Could the Dodgers Really Field Two MLB Teams?

Mark you forgot diet. Alternating meals between double cheeseburgers (no veggies) and cheese pizza (no meat toppings). That’s sure to kill you before the virus!

I’ve noticed that since Badger started up, his BS agenda’s have become very friggen important and what this site is about has become secondary

I was sent this today:

Personal Action Steps for Avoiding the Coronavirus

Source: 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

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The following basic nutritional ADULT response is recommended if there is an imminent threat (e.g. coronavirus case recently reported in your area).

1. Quinton Marine Plasma Isotonic: Two ampoules per day 15-30 minutes before meals. One ampoule per day 30 min before bedtime.

2. Vit C (ascorbic or mineral ascorbates): 3000-5000 mg/day in divided doses to minimize diarrheal response. Active Ribose C is the preferred form to minimize side-effects..

3. Vit D3: 10000 IU per day for two weeks then 5000 IU per day

4. Magnesium: 400-800 mg per day as citrate or malate

5. Zinc: 20-30 mg per day as zinc methionate

6. Selenium: 200-400 micrograms per day as L-selenomethionine

7. B-complex: 400 mg B-complex

Vitamin C and CoronaVirus

If, by the end of today, YOU and your family members are NOT taking a minimum of 500 milligrams, per day, of Vitamin C may God help you…

Get with the program people. Stop being Big Pharma sheeples…

The liberal media is NOT telling the public that literally TONS of Vitamin C is being shipped into Wuhan, China to treat, and stop, their CoronaVirus outbreak. They are also not telling anyone that the city of Shanghai (population 24.2 million) has adopted Vitamin C as their treatment of choice. I am hearing reports that the country of Taiwan is doing the same.

So, what the hell is wrong with the United States of America?

Listen closely – go out and buy a family sized bag of Vitamin C right now. Read the rest of this article later if you have to. Get whatever form you can get…

I’m 76 years old – so by the media’s estimate I’m first in line to die of the CoronaVirus. No thanks, I’m busy that day…

I take a minimum of 2,500 milligrams of Vitamin C per day, and have been for years, in powder form stirred into sixteen (16) ounces of water. If I feel a cold, or allergies, coming on I’ll double that by taking more six hours later.

I get my “China Free” Vitamin C from a secret source. You can buy your Vitamin C anywhere you want, but try to get the best quality. Try to get the Ascorbic Acid variety as your first choice.

The stuff I get, when mixed with sixteen ounces of water, tastes like a very good pink lemonade, and I use it as the liquid to take my supplements every morning.

What supplements does an old guy like me take, you ask? Besides the Vitamin C, I take two 425 mg Magnesium Malate (old guys need magnesium), three Prostrate Formula (yup, I’m there), two 1000 mg Triphala (look this one up), two 2,500 mg Flax Seed/Fish Oil Complex, two 500 mg Vitamin B12 (keeps me pretty), one 500 mg Selenium, two 5,000 mg D3 (sunshine in a capsule), and a blood pressure pill (I’m married, and sometimes we don’t always agree).

Andrew Saul, over at the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service writes:

“Shanghai Government Officially Recommends Vitamin C for COVID-19”

(OMNS Mar 3, 2020) The government of Shanghai, China has announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with high amounts of intravenous vitamin C. (1) Dosage recommendations vary with severity of illness, from 50 to 200 milligrams per kilogram body weight per day to as much as 200 mg/kg/day.

These dosages are approximately 4,000 to 16,000 mg for an adult, administered by IV. This specific method of administration is important, says intravenous therapy expert Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD, because vitamin C’s effect is at least ten times more powerful by IV than if taken orally. Dr. Yanagisawa is president of the Tokyo-based Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy. He says, “Intravenous vitamin C is a safe, effective, and broad-spectrum antiviral.”

Richard Z. Cheng, MD, PhD, a Chinese-American specialist physician, has been working closely with medical and governmental authorities throughout China. He has been instrumental in facilitating at least three Chinese clinical IV vitamin C studies now underway. Dr. Cheng is presently in Shanghai continuing his efforts to encourage still more Chinese hospitals to implement vitamin C therapy incorporating high oral doses as well as C by IV.

Dr. Cheng and Dr. Yanagisawa both recommend oral vitamin C for prevention of COVID-19 infection.

This could be fake news, or not…

– China has closed down its last coronavirus hospital.

Not enough new cases to support them.

– Indian Doctors successful in treating Corona. Combination of drugs used: Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine.

They are going suggest same medicine globally.

– Researchers of the Erasmus Medical Center claim to have found an antibody against coronavirus.

– A 103-year-old Chinese grandmother has made a full recovery from COVID-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan, China.

– Apple reopens all 42 china stores,

– Cleveland Clinic develops COVID-19 test that gives results in hours, not days.

