The Mysterious Coronavirus Spreading Worldwide

[Loopy]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-05/mutant-coronavirus-has-emerged-more-contagious-than-original
 

Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

 

The new strain appeared in February in Europe, migrated quickly to the East Coast of the United States and has been the dominant strain across the world since mid-March, the scientists wrote. 

 

In addition to spreading faster, it may make people vulnerable to a second infection after a first bout with the disease, the report warned.

The 33-page report was posted Thursday on BioRxiv, a website that researchers use to share their work before it is peer reviewed, an effort to speed up collaborations with scientists working on COVID-19 vaccines or treatments. That research has been largely based on the genetic sequence of earlier strains and might not be effective against the new one.

 

[pnutts]

15 hours ago, hatcheckgirl said:

cytokine storms

Oh the pain of it all.  This is what causes so much pain for those of us with ME/CFS and/or Fibromyalgia. 🔥

[pnutts]

WHO is asking nations to look further back as some "pneumonia" cases in early December may be the virus.

One case they are looking at - man did Not travel to China. Thus may have been present outside of China a lot sooner than reported.

[Zephyr]

As of today , according to CO, over 800 of our brothers have died due to Covid-19

[Ahuvah]

Which means many many more contracted it. That is terrible.

[Brother_Bliss]

7 hours ago, cme said:

However, this plague is the sign of the conclusion of system of things. Markers if you will, on the journey to the GT.

Actually there is nothing biblically special about coronavirus or covid-19 in and of itself. It's just one of a myriad of pestilences that have plagued mankind as part of the sign since 1914.

[Zephyr]

and over 9000 brothers infected

[Hotteok]

2 hours ago, Dismal_Bliss said:

Actually there is nothing biblically special about coronavirus or covid-19 in and of itself. It's just one of a myriad of pestilences that have plagued mankind as part of the sign since 1914.

True but the impact it has created economywise, religionwise, social activity wise, theres something unique about this one.

[Brother_Bliss]

5 hours ago, Tryin'SoHardToBeSpiritual said:

True but the impact it has created economywise, religionwise, social activity wise, theres something unique about this one.

No, not really. Previous pandemics have had similar affects.

 

Even if it were unique, there is absolutely nothing in the Bible about coronavirus. But collectively, coronavirus, HIV, Ebola, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, etc, are all "pestilences" that Jesus foretold for the last days.

[cme]

6 minutes ago, Dismal_Bliss said:

No, not really. Previous pandemics have had similar affects.

 

Even if it were unique, there is absolutely nothing in the Bible about coronavirus. But collectively, coronavirus, HIV, Ebola, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, etc, are all "pestilences" that Jesus foretold for the last days.

Even if this is not unique in itself, watching the world, everything that we see collectively, pandemics, violence, the turmoil of mankind, politics not agreeing among themselves, in other words the impetus and the drive that all this has collectively makes this pandemic very unique among all of the ongoing situations.  Without this pandemic we were all seeing and acknowledging that the end is near.  This pandemic seals the belief that it is very near indeed.

[Shawnster]

12 hours ago, Tryin'SoHardToBeSpiritual said:

True but the impact it has created economywise, religionwise, social activity wise, theres something unique about this one.

Yes, this is very unique.  That in itself doesn't mean it's directly related to a certain Bible prophecy.  We can absolutely say this is related to the pestilences Jesus foretold.  Anything else is pure speculation fueled by emotion.  We are so tired and weary that we want this event to be of Biblical significance.   

[Mykyl]

This pandemic is blocking in the main the witnessing work worldwide. Thats pretty well different.

No amount of letters or telephone witnessing makes up for that. Which is still way more than some of us have by the way. 

Is it something more though? Who knows. We will find out someday.

Edited May 6, 2020 by Mykyl

[cme]

1 hour ago, Shawnster said:

Yes, this is very unique.  That in itself doesn't mean it's directly related to a certain Bible prophecy.  We can absolutely say this is related to the pestilences Jesus foretold.  Anything else is pure speculation fueled by emotion.  We are so tired and weary that we want this event to be of Biblical significance.   

