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.
Exactly smiddy, if we got news of every senior citizen that dies from the common flu strains and pneumonia or bronchitis infections it would put things in perspective.
Elderly and the already unhealthy are always at risk of developing bad lung infections from colds and flus, this isn’t any different and not particularly deadly either.
We will get something extremely deadly pop up sooner or later, can’t see it being this one though
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.
What you want to do is have them get past the biggest risk period, to when vaccines maybe developed or enough people have built up immunity that the spread is much slower and contraction less likely
Yes and hopefully a drug or vaccine isn’t far off.
I heard a University in Australia identified the protein that the virus uses to invade cells, spike protein or something I don’t remember details but they do believe it could be controlled via a drug.
More funding is needed for real science in Australia, science to fund and find cures for things like this, not funding departments who create female wage gap and climate change graphs through dodgy statistics.
We don’t even have a national centre for disease control in Australia, the federal government has left it for individual state control. That is so stupid beyond belief, this lack of preparation our so called government has could be the difference between maybe 10-50k deaths to something like 250 000 dead Australians.
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.
The death rate for the corona virus is around 2%, somewhere between 1-2%. It obviously depends on many factors, but say 2%.
Its first pass around the globe will take 18 months and infect 40-70% of the earth’s population, this is now inevitable according to some scientists..(epidemiologist?)
If 50% are infected and 2% die, it looks like you’ll almost certainly know of somebody who dies from it over the next 18months.
Could it be you?
If you are infected and over 80 years old, your chances of death are more like 14-15%
If you are over 70, it’s closer to 5%.
Anyone born after 1980 has about 0.2% of death, and children are not affected by the virus.
Any underlying health conditions will make things worse, but If you’re a fit and healthy 30 to 50 year old your chances of dying are extremely slim.
When the plague swept through London in the 1340’s it wiped out half the population.
This isn’t the plague and this panic buying of toilet paper is stupid and irrational, the hint is in the name “panic buying”.
The best protection is good clean living, unfortunately not well practiced these days. All these fat people filling shopping trolleys with detergent and toilet paper, the only thing they should panic about is their physical condition.
Eat lots of veggies and exercise often, lift weights and do proper vigorous workouts. This is a proven health stimulant and easily the best known to mankind.
If it is worst case and turns out to be the apocalypse, I’ll gladly give 200 rolls of toilet paper and 12 bottles of hand sanitizer for some electrical insulation tape or something useful
so greta thunberg thinks the world pollutes too much.
specifically, the parts of the world that pollute the least and have the cleanest industries.
she doesn't seem to care about india or china who are the biggest polluters by far.. "how dare they".
No way you are having full energy capacity from your home solar panels in WNY. I heat with electric because we have cheap energy (nuclear and hydropower) and we consume about 5000kWh/month ($200-300)
That seems high, the average household in Australia uses around 40-50kw daily, you are 3x that.
I have 30 panels generating about 50kw daily with nearly 30kw of battery storage. Panels and battery tech improving fast nowadays.
i have been feeding my very pimi brother tidbits and clippings of all the csa issues coming to light the last five years and all the org's business dealings of hundreds of closed halls congs dissolving etc.
and reminding him of all the failed prophecies etc etc.
although he would listen and acknowledge.
Old JWs are extremely invested, it’s very much the sunk cost fallacy.
Paradise earth stirs such emotion it’s hard not to invest, kinda like Tesla cars
when i was affiliated with the witnesses, there were barely 6,000 who profess to be of the anointed remnant.
i recently read somewhere that today there are over 20,000 who profess to be anointed.
that figure may be more when you consider those who meet and partake privately for fear of the stigma of claiming to be anointed.
@ dubstepped
I can’t remember the site name exactly, this is going back some years. Quick search though finds a few sites that are basically what the WTS is playing wack-a-mole with.
when i was affiliated with the witnesses, there were barely 6,000 who profess to be of the anointed remnant.
i recently read somewhere that today there are over 20,000 who profess to be anointed.
that figure may be more when you consider those who meet and partake privately for fear of the stigma of claiming to be anointed.
They have to mention this because some of the more deluded anointed have done exactly that, sort out other anointed ones like they’re special and try to stir some shit, they even had a website.
my wife's family rode motorcycles all their life.
her grandfather was an elder.
i was told by some dubbers that it was not christian to use a motorcycle.
watchtower has been named as world's most published and circulated magazine in us.
amazing.
source:.
I had an awake mag on my front lawn, not in my letterbox or at the door but actually on the lawn grass. I noticed the house across the road also had a JW rag in their front yard.
Do they just throw them out of car windows now and let the angels do the rest?
What really stood out is the decline magazine standards, it’s honestly difficult to even call it a magazine nowadays
on 14 november 2018, australian-based barristers david bennett ac, qc and james gibson presented to watchtower australia and the jehovah’s witnesses organisation their commissioned review and opinion on the findings and recommendations of the royal commission into the institutional responses to child sexual abuse as it related to jehovah’s witnesses.. .
the review entitled “review of the commission’s investigation into jehovah’s witnesses and its ensuing reports” was divided into four parts, as follows:.
part one considered the history and powers of royal commissions in general.. .
This is donated money being spent on the educated worldly, just because these lawyers are already extremely wealthy means nothing, their legal opinion comes at a cost which is usually eye watering. The WT by it’s own admission shouldn’t have this money to spare.
There is no moral high ground and barely a legal foot to stand on but the sick and sad old WTS is digging its heels.
I find it repugnant on many levels. The WT could join the redress scheme but would rather pay lawyers then compensate victims.