– Good news from South Korea, where the number of new cases is declining.

– Italy is hit hard, experts say, only because they have the oldest population in Europe.

– Wuhan celebrates the closure of the last temporary hospital in Wuhan.

– Scientists in Israel likely to announce the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

– 3 Maryland coronavirus patients fully recovered; able to return to everyday life.

– Two more Filipinos have recovered from COVID-19 and is now discharged from the hospital. Only two Filipino COVID-19 positive patients remain in hospital isolation.

– A network of Canadian scientists are making excellent progress in Covid-19 research.

– A San Diego biotech company is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with Duke University and National University of Singapore.

– Tulsa County’s first positive COVID-19 case has recovered. This individual has had two negative tests, which is the indicator of recovery.

– All 7 patients who were getting treated for at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi have recovered.

– Plasma from newly recovered patients from Covid -19 can treat others infected by Covid-19.

I am checking it out.

I live in the Boise area. My 3 children and 9 grandkids live here. Thanks for the well wishes. I stopped going to mass and communion because of this stuff. I have to laugh a little. When I got sick on Sunday, I said to myself, well if you have to be sick, this a a good time. I can watch baseball, college basketball and golf. So much for that thought. I do have this blog.

I am to not going to comment as to whether there is too much press coverage or not enough. I prefer more information, but I prefer it from limited sources I trust. Fill me up with facts and leave out the editorial commentary.

But why I really wanted to write today is too wish Idahoal and Bear good health and let you know I will be praying for you to get well soon.

I know we have at least 4 excellent attorneys on this blog. Wonder if we have any doctors or ets. Would like to hear some of their input. Also, what are the chances MLB cancels the whole minor league season now that a player has been tested positive for the virus? It would be a real shame.

Get well soon Bear and also anyone else not feeling up to par or ill.

I have been under the weather since a week ago Thursday. Started out as a sore throat, and then my eyes were burning and I had a mucus buildup in them. I went to the VA and they sent me to an urgent care center. Turned out, I have a sinus infection and a bladder infection. The bladder infection helped with the sore throat, and the sinus caused everything else. I am taking huge antibiotic horse pills twice a day, and everything is starting to calm down. Ate the first solid food I have had in a week and a half today. This is about as bad as I have felt in years. No baseball, so I have been watching old Laugh-In shows, and going through my collection of baseball movies. There are a couple of baseball themed movies on TCM< Alibi Ike, and Elmer the Great. Pretty funny stuff.

Hope you and your wife are well soon, Idahoal. Please take care. That influenza is scary also.

I spent an hour and a half on the phone with a medical researcher friend and my head is spinning. He claims that deuterium depleted water is the most amazing discovery of our lifetime.

https://selfhacked.com/blog/deuterium-depleted-water/

I have been reading about this for over a year, but he has been at the forefront of research into water for 50 years.

Well let me tell you what happened to me. Sunday I started to get sick. On Thursday I was really sick. I had a dry hacking cough, a fever, and short of breath. All the requirements for the Coronavirus. But, I did not travel anywhere. I ended up in the ER. They tested me for 17 different viruses. I had influenza A. I had the flu shot. I am 80 this year. Probably as sick as I have ever been. Doc said it would take 2 weeks to get over this. My wife and I quarantined ourselves. This is going to be hard on the elderly. Many on this blog are older. Be careful. We do not want to lose anyone.

Bobby – was a great night- loved everyone and everything and you’ll be pleased to know I kept myself well hydrated.

Just been out with my family for my Mum’s 83rd Birthday lunch.

Was very very quiet – lots of people staying home.

Our Government are telling anyone over the age of 70 to self isolate for up

to 4 months while the Virus peaks.

This is gonna be a long struggle.

Stay safe everyone.

I don’t want to embarrass some of you, so I will just say:

I did not say the media drove the virus.

I said the media drove the frenzy.

Learn to read damn English and quit putting FAKE words in my mouth!

I dislike that game very much.

I am relatively certain that this kills coronavirus:

http://www.retail.stelmos.com/products/cocktail-sauce/

Everytime.

Whether it is media driven or not, whether it is political or not, I offer no opinion (although I do have my opinions). What I do see is that in a matter of a week or two, our government controls all sporting events, concerts, entertainment, jobs, colleges, medical facilities, whether or not you can leave your house, it has con tributed to the depletion of certain resources such toilet paper and food, and they control travel, they control virtually everything about us, there is mass panic and hysteria, and folks, the control will become more invasive, all over a virus – a virus for which the survival rate is extremely high and which the vast majority of people can not articulate the symptoms or how they differ from the common cold. That was easy, and it happened in under two weeks. Moreover, there is nothing we can do about it. Next, it will become a situation of where people will become ostracized in public should they cough in a public setting, or touch their face without immediately washing their hands. We can’t do anything about individuals pooping in the streets of San Francisco, but it won’t be long before neighbors turn in neighbors if they suspect they have the virus and aren’t following the government mandates.

