CORONA Main Coronavirus thread

ChicagoMan74

ULTRA MAGA
I have a new theory. (thanks to the posts about this "church" that brought them to my attention)

THIS VIRUS WAS A BIO WEAPON SPREAD BY THE SHINCHEONJI CHURCH OF SK.

Remember all those videos we saw of people in elevators in China spitting on the buttons, etc. These church members somehow got this virus, maybe one of them worked at the lab and snuck it out, brought it to the wet market and then spread it around the globe. That's why some of the new countries are baffled as to how it got into their countries. A lot of them can trace it to the SK cultists who were tourists. They are deliberately trying to issue in their messiah and bring about the end of the world.

read this twitter feed for more, I formatted it so it's easier to read:

View: https://twitter.com/Spainkiller/status/1231871985862545408

Sam @Spainkiller
4:14 AM · Feb 24, 2020

The Coronavirus Chronicles keep getting weirder and weirder.

You've probably heard about the sudden outbreak of the virus in South Korea. Well, did you also know that this is, in large part, to thank to an actual death cult? It's called #Shincheonji, and it's super scary.

The 31st Coronavirus case in South Korea was a member of the Shincheonji cult. She's considered a superspreader, and it's unclear how she has contracted the virus, as she hasn't traveled to Wuhan, China or even anywhere abroad. Scary.

Members of the Shincheonji cult are ordered not to fear diseases, not to wear face masks, not to miss meetings, and to pray together in close-knit circles. Makes you wonder why, eh?

The cult is almost 36 years old and is lead a by an 88-year old man named Lee Man-hee, who believes he is both Satan and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Much more dangerously, however, is the fact that his teachings are based on his unique interpretation of biblical texts.

I.e. Shincheonji believes that Lee Man-hee is the only one that can accurately interpret the Bible. That has lead to incredibly exclusionary teachings, similar to the '144.000 saints' teaching of the Jehova's Witnesses.

Most dangerously, Lee Man-hee is very eschatology-focused, in such a way that people within Schincheonji have claimed that they are not simply beholding the End Times, but are actively *bringing it about*.

This is also why some believe that they've purposefully spread the virus.

Schincheonji, like other cults, have very deceitful and aggressive ways of recruiting new members. E.g. they pose as a non-denominational christian church and gain your trust after months of 'bible study' before exposing their true teachings and loyalty to Lee Man-hee.

These tactics have resulted in the recruitment of atheists, agnostics and christians, which is why the cult has shown explosive growth in the last decade.

They've grown so massively, in fact, that they've set up lots of cell branches in many countries over the last few years.

This especially is scary considering how much they love to 'stay in touch' with all of their cell branches now that we know how fond they are of pathogens.

We haven't nearly reached peak scaremongering yet, however.

1) The cult has spread similar diseases twice before.
2) Infected members of the cult have been using travel extensively in the past few weeks, including to Israel.
3) They had a branch in Wuhan.
4) They scrubbed that branch off the internet immediately after the Wuhan outbreak.
5) Around half of all Korean Coronavirus cases are tied to the cult.
6) Lee Man-hee claims that his Messianic powers won't be fully manifested until after the apocalypse. Which "is close".
7) Shincheonji has gotten such an obvious bad reputation in South Korea that members have started lying about their affiliation in order to secretly continue their practices + recruitment.
8) As with any cult, it's almost impossible to leave. Apostates are threatened and abused.
9) Oh, yeah, Lee Man-hee also claims he's immortal, by the way. The guy's ****ing insane.

Make no mistake, people: Shincheonji has nothing to do with christianity (they're just using the name of Jesus Christ to further Lee's beliefs) and is the worst kind of cult.

Think I'm making shit up? One of the most popular apps in S. Korea right now is one that alerts you if you're close to one of Shincheonji's 'churches' or other affiliated establishments. Of which there are over 730 across S. Korea alone, btw.
Thanks for the info on this cult. That's just straight up messed up. What deception.
 

raven

TB Fanatic
I have a new theory. (thanks to the posts about this "church" that brought them to my attention)

THIS VIRUS WAS A BIO WEAPON SPREAD BY THE SHINCHEONJI CHURCH OF SK.

