You can turn off your video if you don't like it, or just simply not call into the zoom meeting.
Posts by sir82
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12Invading our homes
by road to nowhere inthey want our zoom cameras on with them in control, and extra " encouragemrnt" to be broadcast each day.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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sir82
Florida might be worse, but it’s not a country.
It is kind of its own little universe but it is part of the USA. Thanks in part to Florida, expect the USA numbers to dwarf everywhere else soon.
Do they have many cases so far?
Undoubtedly, but no one knows for sure since there is a grave shortage of tests available.
It's almost like it was easier to think it was all a "hoax" and do nothing until people actually started, you know, dying.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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sir82
Even if the UK dramatically altered course tomorrow and shut down, it will still have been far slower
than most other countries have managed. It is a complete disaster.I dunno, if you count "Florida" as a country:
-- bars & nightclubs open until 3 days ago
-- beaches open until 2 days ago, and still technically up to local jurisdictions about whether to close them
-- thousands or tens of thousands of college-age spring breakers, after mingling in that environment for multiple days, are now driving back home, undoubtedly a huge proportion of them carrying the virus with them to infect their home towns.
I would not be surprised if Florida, with so many people 65+ and being even worse prepared for testing than most of the rest of the USA, just by itself surpasses the UK's, or even Italy's, overall death count.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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sir82
Why would you think it's a conspiracy?
Growth in the US is still exponential, even with only the inadequate testing done so far. Within about a month, if things go as they have up until now, we're going to need a few hundred, or a few thousand, of those field hospitals.
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Can You Believe This Insanity From Lett!
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara incan you believe this gibberish coming out of their mouths now; specifically from the clown-horse's own mouth :.
"things unfolding around us are making clear that ...(wait for it).."we are living in the final part of the last days, undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days,shortly before the last day of the last days"!!!!!!!!!!!!.
i wonder what next...ummmmm...final part of the final part of the final part of the finalpart...(on a recurring loop), you get the idea!.
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sir82
Don't buy any green bananas!
It's closer than the inside of your eyelid!
Just ignore that this is the identical message we've been spouting every day for the past 141 years! This time - this time - we're sure we're right!
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So do you think the Russian brothers are saying "WTF" right now?
by nowwhat? inthey were told to risk imprisonment to keep meeting and preaching because "we must obey god rather than men".
while here in the u s. we voluntarily cancel meetings and preaching because "we need to be in subjection to the superior authorities".
thoughts?.
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sir82
Apples & oranges.
Be careful that your hatred for all things WTS doesn't make you irrational.
Would you be criticizing the WTS if they had taken the opposite position: "you must attend meetings, quarantine or no quarantine"? I suspect so.
I agree the WTS is worthy of all the rancor you can muster, but in this case they got it right - shut everything down, meetings, field service, everything, right now, and until further notice.
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Guns and ammo selling out fast
by JimmyYoung ini went to my local walmart today and most of the can goods and frozen foods were sold out.
i did a web search from where i buy ammo from, lucky gunner, sg ammo, buds and others.
bulk ammo is sold out just over night.
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sir82
will you be shooting the virus with your ammunition?
I think the idea is that he will shoot the people who want to take his toilet paper.
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Hot off the press - Maintaining Congregation Meetings During COVID-19 Pandemic
by pixel in27:23; sfl chap.
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sir82
Ya gotta love it.
A Skype meeting, with 40-60 technologically inept JWs who don't know how to "mute" - coughing, hacking, dogs barking, crackers crunching...."hello, hello? Is this thing on?" ....you can hear everything except the "speaker" giving his talk.
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CDC recommends no events of more than 50 people for next eight weeks
by Quandary inhttps://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487702-cdc-recommends-no-events-of-50-or-more-people-for-next-eight-weeks.
let's see what "mother" directs in view of this latest news..
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sir82
I suspect they will direct that the Memorial be observed in field service groups, in private homes.
If things get much worse, they might even direct everyone to stay at home and watch via streaming.
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Baptisms exceeding 300K last year – a possible reason
by Viva la Vida intwo facts to consider: 1) most baptisms take place during assemblies and conventions; 2) the theocratic year goes from september to august.
my theory: the borg changed the calendar of conventions and assemblies so to concentrate the baptisms in a single theocratic year.
if some conventions used to take place in july/august, for the 2018 series they moved them to september.
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sir82
Doesn't seem likely - that would provide for a one year boost, but the following year the numbers would go right back down again.
What is far more likely:
Like it or not, JWs continue to have success in making converts in poor countries and/or countries where internet access is far less widespread than in North America & Europe. Their message of "your wealthy oppressors are all going to be killed by God soon, and then you will live in their place in paradise, if you just do what we say" is appealing to people who live in rickety hovels with dirt floors with no opportunity to escape poverty.
Those increases in South America & Africa are still (so far) more than offsetting the losses in NA, Europe, and Asia.