According to my daughter, they are having meetings with only a handful of people (Zoom has limits on the free version) and last week they had a ‘family night’ and played games instead of the mid-week meeting. They aren’t going in field circus at all or getting dressed for the meeting. Must be just every locality deciding on their own what meetings should look like I guess.
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My congregation is something else!
by nowwhat? innot only do they want everyone dressed up for the zoom meetings( which i won't do) they decided to keep the zoom meeting at 1pm sunday!
so they don't upset their spiritual routine!
ugh!
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Coronavirus Positive
by snare&racket inhey all,.
i'm day six of isolation, confirmed to have coronavirus.
i have been seeing very sick cv positive patients over the last month in my a&e role (emergency physician) it was inevitable i would contract it.. just wanted to give some symptom and treatment advice, it's anecdotal but may help.. started as sore throat and headache, then croaky voice, then dry cough, then episodic transient fevers, all this over the first few days.
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Hope all goes well with your recovery.
How do you think you obtained it? Insufficient PPE? I work for a hospital system as well, we (luckily) haven’t yet seen any nurses/doctors get sick but we are opening 6 more emergency areas for a total of ~300 beds w/ ventilators across the system, converting part of the children’s hospital into an ED for pediatric subjects. We also got told that presence across the entire hospital requires PPE at all times.
Some research suggest it is an airborne pathogen (not just transferred via droplets), I’m just wondering if there is anecdotal evidence that would suggest even more strict protocols on movement and PPE within the hospital.
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What Covid-19 Has Taught Us About Models
by Simon inlet's talk about predictions.
"woooh, gaze into my crystal ball ...
woooo!!!".
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@JP There are always going to be experts that ‘foresee’ the need for medical equipment decades in advance. There will always be an emergency that some experts have warned us about could or will happen. The problem is that those things happen once every 100-150 years or so and there are always other things that at the moment are more critical.
In the 1970’s scientists foresaw an ice age by the year 2000’s. Global cooling was a real problem. Some foresaw the reliance on middle eastern oil as a problem, but pumping locally would’ve cost way more over all those decades. Someone has always seen a disaster coming, but a broken clock is right twice too.
The Netherlands saw a rising ocean and frequent storms. Not until their entire country was under water did they build levees and is now one of the largest storm water control systems. If they can build a levee so their country can remain several centimeters under sea level, any major country could do this. Even so, “experts” have adjusted their models from several meters in worst case scenario global warming to less than a meter.
As far as global warming (or as they now call it, climate change, as it is neither warming nor cooling appreciatively fast enough to satisfy the models), the US has been leading the world in reducing greenhouse emissions over the last 2-3 years, our greenhouse gasses went down whereas Europe’s and the rest of the world continued to go up. The effects of change are never taken into account in models. Like the COVID-19, the US is not going to see 2-3% death rates, because they did something good and early.
Sure thing the government could’ve done more, but the government is bad at everything and no other nation in the world has done any better. This just goes to show that we shouldn’t be relying on big government and that a small federal government with minimal regulation (it took FDA over a month to approve research and drug protocols, primarily due to extensive bureaucracy) and (as Trump has done correctly) let local/state governments deal with a localized response. China claims to have done really well, but RadioFreeAsia just reported that Wuhan has been under reporting by an order of 20x and calculated that based on the number of deaths per funeral home, they’re underreporting at least 50,000 deaths in the province.
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How Come we never saw this before????
by Newly Enlightened inoh my goodness!
how come we never thought of this before?
if the israelites had animals to sacrifice to jehovah in the wilderness, then how come their god jehovah had to give them manna so they wouldn't starved to death?.
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@Ultimate Axiom: If I understand, this is per person/family right?
105 bulls, 32 rams, 873 lambs and 24 goats per family
The average American currently eats on average 11 cows in their entire lifetime. That was a ton of beef to be raised for sacrifice if they had to sacrifice 100 cows and 1000 sheep per family per year.
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New Light!
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inyes this could very much be a reality in the following months, the washtowel will spin this corona crisis this way using isaiah 26 : 20 " go my people enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until this wrath has passed by".. as it is they seem so hyped up about the gt !.
i will be surprised if after this crisis is over they will literally use this verse to cover over why this was not the final day of the final days of the end of the end of the short end times!.
zing.
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It is interesting how you can spin every prophecy to be true because history is cyclical. Since we figured out that staying away from germs is a smart idea, we already had Spanish, Asian and now Chinese flu as well as a ton of smaller outbreaks of disease that could likewise be contained by quarantine.