Remember all those videos we saw of people in elevators in China spitting on the buttons, etc. These church members somehow got this virus, maybe one of them worked at the lab and snuck it out, brought it to the wet market and then spread it around the globe. That's why some of the new countries are baffled as to how it got into their countries. A lot of them can trace it to the SK cultists who were tourists. They are deliberately trying to issue in their messiah and bring about the end of the world.

read this twitter feed for more, I formatted it so it's easier to read:

View: https://twitter.com/Spainkiller/status/1231871985862545408

Sam @Spainkiller
4:14 AM · Feb 24, 2020

The Coronavirus Chronicles keep getting weirder and weirder.

You've probably heard about the sudden outbreak of the virus in South Korea. Well, did you also know that this is, in large part, to thank to an actual death cult? It's called #Shincheonji, and it's super scary.

The 31st Coronavirus case in South Korea was a member of the Shincheonji cult. She's considered a superspreader, and it's unclear how she has contracted the virus, as she hasn't traveled to Wuhan, China or even anywhere abroad. Scary.

Members of the Shincheonji cult are ordered not to fear diseases, not to wear face masks, not to miss meetings, and to pray together in close-knit circles. Makes you wonder why, eh?

The cult is almost 36 years old and is lead a by an 88-year old man named Lee Man-hee, who believes he is both Satan and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Much more dangerously, however, is the fact that his teachings are based on his unique interpretation of biblical texts.

I.e. Shincheonji believes that Lee Man-hee is the only one that can accurately interpret the Bible. That has lead to incredibly exclusionary teachings, similar to the '144.000 saints' teaching of the Jehova's Witnesses.

Most dangerously, Lee Man-hee is very eschatology-focused, in such a way that people within Schincheonji have claimed that they are not simply beholding the End Times, but are actively *bringing it about*.

This is also why some believe that they've purposefully spread the virus.

Schincheonji, like other cults, have very deceitful and aggressive ways of recruiting new members. E.g. they pose as a non-denominational christian church and gain your trust after months of 'bible study' before exposing their true teachings and loyalty to Lee Man-hee.

These tactics have resulted in the recruitment of atheists, agnostics and christians, which is why the cult has shown explosive growth in the last decade.

They've grown so massively, in fact, that they've set up lots of cell branches in many countries over the last few years.

This especially is scary considering how much they love to 'stay in touch' with all of their cell branches now that we know how fond they are of pathogens.

We haven't nearly reached peak scaremongering yet, however.

1) The cult has spread similar diseases twice before.
2) Infected members of the cult have been using travel extensively in the past few weeks, including to Israel.
3) They had a branch in Wuhan.
4) They scrubbed that branch off the internet immediately after the Wuhan outbreak.
5) Around half of all Korean Coronavirus cases are tied to the cult.
6) Lee Man-hee claims that his Messianic powers won't be fully manifested until after the apocalypse. Which "is close".
7) Shincheonji has gotten such an obvious bad reputation in South Korea that members have started lying about their affiliation in order to secretly continue their practices + recruitment.
8) As with any cult, it's almost impossible to leave. Apostates are threatened and abused.
9) Oh, yeah, Lee Man-hee also claims he's immortal, by the way. The guy's ****ing insane.

Make no mistake, people: Shincheonji has nothing to do with christianity (they're just using the name of Jesus Christ to further Lee's beliefs) and is the worst kind of cult.

Think I'm making shit up? One of the most popular apps in S. Korea right now is one that alerts you if you're close to one of Shincheonji's 'churches' or other affiliated establishments. Of which there are over 730 across S. Korea alone, btw.
yes, please lets us start rounding up cult members instead of doing what we should have done to begin with
and quarantine the mother ****ers who are sick. real ****ing quarantine.
because the next thing you will see is mobs with pitch forks and torches rounding up people in the middle of the night and stringing them up with a noose.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
My thoughts exactly. We all know what's coming and obsessing over this thread isn't doing my morale much good.