Absolutely, I see your point.  We are all tired and worn out.  And we would all love to see this come to a head.  And, possibly we will.  Everything that has been ongoing for the past 10 years has been strange.  I thought that Bethel moving out of  Brooklyn was a real big thing.  And it was, for those of us that received friends from all over the country and the world.  A movement never ever haven't been seen.  Congregations got divided and then an "equalizing".   Then we get conventions with themes like, "Hope for what you do not see" and "Walk by faith" and so forth.  All this is pointing to the end times.  I would love to see Jehovah's name vindicated at last.  Speaking about getting rattled, we were!  Now this pandemic.  Yes, we are tired of this system of things.  The GB did say they were not the ones driving the chariot but, they were on for the ride.  So Jehovah's heavenly organization and earthly organization is on the move.  So, deducing what we are seeing and feeling we can all appreciate that we are at the end times.  Like Bro. Lett said, "the last of the last of the last day.

Edited May 6, 2020 by cme

[Ahuvah]

14 hours ago, Zephyr said:

and over 9000 brothers infected

That's just under 10% death rate!! Wondering if there's more infected than we realize? Because if that's the normal deathrate for a group that is under lockdown ... ummm ... what is it for the general populace esp those in states that are ignoring the lockdown?

1 hour ago, Shawnster said:

Yes, this is very unique.  That in itself doesn't mean it's directly related to a certain Bible prophecy.  We can absolutely say this is related to the pestilences Jesus foretold.  Anything else is pure speculation fueled by emotion.  We are so tired and weary that we want this event to be of Biblical significance.   

Yes. Sars.Cov2 and it's disease covid19 is NOT a specific fulfillment of any prophecy, it is in general terms. But what we DO know is as the last of the last days go on, things are going to get worse not better, with maybe the exception of the Peace and Security event that may give the impression things are better. 

[Ahuvah]

51 minutes ago, Mykyl said:

This pandemic is blocking in the main the witnessing work worldwide. Thats pretty well different.

No amount of letters or telephone witnessing makes up for that. Which is still way more than some of us have by the way. 

Is it something more though? Who knows. We will find out someday.

remember though - we aren't going to finish the circuit - when the GT breaks out - so we would at some point have to leave off preaching, with or without the virus ... is this it? As the FDS have said, often we won't know until after the event. But at some point even if we continue preaching ... it would have or will have reached a point that Jehovah is satisfied with.

Edited May 6, 2020 by Stormswift

[AH173]

1 hour ago, Mykyl said:

This pandemic is blocking in the main the witnessing work worldwide. Thats pretty well different.

No amount of letters or telephone witnessing makes up for that. Which is still way more than some of us have by the way. 

Is it something more though? Who knows. We will find out someday.

Perhaps the usual way we witness is temporarily stopped.

 

If you have had a recent co visit since the pandemic, you or your elders should be all about fulfilling Jesus' words to the best of our ability.

 

Even if you live in a home or apartment where there are passersby, they are our territory (while respecting social distancing).

 

Jesus expects all of his worldwide witnesses to imitate the 2 good slaves who were given talents- and used their creative abilities to increase the masters interests- not the one who hid their entrusted talent in the ground.

 

We must be creative and keep preaching is what I got from the last week's co visit.

[Ahuvah]

Good comment Brother Ashley ... we have to trust that if Jehovah is still drawing people he will do so via the current processes we have in place.

[AH173]

2 minutes ago, Stormswift said:

we have to trust that if Jehovah is still drawing people he will do so via the current processes we have in place.

All I know from the Bible is that we should be creative ministers of the Kingdom until Jehovah says the work is done. 

 

It is not over yet.

 

If its not over then Jehovah sees some good in some people to extend the Kingdom message to those who are looking for it.

[Mykyl]

1 hour ago, AH173 said:

Perhaps the usual way we witness is temporarily stopped.

 

If you have had a recent co visit since the pandemic, you or your elders should be all about fulfilling Jesus' words to the best of our ability.

 

Even if you live in a home or apartment where there are passersby, they are our territory (while respecting social distancing).

 

Jesus expects all of his worldwide witnesses to imitate the 2 good slaves who were given talents- and used their creative abilities to increase the masters interests- not the one who hid their entrusted talent in the ground.

 

We must be creative and keep preaching is what I got from the last week's co visit.

We don't get passers by here.

We just had our Co visit. Basically told to focus in whats possible not whats impossible. We can count even just 15 minutes. 

