As a single-party state, with large and well-organized military and security services, Viet Nam has been able to make decisions quickly and enact them promptly. There is also a strong culture of surveillance, with people expected to inform on their neighbours if they suspect any wrong-doing. Source
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656Covid-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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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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cofty
The key thing for the UK is to make sure that the NHS can cope. So far nobody has been refused a ventilator who needed one and there is spare capacity.
Pending an effective drug or vaccine it's about managing the risk
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cofty
Anon it's a mistake to confuse the issue with reference to things that are logically impossible.
Stick to reality.
God created a world perfectly designed to maximize the suffering of conscious creatures. He subsequently has done nothing to alleviate that situation.
That doesn't make a god impossible but it does destroy the god of Christianity.
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cofty
Cofty, you dismiss God because you lost faith in your invested faith in what men have told you
Joan do you ever read a single word your interlocutor says or do you just keep typing regardless?
How many times do I have to tell you that after I left the Watchtower I became a born-again christian for a decade. I was a 'real' christian. Born-again, forgiven, saved, justified by faith, adopted son of god. I lived and breathed the gospel every day. I preached justification by faith alone. Sola Scriptura. My gospel was simple - 'By his stripes you are healed'. It was diametrically opposed to my former beliefs as a JW.
My ultimate loss of faith and adoption of reason was NOTHING to do with my previous life as a JW and EVERYTHING to do with the irrational nature of christian faith. Stop spouting banal platitudes and try engaging in an actual conversation.
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cofty
Ah the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy. I was waiting for that.
Every cult dismissing their 'apostates' as never being genuine members.
Joan - You are no less a cult member than any JW.
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cofty
Dr Who - Nobody is suggesting that an omnipotent god should be able to do things that are logically impossible. You are inventing a straw man because theism is destroyed by its own internal contradictions.
The god who created a planet that is perfectly designed to maximise the suffering of conscious creatures is either useless or evil.
Occam's razor suggests he is simply a figment of human imagination.
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Does prophesy negate free will?
by Tim207 innot sure if this is in the right subject but here it goes.
i’ve asked this question to a few elders and bethelites but they don’t seem to understand or like the question.
to start off we have to agree that jehovah is all powerful.
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cofty
MMM - You are missing the point.
The god of xtian theism knows every single thing I will ever say, think or do in minute detail.
Therefore the book of my life from conception to death is already written in stone (the god of the WT chooses not to read the book - an irrelevant detail)
Therefore I have no freedom to choose otherwise.
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cofty
^^^ Priceless ^^^
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Has Anyone Had Chinese Food Lately?
by minimus insince this virus, i have noticed that nearly all of the take out joints in my area are closed.
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cofty
I miss Chinese food. The blame lies with the CCP not with our Chinese neighbours or the Chinese population.
On the other hand I will go out my way in future never to buy goods made in China.