We have to take care of ourselves and obsessing over what ‘might’ happen isn’t healthy and the increased stress negatively affects your immune system that needs to be strong right now. If anyone is feeling overwhelmed then keep doing what you can to prepare and step back for awhile. Get your sleep and rest and know that God had everything under complete control and nothing is going to happen that hasn’t been preordained from above.
 

vector7

Dot Collector
Hmmm…what are the possible odds?

Edit: Ok, I'm late to the Koontz party here. :D

Matthew BrackenVerified Account@Matt_Bracken

A virus called Wuhan-400 makes people terribly ill … in a Dean Koontz thriller from 1981. How is it that some books appear to prophesy events?

The Eyes of Darkness features a Chinese military lab in Wuhan that creates a virus as a bioweapon; civilians soon become sick after accidentally contracting it

In fact, the one lab in China able to handle the deadliest viruses is in Wuhan and helped sequence the novel coronavirus the world is currently battling

Wuhan virus in 1981 Dean Koontz novel a coronavirus coincidence

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Simon Obeng

Replying to @CGTNOfficial

February 17, 2020

Check these coincidences in a book written in 1981 about a virus Wuhan-400 in 2020



View: View: https://twitter.com/simeoneos/status/1229627107753517056





The Eyes of Darkness

by Dean Koontz



wow



Think I'll watch it on the tablet, and when it throttles, I can switch over to the koontz book dealing with some chinese virus that fred gave us the link to- won't sleep tonight, but wasn't expecting to anyways lol.
...Now all I need is someone with popcorn delivery :D
Thanks again.


Share link to free online version of Koontz' book please..


Ho-wee cwrap!! That is one I haven't read yet. Off to the stacks to grab my copy to make sure somebody just didn't have fun with photoshop.


Simon Obeng

Replying to @CGTNOfficial

February 17, 2020

Check these coincidences in a book written in 1981 about a virus Wuhan-400 in 2020



View: View: https://twitter.com/simeoneos/status/1229627107753517056





The Eyes of Darkness

by Dean Koontz



wow


I cannot completely dismiss the idea that the Chinese leadership did this on purpose. Given that Chinese communists are credited with killing 80 million of their people, while the Soviet Union have only (?) 20 million attributed to them, it is not beyond the realm of possibility.

With the grand solar minimum approaching, their colonizing of African farming regions and their on and off difficulty feeding their current population, they may have decided to cut their population to reduce the load they have to prepare for.

The incident can be blamed on rogue scientists, bats or any of the other coronavirus carrying animals they have mentioned. And with the Dean Koontz novel plot they can blame it on (insert enemy name here).

The only thing that drives the timing is the solar minimum. The rest of their reasoning, I could not fathom if it turned out to be true.

As you said it will not matter who did it. Nothing about the cause changes the work we have to do to help our survival. Just grist for the mill.


Shadow


I saw this a bit ago, a bit woo but is really in the book. Not sure if anyone else posted

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US Author Dean Koontz Predicted The Coronavirus in His 1981 Eye of Darkness Novel

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An excerpt of the novel ‘The Eyes of Darkness’, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense creator Dean Koontz, which tells of a Chinese language navy lab that creates a virus as half of its organic weapons programme, is making rounds on social media.

In chapter 39 of his ebook, Koontz writes that the lab is situated in Wuhan, which lends the virus its identify, Wuhan-400.


Congress chief Manish Tewari has additionally tweeted excerpts from a ebook that went viral on the Web that the coronavirus concerned in the outbreak in China’s Wuhan seems to be man-made.

“Is coranavirus a organic weapon developed by the Chinese language known as Wuhan-400? This ebook was printed in 1981. Do learn the excerpt,” Congress chief Manish Tewari tweeted.


Tewari highlighted a paragraph that learn: “They name the stuff ‘Wuhan-400’ as a result of it was developed at their RDNA labs outdoors of the town of Wuhan, and it was the 4 hundredth viable pressure of man-made microorganisms created at that centre.”


Because the publish went viral, Twitterati flooded the social media with their reactions.

A consumer wrote, “Haha infinite monkey theorem. Decide any occasion and likelihood is that some ebook written at some would have an identical plot. Conspiracy principle has no finish.”

One other wrote, “Sensational … Little doubt China had changed Russia and USSR as rogue nation in Hollywood movies and later James Bond films.”

