The Mysterious Coronavirus Spreading Worldwide

[Sofia]

1 hour ago, SUNRAY said:

I am so sorry to hear this! I am praying for all our brothers and sisters..We all need to be so careful!

Yes

i already had it months ago

[Sofia]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-mutations-herd-immunity/2021/01/30/0741722e-627c-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html?fbclid=IwAR15qy-rRjwFSqe1jOJoYQvXHLeoZyRkJMSN7C_IkV-S8pI6gdrqQxc_NgM#click=https://t.co/KfRMoUw2Ay
 

well written article

[Shawnster]

2 hours ago, Lee49 said:

 

Can the arrival of new coronavirus variants scare Americans into better pandemic behavior?

Sadly, no. 

[My little flower]

BRAZIL IS UNDER SIEGE 

Brazil’s health care system is collapsing under a new strain of Covid-19

As Covid-19 cases and deaths pile up in Brazil, scientists have discovered a new strain of the coronavirus there - one that could potentially be more contagious and lethal. 

Hospitals are out of oxygen and ventilators, and rows and rows of graves are being dug every day. 

News Source: CNN

[Sofia]

Portugal has now The original sars virus

and  the three new variants 

b.1.1.1.7 from UK

b.1.3.5.1 from ZA

p.1 from Manaus Brasil

 Portugal is the worse country in the World with more cases per inhabitant 

🤦‍♀️🥺🥺🥺🥺

[hatcheckgirl]

7 hours ago, Sofia said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-mutations-herd-immunity/2021/01/30/0741722e-627c-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html?fbclid=IwAR15qy-rRjwFSqe1jOJoYQvXHLeoZyRkJMSN7C_IkV-S8pI6gdrqQxc_NgM#click=https://t.co/KfRMoUw2Ay
 

well written article

Yes, thanks for posting Sofia.  The pandemic will take longer to crush due to this (from the article):

 

the new variant circulating widely in South Africa showed signs of eluding natural immunity among volunteers who had previously survived an infection with the more common coronavirus strain. The Novavax vaccine was strikingly less effective against that variant, called B.1.351, than against other strains.

“That is something I had not seen before,” Collins said of the reinfection claim. “It is very tentative, and the numbers are not huge, but I would be alarmed if natural infection . . . is not sufficient to provide immunity.”

 

It will require a much higher threshold of immunised people for herd immunity if the new variants take hold.

“vaccines appear to work well against the B.1.1.7 variant that has spread explosively in southern England and led to drastic lockdowns.

But the good results come with asterisks. The J&J vaccine did not appear to prevent disease quite as well in South Africa and Latin America — places where problematic variants are spreading. And the Novavax data showed a dramatic drop in effectiveness against the B.1.351 variant circulating in South Africa...

 

The worst case is that if people “continue to be irresponsible,” more transmissible variants will rip across the country and potentially escape vaccines, treatments and naturally acquired immunity.

And then, he said, “we’d have to redesign a completely new vaccine all over again.”

[Sofia]

4 minutes ago, hatcheckgirl said:

Yes, thanks for posting Sofia.  The pandemic will take longer to crush due to this (from the article):

 

the new variant circulating widely in South Africa showed signs of eluding natural immunity among volunteers who had previously survived an infection with the more common coronavirus strain. The Novavax vaccine was strikingly less effective against that variant, called B.1.351, than against other strains.

“That is something I had not seen before,” Collins said of the reinfection claim. “It is very tentative, and the numbers are not huge, but I would be alarmed if natural infection . . . is not sufficient to provide immunity.”

 

It will require a much higher threshold of immunised people for herd immunity if the new variants take hold.

“vaccines appear to work well against the B.1.1.7 variant that has spread explosively in southern England and led to drastic lockdowns.

But the good results come with asterisks. The J&J vaccine did not appear to prevent disease quite as well in South Africa and Latin America — places where problematic variants are spreading. And the Novavax data showed a dramatic drop in effectiveness against the B.1.351 variant circulating in South Africa...

 

The worst case is that if people “continue to be irresponsible,” more transmissible variants will rip across the country and potentially escape vaccines, treatments and naturally acquired immunity.

And then, he said, “we’d have to redesign a completely new vaccine all over again.”

For us JW this may mean we will have to stay indoors for a long time, perhaps longer than expected.

GB update #1 is so encouraging to make us feel so special in our preaching adjustments

[hatcheckgirl]

13 minutes ago, hatcheckgirl said:

if people “continue to be irresponsible,”

I think we can see this happening before our eyes, so it will inevitably extend the pandemic. The other point is countries not sharing the vaccines. This too will extend the pandemic.

 

Sigh... It’s going to take a while.  “Your strength will be in keeping calm and showing trust” Is 30:15

[hatcheckgirl]

Ok, we’ve only just started a 5 day lockdown in Western Australia. And we had a guy refuse to wear a mask after being asked to and offered one by police. 
 

His defiance cost him dearly. He’s now in jail for 18 days until his court appearance, and in isolation. Police called him a knucklehead. 
 

