Yep, heard that as well. They've been playing hardball with all of our medical supplies for a while now. Our medical system had to adjust a few weeks ago, hence why most systems are rationing even though they have months worth of supply, it's not going to last long enough. It's going to get rough, I'm expecting at some point, someone is going to point a gun at someone to get medical supplies and it's not going to be nice.
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Some Inside Stuff RE: Imports from China - WOW
by RubaDub inas some of you know, i still remain, for the time being, a bit under the radar for family reasons so i'm being a bit general in nature.. ms. rub a dub is intimately involved with purchases, sales and compliance issues and when dealing with commercial and at times government contracts under homeland security.
as such, she is "in the loop" so to speak and receives communications daily on what is changing where.. about 30 minutes ago, she came out of her little office and said, wow, i just got my daily report and noticed that china has just raised the price on exports of medical items by 25%, even on contracts that are under production.
she said immediately, the us then eliminated all tariffs on medical-related items to at least lower the prices somewhat.. i didn't get the details since she got another call and is still on it but i have to say, the chinese play hardball.
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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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@Nathan Natas: Whatever you do, don’t inhale hydrogen peroxide. That stuff is lethal and can cause chemical burns and destroy tissue inside your lungs and various tracts in your body.
It’s also not medically recommended to inhale steam, slightly different reason, both your water and air hosts all sorts of microbes, fungi and even various worm eggs. If you force them in and they lodge in your lung tissue, they could cause irritation or develop into infestations (yes, worms or mold in your lungs is bad). There are a ton of other issues that can be caused by frequent steaming.
Only use nebulizers as recommended by medical professionals - with sterile vials of medicine for asthma.
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IT experts
by Youngaposthate ingood day former jdubs, i'm a new member, particularly looking for it experts whome can verify if the jw apps track its members and record audio, particularly the khonf app.
if you download app on google play store and click the headphones, a pop up requiring user to click pop up to enable audio recording is displayed.
i'm minorly aware of the evolution of tech and tracking scandals.
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Put it in an emulator, record what it is trying to do, is it trying to reach a site or transfer large amounts of data? Even if you can’t read it right away (there are tricks for that), you would notice video/audio being fed back to a third party system.
Generally, recording audio/video is of little interest to a company, there is no way to keep track of it all or index it for anything useful. What is useful is figuring out your patterns of location, purchase etc. Not to the JW but to the ad companies.
If you’ve ever been involved with or done surveillance on people, you’d find out that going through hours of audio/video is annoyingly boring. Active surveillance is probably the most boring job ever, people aren’t all that interesting, they don’t talk about anything interesting. Even elder meetings and judicial meetings are utterly boring, a synopsis can be made in 3 sentences or paragraphs, most meetings anywhere in the world are just housekeeping and going around following corporate rules.
DMCA does not apply to reverse engineering and commentary, feel free to do it and post the code on GitHub, as long as you don’t include the binary, it should be fine.
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Question For People Being Put Onto A Ventilator - How Is It Powered?
by Simon inimagine you or a loved one have to go onto a ventilator and are given the choice of how it should be powered.
what are people picking?.
coal or oil powered energy.
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@LongHairGal: what did you learn from Fukushima about nuclear? How many people died due to radiation (0)? How many people died due to the panicked response from politicians in the area in the misguided attempt to evacuate an area just hit by a tsunami (2000)?
What is the alternative really? If you think lithium batteries mined by children in China and neodymium magnets mined by children in Congo and semiconductors poisoning Chinese and Korean cities with lead and arsenic are a solution, well, then, yeah, it’s cleaner - to you.
Nuclear is a dense source of power. Throughout history we’ve always wanted more dense sources of power, initially wind and sun, then leaves and wood, then coal, then oil, refined oils, compressed gas and now you want to go back to wind and sun. How many people can you power with wind and sun? Hint: the US and China are winding down expansion of wind as companies notice that for ever GW capacity you increase in wind, you get 0.5GW out - on average and it requires massive investments in distribution which is pure loss. That’s the same yield as an on-demand diesel plant.
Calculate how much solar and wind you need to power the US - clear cut the forests across the entire state of California and fill it from end-to-end with towers and panels and you’d have enough to power a day (until it is night time).
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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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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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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.