Posted in Dumbarton FC at 21:00 on 9 July 2021
Scottish League Cup,* Group H, not The Rock, 10/7/21
No your eyes do not deceive you. The result of tomorrow’s game is as above. One of our players has tested positive for Covid and as a result the club has had no option but to ask for the game to be cancelled. It therefore suffers the penalty of a 3-0 loss.
Not a good start to the new season.
*Now apparently the Premier Sports Cup.
Posted in Curiosities, Science Fiction at 20:30 on 19 October 2020
The keener eyed among you will have seen from my side bar that I have just finished reading Chinese SF author Cixin Liu’s collection entitled Hold up the Sky.
In it there were two separate references to characters requiring medical procedures that were too expensive for them to afford.
I also heard on the TV news recently that those receiving a test dose of a vaccine newly produced in China against the Covid-19 causing coronavirus also needed to pay the equivalent of £45 pounds for the privilege.
China is reviled in certain quarters as being a Communist country.
I must say that on the evidence above China must be far from being even a socialist utopia, the minimum requirement for which I would have considered to be medical treatment free at the point of use.