If you further wonder how and why we got here, I would invite anyone to do some research o Event-201, hosted by the WHO, the UN, John Hopkins University, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the CDC and other medical leaders from various countries, where in October of last year, before the virus had been detected anywhere in the world, they laid out this very playbook for a pandemic. It makes for very interesting research.

I also think the Dodgers have the depth to field 2 very competitive teams, that probably would not win the WS, but could make it to the playoffs.

First ballplayer reported to have tested positive for COVID-19. He’s in the Yankee farm system and that side of their camp had already been closed as of Friday.

I believe MLB has now also issued an edict that prohibits organized workouts at team training sights. Maybe I misinterpreted what I heard, but does unorganized workouts lead to fewer cases of transmitting this thing? If so, maybe being disorganized is a good thing.

… but you can’t beat a good lather with anti-bacterial soap for 30 seconds.

Everclear works well too…

I have thought several times over this abbreviated spring training that we had enough depth to field two competitive teams. I like the idea Mark, thanks. As far as the virus is concerned, I wish everyone to be well and safe and take the recommendations offered if it applies to you. My daughter made a suggestion to me that she saw on TV, I think. If you run out of hand sanitizer, you can make some by adding a little alcohol to Aloe Vera. Sounds good to me.

Thanks Mark for

” I Remember “

A neighbor who watches tons of sports in his den said this on day 2 of the sports quarantine. Saw a lady sitting on the coach. It was my wife. She seemed nice.

West Virginia is only state that hasn’t reported cases. Maybe it’s teeth related. Or, maybe chewing tobacco is a vaccine.

As one who has been in quarantine for the past two weeks, let me say Mark’s comments about this whole thing being a media-driven frenzy is asinine, to put it the politest way I can.

Wake up, Mark!

What I learned today.

There are people who comment here that drink concoctions I would never have thought was drinkable. This all started by eating bats. I added that last sentence to bring this back to baseball.

Meant to say, along with those immunity boosting supplements……..

It is not possible to address ANYTHING about the corona virus without getting political. We simply will not go there. PERIOD. When Trump closed flights from China on January 31st Biden and the DNC called him a racist. Yea we’d be in such better shape if only Biden was in charge.

Garlic my friends, raw garlic.

I’m in the high risk age group, we can’t change our ages or genetics, but we can boost our immune system. That’s our best defense against any virus.

Along with those immune boosting supplements Bobby and others mentioned let me suggest raw garlic, chop it up, swallow it down with water and ACV . Not only will it boost the system it will keep the crowds away also.

Vit C, sleep, moderate exercise all a must for healthy immunity.

I liked your Dodgers A and B team Mark. I posted a week or so back an a/b position players lineup using what I thought were the best players on the A team. My point was to show even the second level players would be competitive with most of the other teams. When you put the pitching staff on the lineup card it really shows you the depth the Dodgers going forward especially when you take into account how young the guys are. Good read this morning.

As a former journalist, what constitutes journalism today is a joke. It’s agenda driven, slanted and honestly not many know how to write a fact based straight story. Television is worse with talking heads everywhere. This isn’t actually new, it has been heading in that direction for many years.

Technically, social media sites, such as this one, are now considered to be media. Although many of the stories appearing here are similar to the old columns appearing in newspapers and magazines, there are straight information stories as well.

So is Mark a journalist? Yes, I think he qualifies. I will not compare him to Bill Plaschke because that would probably send him to the ledge, but both write opinion based columns.

It’s good that Mark thinks about his employees, it indicates he understands that they are part of his extended family and the foundation of his business.

As to the Coronavirus, it’s important to use common sense and listen to health care experts. The new model has this peaking between April and June. This too shall pass, then maybe we can get back to baseball and other fun activities.

Stay safe folks.

“there have only been 15 cases of COVID-19 in Indiana”

if you really believe that every other Indiana resident aside from these 15 are coronavirus free you are out of your mind. Nobody knows they have it because people are not being tested and/or are still asymptomatic! Please don’t think the virus has stopped spreading within the borders of Indiana.

Wat, hope you drank a few jugs of water my friend!

“The truth is that this is a media-driven frenzy.”

Oh my.

Change the channel Mark.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you part of the media?

I happen to think the media serves a valuable purpose. Yes, they tend to sensationalize stuff to gain readership but they also keep people (read politicians) honest (or at least somewhat honest).

OK, I’m sure your last comment will draw lots of opinions Mark, as it has motivated me to respond but I’d like to make my contribution to today’s post with a totally unrelated and very funny tweet.

As this person points out, not all sports have been canceled.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1238859529393070081