No mucking around here! 👍

https://7news.com.au/news/wa/wa-covid-lockdown-man-41-arrested-and-denied-bail-after-refusing-to-wear-face-mask-c-2072817

[LoneWanderer]

Good to see the Aussies are enforcing the mandates. If they actually started doing the same on US West Coast, half of the population would be in jail 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Friends just call me Ross]

1 hour ago, LoneWanderer said:

Good to see the Aussies are enforcing the mandates. If they actually started doing the same on US West Coast, half of the population would be in jail 🤷🏼‍♂️

American knuckleheads are not just found on this country's West Coast.

 

American knuckleheads are indigenous to all 50 states.

 

 

[pnutts]

We got knuckleheads in Canada too. A guy out west coast had an illegal bar in his penthouse.

Patrons racked up $17 grand in fines and he was arrested.

We still have that idiot pastor in Aylmer holding in person service.

Orthodox Jews in Montreal continue to disobey masking and capacity rules.

Knuckleheads all of them.

[AH173]

Seems Christendom in USA profited greatly during pandemic! 

https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-small-business-charlotte-health-coronavirus-pandemic-39a404f55c82fea84902cd16f04e37b2

 

[BLEmom]

1 hour ago, AH173 said:

Seems Christendom in USA profited greatly during pandemic! 

https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-small-business-charlotte-health-coronavirus-pandemic-39a404f55c82fea84902cd16f04e37b2

 

Not surprised. All three elements about to go down always profit off of human misery.  

[Shawnster]

13 minutes ago, BLEmom said:

Not surprised. All three elements about to go down always profit off of human misery.  

What surprises me is that people haven't turned on religion yet.  I mean, stories like this and the child molestation and the way they've treated unwed mothers has been in the news for decades.  Truly shows that it'll be Jehovah putting it into their hearts. 

[Bob]

1 hour ago, Shawnster said:

What surprises me is that people haven't turned on religion yet.  I mean, stories like this and the child molestation and the way they've treated unwed mothers has been in the news for decades.  Truly shows that it'll be Jehovah putting it into their hearts. 

Well, I’m not sure that’s what would do it. Religion’s biggest enemy is apathy.. which is why many, many churches are deliberately catering to people by lowering standards and putting on rock concert-like services to put butts in the seats. 
 

However, it does look pretty bad when they’re taking taxpayer money while sitting on billions during a pandemic when millions are in real need to the money. 

Edited February 4, 2021 by Bob

[hatcheckgirl]

That happened in Australia too, where priests qualified for a government handout called Jobkeeper (to encourage employers to keep their employees on during the pandemic).  

 

Then the church was asking priests to donate nearly half of their payments back to the Church to improve its financial position. 😳

 

But others, such as University lecturers and local government employees got nothing. 
https://www.lawyersalliance.com.au/news/jobkeeper-payments-to-priests-improper-and-inappropriate

[sunshine]

 

 

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization's chief scientist, told the Financial Times' Global Boardroom webinar on Wednesday: "I would say in a four to five-year timeframe, we could be looking at controlling this."

 

Read full article 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/05/14/coronavirus-who-warns-it-could-take-up-to-5-years-to-control-pandemic.html

This article is about a year old but its encouraging because we have already done a year so there are only about 3 or four years left until we may start to getting back to normal.

 

It will be nice to meet together in the flesh or have an assembly again in 2024 or 2025...

Edited February 5, 2021 by sunshine

[pnutts]

Yup. We had announcement that won't be RC this year Nor 2022, maybe 2023 at earliest.

[sunshine]

3 minutes ago, pnutts said:

Yup. We had announcement that won't be RC this year Nor 2022, maybe 2023 at earliest.

 

 

I know.  Of course the masks and the social distancing will continue (it will be weird to be in the kingdom Hall with everyone in masks) but if will be better than nothing.  And by 2025 we will be used to it.

 

 

 

[trottigy]

15 hours ago, pnutts said:

Yup. We had announcement that won't be RC this year Nor 2022, maybe 2023 at earliest.

Did they say no "Regional" convention OR no "Special" - like internatinal Conventions for 2022?

[Ms. Piffle]

The letter read to us said no special conventions

[hatcheckgirl]

Perth’s snap 5 day lockdown has ended with no more new cases, but we are still required to wear masks if we leave the house at all times until mid February. 
 

Commissioner Dawson said officers had also charged burglars in Perth for not covering their face.
 

He said the accused were both stealing and breaching COVID-19 laws.

"I've never done that before in my career — told burglars you've got to wear a mask, but they do," he said.

"It sounds really wacko, but they were actually breaching two laws."
 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-08/man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-hotel-quarantine-guards/13131578

[BLEmom]

And over here we have all kinds of reports about possible superspreader events related to the superbowl! 🙄

[Shawnster]

COVID-19 in Ohio: State reports 1,926 new cases in last 24 hours, lowest number reported since Nov. 4

 

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https://www.whio.com/news/local/coronavirus-over-300-new-hospitalizations-7271-cases-reported-thursday/CHROPCTSI7D2JVPMULWVY3CLEQ/

 

 

MIAMI VALLEY — Ohio’s steady decline in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continued Monday with the state reporting less than 2,000 new cases in 24 hours for the first time since mid-October.

 

The last day Ohio reported a sub-2,000 new case day was data for Oct. 18, with 1,837 cases report for that day.

 

Let's see what happens in the next 2 weeks as Super Bowl party numbers start showing up.