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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

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  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.

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  Check with your GP (in other words, don't blame me if this is wrong or wouldn't be suitable for you) but I have just been told about an elderly Chinese lady who was diagnosed with the virus. She was admitted to hospital and the family asked that she be given Vitamin C. The clinicians resisted but later agreed on the basis that Vitamin C was so cheap. She was given it intravenously and recovered.

  From personal experience a few years ago I had a bad cough (I put it down to pioneering). Anyway a kind Christian lady (not a JW) took pity on me and told me about the benefits of high dose Vitamin C. She told me to go out and get Vitamin C with Riboflavinoids and take double the daily dose - she said the Riboflavinoids were important. She also told me that one clove of garlic would stop my cough for an hour. It did. She also recommended I make a tea of fresh grated ginger, with 2 tsp of cinnamon - let it brew and strain it, add honey and sip. It sooths the cough. All that she told me worked.
  

  None of the stuff the GP tried worked. But what she told me helped. In the end the real cure was to stop pioneering because I think the cough was stress induced from not getting proper rest.
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  Hi Newsheep

  In the UK, once people pass a certain age, their health care costs go up. People imagine that somehow their best interests are being cared for, until reality hits them as they slow up. Then they see just how much they are cared for. Their strength is gone, their voice not heard. Subtle obstacles have to be overcome that the elderly never imagined they would face. Such as ever changing carers who only have 15 mins to give you and turn up late (because they can't help it they are under so much pressure). But, do hope you don't mind getting up at 10am and going to bed a 2pm. Or sitting in a filthy wet diaper feeling thirsty, let alone depressed for a few hours, as your toothache flares to agony but no one hears you scream. Or they do but no one is available to respond.
  

  One reason why its a good idea to help those who are struggling. Over many years you gradually see what happens to them and what is awaiting you.

  The British healthcare runs primarily on the goodwill of those doing the caring. Many of whom are not given the support and in some cases are even hamstrung from providing the level of care they want to provide. Their goodwill owes far more than is ever acknowledged to Chrisitan values.
  

  People need love and compassion. Not hands-off corporate neglect with endless excuses and the learning of lessons which were really learnt years ago but conveniently forgotten.
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  Rumor of Religion wanting to contact Inactives

  by LongHairGal in

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  i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.

  some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.

  the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).

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  Given the min has been cancelled they are all inactive in my area. But the restart of activity might be just around the corner.
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  In the UK, the issue appears to be - which parts of the health service make money and could make money if privatised. Potentially money-making ones get the money thrown at them but those that don't make any money have their budgets slowly cut back in the hope that no one notices. Such as care for the elderly.

  When a population no longer values its widows and orphans, things deteriorate because no one is that fussed about the sad plight of the most helpless.
  
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  Go bags

  by punkofnice in

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  what are they going to do with their 'go bags(tm)' now?.

  convert them to 'stay bags'?.

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  Fall Guy - they'll have to self-isolate in the bunker. Guess there'll need to be a lot of room as they stand a few meters apart from one another.

  I passed the spot where I usually see a trolley. No one out. If they were out, I think a few people might speak to them given the panic. But they are nowhere to be seen. I expect they are all very happy because the ministry in my area has been cancelled. And it's nice for me too because I don't get trolley-shunned. Just supermarket-shunned. Or coffee-bar-shunned.
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  Simon I agree with you. I have witnessed such mismanagement.
  
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  JW's and Retirement Planning

  by JaNayNee in

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  my mother is a jw.

  i studied for several years and ultimately could not digest what was being served.

  for the last 20 years my mother has done nothing to prepare for retirement.

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  An elderly sister told me of the time a life assurance man called on her. She said to him, "but I am not going to die." He nearly fell over backwards when she said that.

  She died some years ago.

  She had no retirement plan but had been helpful throughout her life to many. Somehow she managed. But I watched out of her window as pioneer after pioneer walked passed her window because she was not someone they were looking to date. She was old, was no good for gossip or having a laugh. Worse still, she was baptised so you couldn't count your time with her.

  An elder, not known for being thoughtful, did one kind act. He told his children they could count their time with her. Suddenly she had more visitors.

  If it was WT policy to care for elderly ones, not one of them would be without care - the younger ones would rally round but they are discouraged from doing so. After all, someone's got to spend hours next to a literature trolley being ignored by the public, haven't they? Otherwise all the homeless people would wonder where their day-time companions had gone.
  
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  pictures for or of pimos

  by waton in

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  a picture so embarrassing, even wtbts inc does not want to describe it?

  this week's study, no 52, march 1 2020 wt dec 1919. picture description (on page 27) for pages 23 and 26 but not for the one on page 24, too embarrassing?

  picture it, page 24. the wt lady, with a head volume ~8 times that of the gentlemen sitting behind her, eager to have her voice boom in the kingdom hall, raising arms with 3 other "sisters", whereas all 4 males are abstaining.

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  You can see a man holding a baby - I expect the message is supposed to be, "brothers, if your wife is always having to look after the children, she wont get anything from the meetings and wont achieve the full level of indoctrination. Therefore, if you look after the baby, she wont be able to escape into the toilets or the mother and babies room quite so often. Instead she'll set an example to little Selathiel who is watching the microphone being passed to 18 month old Fifi as she gives her first answer. Little Selathiel is now thinking how much he would like to give his first answer.
  
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  The Bunker Brothers

  by Anna Marina in

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  they've been holed up in the bunker for a number of days and things are getting stressful for the bunker brothers.

  but they keep their spirits up singing that famous kingdom melody by frank sinatra.. the bunker brothers.

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  They've been holed up in the bunker for a number of days and things are getting stressful for the Bunker Brothers. But they keep their spirits up singing that famous Kingdom Melody by Frank Sinatra.

  The Bunker Brothers
  
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  Illustration in todays WT

  by road to nowhere in

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  2. beliefs

  quick glance.

  the guy working the cart has a skinny suit.

  i assume they stage things so where did the sports car come from?

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  They got the sports car with the funds left to them by a naive widow?