My point though was about a huge change for the vast majority of us. Not about possibilities or the like.

Just challenging other points that's its no different to other diseases. 😉 It absolutely is different from that point at least.

Last month in lockdown I got more hours than normal. Not so likely this month though.

Edited May 6, 2020 by Mykyl

[Medit8]

Emotional from exhaustion? Yes!! Even before this we were all struggling with one trial after another. So when the Governing Body discern that we're in the final part of the final part of the last days, when I hear from those in the Branch that the consensus is that they can 'smell Armageddon' (their term), when we've received our training via the recent conventions, when the light is so bright we can 'see' this world's end imminent, I'm basing my 'feelings on evidence.

 

COVID-19 is just one aspect of the sign of the conclusion of the system of things. And Jesus said things would go from bad to worse. This pandemic has touched everyone. The fallout from it will be huge. The economy has tanked, brothers and sisters are out of work, and yet the commercial system will still be going along as they say too bad too bad you great city as they see the smoke rising from Babylon the Great' s destruction. 

 

It's a composite sign, and combined with every other aspect of the sign, shows how near the GT we are. The waters have dried up for Babylon, churches are closed, and it'll be a long time until they're allowed to be open at full capacity, if ever. 

 

And yet, when we speak to people on the telephone in our area, the attitude is "she'll be right mate", exactly the same as before this pandemic, in general they take no note. 

 

Are we in position, in our 'inner rooms", as the Jews were before Babylon was destroyed? Only time will tell. Our hope keeps us going. We're not going to fall out of the truth if this system goes on a bit longer than we expect, because Jehovah knows exactly the right time to end this mess. We know Satan's system is an utter failure and that Jehovah won't let it go on a millisecond longer than it takes for the challenge on his universal sovereignty to be proven beyond a doubt. Can it just be now though 😂😂

Edited May 7, 2020 by Medit8

[Zephyr]

interesting video talking about Fauci history and gag orders...and info on flu vaccines. Must see
 

https://youtu.be/5wHzrYtV5lw

[luisenriquereyes]

7 hours ago, Zephyr said:

interesting video talking about Fauci history and gag orders...and info on flu vaccines. Must see
 

https://youtu.be/5wHzrYtV5lw

Video was removed.  What were some of the highlights?

[Shawnster]

16 hours ago, Zephyr said:

interesting video talking about Fauci history and gag orders...and info on flu vaccines. Must see
 

https://youtu.be/5wHzrYtV5lw

 

8 hours ago, luisenriquereyes said:

Video was removed.  What were some of the highlights?

YouTube removes ‘Plandemic’ video with coronavirus claims by Dr. Judy Mikovits

 

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/05/youtube-removes-plandemic-video-with-coronavirus-claims-by-dr-judy-mikovits.html

Quote

 

“The Plandemic,” a 25-minute clip from an upcoming documentary, was taken off of YouTube this week for violating the Google-owned video site’s community guidelines. The video centered on Dr. Judy Mikovits, a former chronic fatigue researcher who claims the federal government is behind a “plague of corruption” to inflate profits from a potential vaccine even as COVID-19 threatens lives.

 

“Misinformation that comes up quickly as part of a fast-moving news cycle, where unfounded claims and uncertainty about facts are common. (For example, a false report that COVID-19 is a bio-weapon.) Our fact check information panels provide fresh context in these situations by highlighting relevant, third-party fact-checked articles above search results for relevant queries, so that our viewers can make their own informed decision about claims made in the news,” YouTube said.

 

Apparently the video was full of lies and false information. If YouTube pulled it, then it's gotta be bad considering what they allow on their site. 

 

[CHecker]

I was contacted by a supervisor on 1 of my jobs, he asked me what my protocols for cleaning with the covid19 virus in mind.  I forwarded the E mail to my daughter because she  Subcontracts on that job, she told me that a seafood processing building across the street had two people diagnosed with the virus on Tuesday and then just yesterday, Wednesday, they had 11 more test positive! Apparently there was a lot of shaming going on, if you didn't show up for work you are called all kinds of names and were harassed.

Edited May 7, 2020 by bagwell1987

[Todd komaniak]

Not familiar with the video of that doctor Judy but shawnster you have to know that Google and YouTube are a agenda-driven company they throttle anybody if they don't fit into their agenda