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Don't Let Them Steal Your Joy

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From the ISG, Robert James is saying pretty much the same thing I said yesterday in another thread; this too, will pass. ;)

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Don't Let Them Steal Your Joy

Editor's Note: I posted this short letter on Facebook last week and the response has been amazing. I am putting it into our newsletter today because as day's go by it seem more and more important that people hear this....perhaps for the second time. Rj

Today I am in the final stages of finishing the new ISG office, and once again started the day with the dramatic and panic-stricken stock market reports of the heinous “Coronavirus” that is being so widely touted. For all of you too young to remember, I wanted to put this situation in perspective in hopes that it might allay some fear that the media seems determined to create. While this virus is dangerous, so are measles, chickenpox and the mumps which used to simply be childhood diseases that we all got. It was just a part of growing up that you would get these, become immune and move on. I had all three as did every childhood friend I know. It was just part of growing up for generations. But years ago we had even more to deal with….

I remember standing in line as a child to get the sugar cube containing the vaccine for Polio and got the multiple needle pricks that gave me the smallpox vaccine. These were diseases that caused great harm and hardship around the world, and yet we moved forward and prevailed. Over the years we have all experienced the world with AIDS, Ebola and SARS. These things are part of living in a world where people easily and readily intermix around the world.

This is not to take away from the importance of preventing and dealing with this new player, Coronavirus, from the world of virus infections. However, I hope those too young to remember the history of dealing with these things will know that they do pass, and life goes on.

I find it unfortunate that the media is creating such panic that is causing so many to have intense fear and dread.

The world is not ending. Solutions will be found. Life will go on. Don’t let this situation steal your joy.

Please share this with those who might need to hear it:


Robert James FGA, GG

President, International School of Gemology

©2020 International School of Gemology. ALL RIGHTS RELEASED. Please share this with everyone that might benefit by knowing the world is not coming to an end due to this thing.

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Ill second the motion. The Earth bats last, is what I always say, and it always has. Life is what you make of it and selling ads with scary stories is no way to waste our precious time. Heck, most news is a direct waste in your personal space let alone attempts to make you buy something or think a certain way all around it.
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The Precautions to take against infection

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I do think I will cancel this springs shows and I'll just stay closer to home, which is virtually in quarantine. Probably go online full time. No fear, eyes open.

Written by: James Robb, MD FCAP
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Coronavirus:


Dear Family and Friends, 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 U.S. are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread 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 U.S.:

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 other brands are available as well.

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. Good luck to all of us, Dad/Jim.

James Robb, MD FCAP
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