A publish learn, “Intriguing for positive, hope the reality comes out.”

A consumer remarked, “Okay whether it is then it certainly backfired on them!”

By the tip of Sunday, a complete of 1,770 individuals had died of the illness and 70,548 confirmed circumstances of novel coronavirus an infection had been reported in 31 provincial-level areas and the Xinjiang Manufacturing and Building Corps in China.

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WalknTrot

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I think Rush is going along with most other media types, even coast to coast am, is down playing it, and they are usually deep into the wooo. only one really talking about it is Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck. and beck I dont trust to much. I really believe the media is being told to calm the people down, to not excite people,
You can't expect prominent people in media with any credibility/reputation to go off half-cocked and speculative when there is still so little concrete information. The ones who are at least addressing and keeping an eye on the situation are really doing all they can right now. Give it a week or two.
 
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ktrapper

Veteran Member
A word of warning to all here who are using cleaners, disinefectants, antibacterial soaps, creams, lotions, etc etc.
Using and exposing your body to too much if these is like taking antibiotics. They will deplete or weaken your immune system. They work their way in and destroy your good bacteria.
It’s like drinking chlorinated water. Theres is no direct link to cancer caused by chlorinated water but it disinfects your gut same as it does the water. It destroys good gut bacteria same as bad, just like antibiotics. I read where 70% of your immune system comes from the health of your gut. When your immune system is compromised that’s when some cancers take hold. I am no medical or nutritional expert. I am just writing here from what I have seen and read. I believe that keeping your gut health up to par is one of the most important things you can do.

One of my wife’s cousins was admitted to the hospital years ago because her immune system had shut completely down. She was a germaphobe big time. Every type of soap in her house was anti bacterial. She heavily used Lysol and other cleaners and stuff with aroma smells for her house. Her doctor finally figured out it was from the over use of those products. She was very young at the time. She made it ok but wound up throwing away every cleaning product she had and went to baking soda and vinegars, plain soaps and water.
Her older sister was the same way. She died of cancer in her late 30s. We all think it was from the same reasons as did her doctors.

While I agree that we need to disinfect our mail now and items brought from town please avoid breathing the disinfectants and over using the antibacterials. Just plain old soap and water will wash away the nasties from your hands and down the drain with enough scrubbing.

We need our immune systems.
 
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Trivium Pursuit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Seriously...

Thank you for the time to explain.

My Mother, brother, and many nieces and nephews live with a 30 minute drive of this location...
You are welcome. Many Wisconsinites are sturdy and level headed. Traits that will come handy in this little adventure, and I am sure you have brought them up to speed on this.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
There are several good explanations for things like this and I tend to settle for two of them:

1. Fiction writers, especially thriller writers have to have imaginations and ask "what if?" The good ones then go do research to see if their plots actually work in the real-world or could work/were likely to happen and in what way. For the last 20 years that might every well lead a writer to a Chinese lab or industrial center to be ground Zero for a pandemic. A natural or man-made one.

2. Writers often get "in the zone" while writing, so yeah sometimes you get books like "The Titan" published 10 years before the Titanic sailed that is about a ship named The Titan that is about the same size as the Titanic, runs into an iceberg and also has a lot of people die from lack of lifeboats.

That may or may not have been a sort of "psychic flash" that the author didn't even know they were doing and/or simply a really good understanding of shipping at the time, the risks and the potential outcomes if you wanted to write a disaster novel.

But yeah, stuff like this does happen, I've lost count of how many inventions Robert Heinline put in his books and have since become reality in our daily lives.
 

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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A word of warning to all here who are using cleaners, disinefectants, antibacterial soaps, creams, lotions, etc etc.
Using and exposing your body to too much if these is like taking antibiotics. They will deplete or weaken your immune system. They work their way in and destroy your good bacteria.
It’s like drinking chlorinated water. Theres is no direct link to cancer caused by chlorinated water but it disinfects your gut same as it does the water. It destroys good gut bacteria same as bad, just like antibiotics. I read where 70% of your immune system comes from the health of your gut. When your immune system is compromised that’s when some cancers take hold. I am no medical or nutritional expert. I am just writing here from what I have seen and read. I believe that keeping your gut health up to par is one of the most important things you can do.

