this 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.
This is awful news. What on Earth do we do now?
We could go to a dark room, curl up in a little ball, and whimper like a child with a soiled diaper waiting for someone to do something for us, which is what it seems that many people do; or as I choose to do...live my life as normally as possible and enjoy each day, while taking reasonable precautions for my health and those around me.
great question to ask your pimi's.
if we truly are in final minutes of the last days before the great tribulation.
with most everyone home, why is the org.
Well they are writing generic doom and gloom letters to addresses culled from a town directory, and throwing in a card about the website, and a piece of litterature about how the deaths of billions at Armageddon will solve all the worlds problems. At least that cheap paper can be used for wiping ones butt after morning duty, and thrown away.
2020-04-03--support during coronavirus pandemic.
https://docdro.id/cvkzlpi.
2020-04-04--announcement.
Support During Coronavirus Pandemic?
I just threw up! What a pants load. The writers who thought that letter up should all be getting treatment for broken arms as they worked so hard to pat themselves on their own backs! And probably treated for chapped lips from blowing their own horns.
i hope it will go away in the next few months!
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So the designated health officials from each country are blowing hot air, that this virus is neither contagious or deadly ?
THAT is NOT what I said...and you damned well know it! There is a level of fear and panic being instilled that is way out of proportion to the real seriousness of the virus. And there IS an agenda behind THAT panic that is prompted by an agenda other than my health.
Of course having a battle of wits with you will be like having a gun fight with an un-armed person!
gorby's brother in law came by the porch and told "the conventions are cancelled".
we knew already but responded surprised.
"it will be recorded and showed at stream.
Due to Covid-19 all summer RC's are now cancelled. However, Jehovah has made the loving provision for all to now use the "financial resources" (money) that would have been used on Convention travel, food, and accommodations to be loving donated to the WTB&TS. Further details as to hw to get us your money coming sooooooon!
Not read in a letter, but nearly word for word what an eldurr said in the zzzzzoooooooooooooommm meeting this morning.
i hope it will go away in the next few months!
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When will it go away? Just as soon as the "powers" behind the media driven fear and panic have attained the goal they are pursuing. And that is not our health. IMO
you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.
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https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.
"Religious leaders promise you blessings from God, all you have to do is support them. Promise, hope, disappointment."
Reminds me of what their own Bible says that Jesus said, "(Matthew 12:36, 37) . . . I tell you that men will render an account on Judgment Day for every unprofitable saying that they speak; 37... and by your words you will be condemned.”
now that the medical advice seem to be coming round to actually giving honest advice, it's good to have a mask.
weeks wasted and god knows how many infected that didn't need to be, but now there's no excuse for not wearing one ... other than you may not have any.. you can make them of course, if you have a sewing machine.
but even if you don't, you can make one using the blue shop-towel, a couple of elastic bands and a stapler.
I know a few people who I would like to see wear a plastic bag over their head for a mask, tied tightly around their neck. Does that make me a bad person?
you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.
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https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.
Exactly as the two comments above I plainly saw that it could just as easily apply to WT. Make BIG promises...then never deliver. Oh but wait, not having been able to watch more than one or two minutes, did they manage to force in a plea for more money?
the washington post has an article titled thousands of zoom video calls left exposed on open web.
i wonder if the witnesses know this.
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If they know, they do not care.
I forwarded an article about ZOOM privacy and hijacking issues to someone in my area and they replied that, "The governing body has this under control. They would never do anything that would compromise the flock. Jehovah is directing them, and can protect us from any issues with privacy or computer malware or virus' as long as we listen and obey the 'slave' ".
