a read about poss side effects from zinc, could make you worse, and taking too much can be dangerous.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=228691

Monti
4 years ago

“Common sense”?
Could you send a break down on that to Tic Toc.
I’m sure he’ll thoroughly read through it once ‘ a beautiful mind ‘ has finished. Cough.

* No need to worry about the cough bit, i have my gimp mask on.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Sorry, he’ll get someone to read it to him….slowly.

Mike
4 years ago

Haw, yeh forgot tae tell them tae mind and wash their ochies, we dinny want tae smell thon bowfing smell.
Brush their geggies or wallies every day. Change their pants at least twice a year and wash their bahooky’s tae. We dinny want any mocketness or mincy heids oan here. Remember tae be safe oot their.
Hearts gone astray and Celtic’s on their way.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Storm in a teacup 80 per cent of those admitted to hospital with Covid-19 have been released fit and well. Another SARS. A
Magic vaccine will appear soon making big pharma an obscene amount of money

4 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

In wuhan^^

Puggy67
4 years ago

He started medicine in 1965 so he is likely to be in his 80s now and entitled to be shiting it as are the mates he wrote it to. There’s 20% mortality in over 80s. I share Phaddybhoy’s concern over the lozenges bit but it’s fair advice over all. Maybe we should also ban the use of PISH until it’s over?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Puggy67

PISH

charlie
4 years ago

ffs sumdy screwed ma hoose last night and stole awe ma stockpiled toilet rolls and hand sanitizers………goodbye cruel world

jimmybee
4 years ago
Reply to  charlie

Serves you right for hijacking an an Asda lorry

charlie
4 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

heh heh

jimmybee
4 years ago

I’m no medical genius as a glass of buckle or a hot toady was always ma grans pick me up dont you just love your auld grannies
But capitalism is the real threat to this virus.
Wuhan was the place it started.
It has major textile links with Italy not then hard to imagine why Italy is bearing the brunt of the virus in Europe.
It should have been locked down by the governments as soon as the government of China declared the virus. But no let’s keep going and take it on the chin Boris has just said. FFS

Andy
4 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

Of course Boris said that his government just figured out they still can’t balance the budget. The less pensions being paid out the better is their view.

Puggy67
4 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

Ode to Billy Gilmour

Billy oh Billy
Who was so fucking silly
To let you aff the leash
When you’re ‘better than Dalglish’
For a fee that’s undisclosed
But even the Record knows
That as you stroke the baw
It’s the square root of fuck aw.
He must have been in the know
Him that let you go
For the price o’ Alfredo’s big toe.
Your only just a pup
But I’ll try to sum it up
It’s a colossal omni-fuck.
As they put you through your paces
And sponsors pay gold for your laces
They still owe the guy who painted faces.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Puggy67

It’s not tho is it?…

Puggy67
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Fill yer boots Wadsworth

SteveNaive
4 years ago

Guy near me cannot stop singing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin songs… think he’s got the crooner virus.
Mike, I put a clean pair of pants on every day…by the end of the week I can’t get my trousers on.
You’ve been a great audience.

Andy
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

The local pizza house over here has started selling a Corona Pizza! It’s so good it’ll take your breath away!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Andy

Boom Boom

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

Your welcome Ken, Ken! 😉

Mike
4 years ago

The best news for me, is that sheep cannot get coronavirus, there’s a spring in the lambs step, as they wear their woolly jerseys and jump about for joy, its one of life’s pleasures watching them every day bond with their mothers. Every day is a self isolating day, family apart watching and enjoying the team play is way up there in enjoyment. 55 years ago big Jock took over as Celtic manager, of course you were aware of him when he was vice captain of Celtic. When he went to the Pars as manager, I watched his team play Celtic at Hampden in the S.C. final 1960-1, we watched on as his managerial career took off and we knew then of the talent he carried. His Celtic appointment was greeted with such joy and excitement. When he passed in Wales as Scotland manager, grown hard men cried and cried. We will never forget you big man, till our last breath leaves our bodies.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

What about pensioner sheep?

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Ewe can watch them on ewe-tube.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

There’s Bluefaced Leicester, its got really white teeth and is always breaking breeding records and is always watching porn. Or,
Bluenosed Govan, which always stinks to high heaven, believes everything it hears, is self indulgent and is always on the take, never turn your back on them

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

😉

charlie
4 years ago

4 pack aldi toilet roll recycled in ma washin machine willing to swap for 3 bedroom hoose in newton mearns ……………nae time wasters

Devoy45
4 years ago
Reply to  charlie

Thanks Lads, feel better already!

BroxburnBhoy
4 years ago

They cancelled the Boston St Paddy’s Parade!! I thought alcohol killed this virus

SteveNaive
4 years ago

Beaton Ross Mulvaney and Robertson. An absolute disgrace for Celtic to remain quiet about this.
Such a brave man, Beaton. After death threats and all.

jimmybee
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

Just need them to grant a flute band to bring them onto the pitch
Fuckin disgraceful

4 years ago

Sir Rod?
Celtic’s Scottish international players?
They’ve either played, or will soon play, and bend the knee to a country that has….
colonised Palestinian’s, and dropped biological, chemical weapons in Wuhan, to fulfill a prophecy in a Hebrew bible! Wtf?
“The Game, The Game Is Over….The Rebels Have Gone!”
Jesus said “You have eyes, but you cannot see!”
I think Jesus must’ve been talking to Celtic season ticket holders, on that particular day.
Hail! Hail!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  KevJungle

Just seen the footage of that wee prick Novo, attacking a guy in the street on a night out?
I take it Police Scotland have arrested, charged & reported him to the procurator fiscal?

A nasty wee bastard!
Novo that is, not the PF.

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