One of my wife’s cousins was admitted to the hospital years ago because her immune system had shut completely down. She was a germaphobe big time. Every type of soap in her house was anti bacterial. She heavily used Lysol and other cleaners and stuff with aroma smells for her house. Her doctor finally figured out it was from the over use of those products. She was very young at the time. She made it ok but wound up throwing away every cleaning product she had and went to baking soda and vinegars, plain soaps and water.
Her older sister was the same way. She died of cancer in her late 30s. We all think it was from the same reasons as did her doctors.

While I agree that we need to disinfect our mail now and items brought from town please avoid breathing the disinfectants and over using the antibacterials. Just plain old soap and water will wash away the nasties from your hands and down the drain with enough scrubbing.

We need our immune systems.

This line of thinking has a lot of merit, in my uneducated opinion.

You need to exercise "systems" to keep them working.

People who keep their kids sterile have the sickest kids, etc.
 

raven

TB Fanatic
Chris Sommerfeldt
@C_Sommerfeldt

54m

More than eight hours later, the second-in-command at the Department of Homeland Security has somehow not deleted these tweets in which he asks the Internet for help on how to track the #coronavirus. It’s a brave new world.
View: https://twitter.com/C_Sommerfeldt/status/1232157457109180417?s=20
House posted this article too:

This is one thing I have not seen posted. With the existing surveillance state capability our government shold be able to track individual cases.
Lets say you get the virus. They hand off your cell phone number to the NSA, Facebook and google. With that one phone number, they can then determine if you violate the terms of your self "quarantine". Are you (your phone) staying at home or are you out partying?
They can also determine who you come into contact with. Have you ever had google ask "How was your trip to Burger King or Home Depot? Ever had Facebook pop up your location? They know where you go.
They could enlist the credit card companies to track your purchases - they could simply put a hold on your credit card so that if you do go out, you can't do anything.
And once you are confirmed to have the virus, they can go into your history and determine who you have had contact with for the last 14 days.
 

WalknTrot

Veteran Member
A question for our medical types - with washing my hands so frequently, they have become very dry. If I use lotion on them, won't that defeat the purpose of washing them and attract picking up the virus? What do professionals use to keep skin from drying out?

It's a chronic problem, especially in winter, Find something with real lanolin in it. I always like the creme-type udder balms from a cold-cream type jar or tube. As far as making your hands more "attractive" to bugs? Not a concern. Actually, there is usually alcohol or some anti-bacterial ingredient (udder balm often contains an antiseptic agent) so not a minus at least.
 
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ktrapper

Veteran Member
This is one thing I have not seen posted. With the existing surveillance state capability our government shold be able to track individual cases.
Lets say you get the virus. They hand off your cell phone number to the NSA, Facebook and google. With that one phone number, they can then determine if you violate the terms of your self "quarantine". Are you (your phone) staying at home or are you out partying?
They can also determine who you come into contact with. Have you ever had google ask "How was your trip to Burger King or Home Depot? Ever had Facebook pop up your location? They know where you go.
They could enlist the credit card companies to track your purchases - they could simply put a hold on your credit card so that if you do go out, you can't do anything.
And once you are confirmed to have the virus, they can go into your history and determine who you have had contact with for the last 14 days.
There are always ways to defeat the tracking. Leave the phone, pay with cash that you had on hand and hit the road in a older vehicle that does not have satellite tracking. Just saying.
 

Trivium Pursuit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Some odds and ends for your viewing pleasure.
One: The October of 1987 "Stock Market Crash," was 500 points or SOME 25% of the total value of 2000 points, versus a 3 percent decline today. When we get a 20 plus percent decline in one day we will know the economic fecal material has hit the rotating blade.
Two: I write about this in my wordpress blog in more detail but the Lenovo Laptop I am typing on right now, and set up earlier this afternoon, has increased in price since last week from $399 to $517, and the memory went from $49 to $131, and the 2 year warranty went from $69 to $139. THE TOTAL COST OF MY LENOVO LAPTOP WAS $517, AND THE NEW COST FOR ANYBODY TODAY WILL BE $787, ALMOST $300 MORE IN LESS THAN A WEEK.