Same goes for wars, large and small, we've had 3 World Wars (the Cold War really was a World War) and about to enter a new one. Also, before that, the World was at War, just the logistics didn't allow for armies to travel great distances, but you had the Francs and Brits and Germans/Ottomans and Easterners all at war with each other for pretty much the entirety of human history. Before that it was the Germans and the Brits against the Italians (Roman Empire) - always the same group(s) of people, which it is easy to identify which would belong together simply by looking at any map of geographic features.
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How Come we never saw this before????
by Newly Enlightened inoh my goodness!
how come we never thought of this before?
if the israelites had animals to sacrifice to jehovah in the wilderness, then how come their god jehovah had to give them manna so they wouldn't starved to death?.
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The biggest question is, how did a million people travel the desert for 40y without water. If you remember, Aaron had to strike his staff against the rocks to create water, once. Supposedly 1M people and their livestock drank and washed from a single magic stream, moved and ... struck the staff against the rock again? No, because when Moses did that, God got so angry, Moses was forever banned from entering the Promised Land.
The logistics of the story alone are absurd. By the time you have moved that much people even just a mile down the road, they would've all died of dehydration or starvation.
Also God said that the rock will yield water. In ancient times, it was indeed understood that rocks contained water (because they often had 'springs' originating from between rock structures). God did speak a falsehood when he said the rock would yield its water because as we know, rocks do not yield water, they do not contain either hydrogen or oxygen.
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Do You Support Nancy Pelosi and The Democrats Way of Working On The Coronavirus?
by minimus ini think the american people need to get help on the coronavirus and leave it at that!
forget about adding things from the liberal agenda!
the house and the senate need to work together now to do their jobs..
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@RubaDub: The new COVID bill is full of pork, I would've voted against it until they took it all back out and put it back a week ago.
If you hear Dems complaining about bailouts of large corporations, they took out the loans program and made 50% of the business funding and 100% of the large corporation funding (eg. Boeing) into grants. Grants, unlike loans, is money you don't ever need to pay back. Even if the government were making some bad loans in the end it wasn't going to be 50-100% of the funding provided.
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Next we'll probably experience famine
by wannabefree inthis morning my wife made the comment ... "we'll probably experience famine next.".
i don't know that she'd come up with this on her own.
has anyone else heard a jw talking about this?.
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A thought.
If the JW's keep saying that the government has to attack 'false' religion before it attacks the 'true' religion (them), how come that at every turn, the government is prosecuting them first? Doesn't that imply they are the false religion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses%27_handling_of_child_sex_abuse#United_States
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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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Both Russia and China are lying a lot about the numbers. They're a dictatorship after all, having panic is dangerous for their rulers. The rate of recovery in China is amazing and the fact there are NO new cases is a miracle, it's almost as if they're cooking the numbers. Korea is seeing a resurgence in cases though.
As far as the map, the aggregation happens differently in the US now than elsewhere. Most countries and initially even states in the US were aggregated. Now they're splitting them up more and more if their local government does, the US has data down to zip code. Given the red circles aren't linear in size, it makes it look like the US is a terrible place but if you zoom, there's less than a handful cases in each instance. My zip code has <5 cases.
The spread and death rate in the US is actually an outlier - more people have it but fewer than 1% are dying. In Italy death rates are now at 10%. There is a difference somewhere there in healthcare methods and quality. Even the difference between CA and NY and the rest of the country is telling how well socialist healthcare is doing vs privatized healthcare.
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Will Governor Cuomo be the Next President?
by RubaDub intrying to put politics aside (even though that won't really work), but ny governor andrew cuomo is blowing the other politicians out out the water (orange man [trump] and the lizard [biden]).. i don't know if cuomo has a usb port in the back of his head plugged into a hard drive but the guy speaks, analyzes and talks coherently.
the orange man always passes difficult questions to someone else.
the lizard can't comprehend what the question is but tries to answer something.. cuomo comes out with facts, analysis and direction on what needs to be done.
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I work for a hospital system, we have ~25% of our ICU beds open and just re-opened a decommissioned ICU right here in NYS.
Cuomo's government is refusing to send people to our system because it's a 'privately owned' and not state-run system and thus the worry is that we cannot extract extra money (either in grants or rebates) from Federal government when this runs over. We're consigned to just handling people with insurance or Medicare.