Three: In addition to the difficulty looming on the supply side, we are also looking a staggering price increases for whatever China can scrounge up to ship here. Yep, it is likely too late to buy China products at the "old" prices now that the President's Day sales are finished.
When I heard last week that raw chip prices in this country were already going up, I decided to take action. Sunday night at Best Buy, I bought a new 14' Lenovo laptop with an I5 chip of the newest generation, 8G RAM and 256G solid state drive on sale for $650. No woke sheep in the store, normal Traffic, store was full of stuff. And there was nothing coming out of the sales staff like, "Hey, this is the last one".

Keep in mind that I am in competition with 7.5 million of my best buddies here in Dallas for these things. And I was able to buy it at a sale price still. The window is certainly closing soon, but this week you should probably be able to buy Tech gear at Best Buy if you want it.

FYI, They had 4 samples of the Microsoft surface 13" laptop on display paired specked out identically to the one I got, it was $999. I asked if there was really any difference between the 2 and they said not much, just that everything is wired a little more solidly in the Surface and there's no bloatware on it.
 
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Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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There are always ways to defeat the tracking. Leave the phone, pay with cash that you had on hand and hit the road in a older vehicle that does not have satellite tracking. Just saying.

My first thoughts too.

BUT...Most peeps are too lazy to do this.

Facial recognition will come into play, if needed.
 

raven

TB Fanatic
There are always ways to defeat the tracking. Leave the phone, pay with cash that you had on hand and hit the road in a older vehicle that does not have satellite tracking. Just saying.
That was quick so I guess that like me you can do this . . . are doing this . . . have been doing this for a while. I have had a rule for 10 years - I do not answer the phone before 9AM or after 9PM and I still get bitched out for not answering at midnight.
 

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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So, the virus was possibly stolen by the chicoms from a Canadian lab.

It seems to move slower in Eurotype populations and runs wild through the asians. (oriental and arab)

This is a ready made plot line for a best seller.
 

raven

TB Fanatic
My first thoughts too.

BUT...Most peeps are too lazy to do this.

Facial recognition will come into play, if needed.
well, we are not really concerned about introverted home bodies who never go anywhere and have no friends.
the problem is extroverted busybodies who have hundreds of friends and travel all over the world.
those people have the latest smart phone and every social app made.

inside of six months, introverts will rule the world . . . for about 10 minutes
 

Weft and Warp

Senior Member
A question for our medical types - with washing my hands so frequently, they have become very dry. If I use lotion on them, won't that defeat the purpose of washing them and attract picking up the virus? What do professionals use to keep skin from drying out?
I'm not a "medical type", but back when I worked with enzymes in the lab (research for developing test kits) I washed my hands after every change of gloves. I lost count of how many times I washed my hands each day but I eventually ended up with very dry, chapped hands. I was advised by the enzymologist on our staff that instead of washing with soap and hot water, I should switch to soap and cold water. After putting this advice into practice, my hands eventually healed. It worked in that situation....FWIW.
 

twobarkingdogs

Veteran Member
A question for our medical types - with washing my hands so frequently, they have become very dry. If I use lotion on them, won't that defeat the purpose of washing them and attract picking up the virus? What do professionals use to keep skin from drying out?
It's a chronic problem, especially in winter, Find something with real lanolin in it. I always like the creme-type udder balms from a cold-cream type jar or tube. As far as making your hands more "attractive" to bugs? Not a concern. Actually, there is usually alcohol or some anti-bacterial ingredient (udder balm often contains an antiseptic agent) so not a minus at least.

I wash my hands a lot when I am working in my shop so my skin gets dry. I use Bag Balm on my hands and while its a bit greasy that wipes off with a towel. They make 2 types which I have used, one for animals and one for hand and body, which I'll link to below. I have both in different parts of the house/shop and I can't really tell the difference. Go to the different sites and read the reviews.

I have a buddy who is a O'Keeffe's fan and I have used it at his place. It seems alright but a bit thinner then I like.

tbd


Vermont's Original Bag Balm Animal Ointment for Dry Chapped Skin Conditions Lanolin-Based Helps Keep Pets Skin Smooth and Soft, 8 Oz Tin - Walmart.com

Vermont's Original Bag Balm Skin Moisturizer, Moisturizing Ointment for Dry Skin that can Crack Split or Chafe on Hands Feet Elbows Knees Shoulders and More, 8 Ounce Tin - Walmart.com
 

jed turtle

a brother in the Lord
Limbaugh: Coronavirus Being 'Weaponized' to Bring Down Trump

Limbaugh: Coronavirus Being ‘Weaponized’ to Bring Down Trump
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Pam Key24 Feb 20203,198
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Syndicated conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on his Monday broadcast warned coronavirus was being hyped by “the drive-by media” to bring down President Donald Trump.

Limbaugh said, “It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus.”

He continued, “The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. The drive-by media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as, ‘Oh my God, if you get it, you’re dead,’ do you know what the — I think the survival rate is Ninety-eight percent. Ninety-eight percent of people who get the coronavirus survive. It’s a respiratory system virus. It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponized. All superpower nations weaponize bioweapons. They experiment with them. The Russians, for example, have weaponized fentanyl. Now fentanyl is also not what it is represented to be.”

He added, “I’m not trying to get you to let your guard down. Nobody wants to get any of this stuff. I mean, you never —I hate getting the common cold. You don’t want to get the flu. It’s miserable. But we’re not talking about something here that’s going to wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there. This is a classic illustration of how media coverage — even if this media coverage isn’t stacked — even if this just the way media normally does things. This is a hyped, panic-filled version. Exactly how the media deals with these things to create audience, readership, interest, clicks what have you.”
I wonder if Rush has solved the mystery of crematoriums operating 24/7 across China....
 

ktrapper

Veteran Member
well, we are not really concerned about introverted home bodies who never go anywhere and have no friends.
the problem is extroverted busybodies who have hundreds of friends and travel all over the world.
those people have the latest smart phone and every social app made.

inside of six months, introverts will rule the world . . . for about 10 minutes
Yep, pretty much the extent of my social network is this forum, and I have three weather apps
 

coalcracker

Veteran Member
So, the virus was possibly stolen by the chicoms from a Canadian lab.

It seems to move slower in Eurotype populations and runs wild through the asians. (oriental and arab)

This is a ready made plot line for a best seller.

Yes, it is a ready-made plot line for a best seller.

And we can guess where this plot line is leading, can't we?

Spoiler alert:

I see a chapter ahead titled, "The Dragon Roars."
 

Zoner

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Zoner

Veteran Member
I’m in the Fort Lauderdale international airport and there’s not one person wearing a mask .....we’re doomed.
 

ktrapper

Veteran Member
Got ya with the license plate reader and the facial recognition software.
But not on the back of my horse up in the Bob Marshall
We live 8 miles off the last maintained road. No facial readers or tag readers around our parts, just a run down bar and post office and cows. Well there might be a camera in the post office.
I suppose they could track me with satellite if they were that bored.
 

coalcracker

Veteran Member
We have to take care of ourselves and obsessing over what ‘might’ happen isn’t healthy and the increased stress negatively affects your immune system that needs to be strong right now. If anyone is feeling overwhelmed then keep doing what you can to prepare and step back for awhile. Get your sleep and rest and know that God had everything under complete control and nothing is going to happen that hasn’t been preordained from above.

Sound psychological reasoning.

We will all need breaks at some point, and it's great to have such self-awareness to know when. There is a big difference between Capt Eddy, who has been facing down this boogeyman for consecutive weeks, and the multitudes who immediately deny and run from the scary truths that confront them.
We are different animals.

After a prep run today, I may get into some Clint Eastwood movies. The Outlaw Josie Wales, or a spaghetti Western? Decisions, decisions...
 

raven

TB Fanatic
If it gets loose in NYC, there won't be any stopping it.
It is pretty late in this game. Every city with direct international flights should be treated as if they have it. I do not know them all but a partial list would be NY, LA, SF, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington DC, Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio.
You can google population density if you like. I did for LA - twice the density of Wuhan - won't be any stopping it there either.
 
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