I always have it on me and I do sleep with it wrapped around my wrist{my husband says someday I will poke someone's eye out with that thing}
From the "Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis: “My Dear Wormwood, Plagues are a most effective weapon given to us by our father below. Normally, Christians are quite comfortable in receiving the dreaded sacraments and gathering in their prayers and other heinous Arts. But if you can stir up a hysteria by means of a plague so that they cut themselves off from our enemies gifts to them, the torment of isolation will drive them to despair and season them quite deliciously much to our delight. Get them to forget about their usual practices of prayer, fasting and alms giving and encourage them to become gluttons, slanderers, and lose all regard for their neighbor thinking only about themselves and their immediate needs. Storing up treasures which we can send moth and rust to destroy further sweetening their torment. If you can, help them to redefine their usual words like “church” and “fellowship” and “ministry” so that they feel comfortable cutting themselves off from our enemies care and they can be tempted all the more. Yes, Wormwood, a plague is a tried and true method of taking their eyes off our enemy and getting them to worship their own bodies. A most desirable position for we tempters. Never let a good crisis go to waste! Your Affectionate Uncle, Screwtape”
Joe Hoft of the Gateway Pundit, confirms FromRome.Info’s findings on Corona mortality March 17, 2020 From Rome Editor Leave a comment by Br. Alexis Bugnolo In an article, by Joe Hoft, entitled, EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Shows Director General of World Health Organization Severely Overstated the Fatality Rate of the Coronavirus Leading to the Greatest Global Panic in History, published by the Gateway Pundit, today, March 17, 2020, the observations on each aspect of the true mortality rate of he Wuhan virus, reported here at FromRome.Info in our recent article, Why that 3.4% Mortality rate is a lie, has been confirmed. Mr. Hoft writes: The controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, claimed in a press conference in early March that the fatality rate for the coronavirus was many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu. This egregiously false premise has led to the greatest panic in world history. The Director General of the WHO spoke on March 3, 2020 and shared this related to the coronavirus: While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease. Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected. This statement led to the greatest panic in world history as the media all over the world shared and repeated that the coronavirus was many, many times more deadly than the common flu. The problem is his statement is false. It was not accurate! See the rest of Mr. Hoft’s, article at the Gateway Pundit https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ding-to-the-greatest-global-panic-in-history/ , where he discusses the actual mortality rates of the winter flu and Corona virus and compares them to actual numbers of known infections to make similar observations, as I have done in recent days. https://fromrome.info/2020/03/17/jo...-fromrome-infos-findings-on-corona-mortality/
Thanks for posting, Richard. This is important because, in my opinion, we don't know the truth yet about how lethal this virus really is. I just watched Alex Jones of Infowars interview Mr. Hoft and his twin brother who lives in Hong Kong. His brother is a vice president of a large company with offices in Hong Kong and China. He said Hong Kong is 100% back to work with very few deaths and their China office is running at about 50%. Right now the media is floating the idea that 'social distancing' and other restrictions will be in effect for 18 months. He also said his family was visiting his wife's family near Wuhan in January, and he, his wife, and son all became sick with corona virus symptoms. He said it was no worse than the regular flu but they were never tested. He, too, does not believe the mainstream narrative regarding how lethal this virus is . The three of them agreed that Trump had to do something or he would've been blasted as soon as there was a single death. Alex Jones also mentioned toward the end of the show that Asians have a higher death rate from this virus. I've read in multiple places that this was true for the SARS (eg corona virus) epidemic in the early 2000's. Alex Jones was one of the first in the media sounding the alarm on what was going on in China and telling people to prepare. At some point he changed his mind about its lethality and now thinks its being used to create absolute panic and destroy the world economy.
Here's the link: https://www.infowars.com/coronavirus-hoax-proven-china-now-100-percent-back-to-work/
It’s all so strange. I read today that Apple is closing all its business outside China, but not inside China. What is going on??????
Dear MOG family, I almost never post, but I just read that our diocese is ending all public Masses too. I must confess that I did acknowledge the possibility since so many others have had theirs cancelled as well, but never thought it would happen here. I live in northwestern New Mexico and our diocese is spread out over a very large area and is not heavily populated. I must have thought we'd be spared. I feel like I've been kicked in the chest. So sad. Both my husband and I are 67 years old, so no longer in the spring chicken category, but I am more upset at the loss of Mass than I am about possibly catching the virus. So I am stepping out from my status as a lurker to more active participation on this wonderful forum. I thank God for you all and pray for our spiritual strength. May God's love and grace sustain us all.
Asymptomatic Transmission Explained https://www.minnpost.com/health/2020/03/how-can-an-asymptomatic-person-still-spread-the-coronavirus/ If it doesn’t make sense to you that a person can have enough virus in his or her body to be able to spread the infection, but not enough to feel ill, you’re not alone. It doesn’t make sense, but there is an explanation. . . . . Infectious before becoming ill So how can a person be infected enough to spread the virus, but not enough to feel ill? We tend to think that the sicker one appears, the more infectious one is, but that may not be the case with a novel virus like COVID-19, where no one’s immune system recognizes it. This allows the virus to enter the cells of our respiratory tract without being recognized for a while. It sets up shop, and immediately begins reproducing millions of new viruses that fall out into our respiratory tract. With no immunological fire alarms triggered, the not yet symptomatic host feels fine, but a simple throat-clearing cough (and we do this fairly often) or an unwitting sneeze (‘must have been some dust off the keyboard’) can send millions of highly infectious viral particles into a shared office space.
For some reason, to me that sounds so Irish, like being asked, "Have you lived here all your life?" and getting the response, "Not yet."
This is something I thought myself too regarding the mortality rate, but then when I look at Italy and how their health care system is buckling under pressure with an influx of cases, that's something we haven't seen happen in relation to the common flu, it leaves me somewhat perplexed. Why over react if common flu has a higher percentage rate? Why, if Covid19 isn't as deadly as the flu (according to these numbers) the morgues are full in Italy and Iran to max capacity?
as I understand it, coronavirus is dangerous because it causes pneumonia more easily than the common flu? why are communist countries like China, Cuba in control? Russia also seems to have control over the epidemic,?
Can I ask for prayers, please, for my youngest child, Stephanie. She is studying at University on the North Island while we all live on the South Island of NZ . She does not realise that soon our whole country will be locked down. I want her to fly home, but she wishes to stay up in the North Island. I am starting to feel really sorrowfull about it because naturally we do not want our children to brave this alone, and she might get very sick and have no one around to care for her. Today, we bought her an airline ticket to fly back to the South Island in 6 days from now, but shes being quite stubborn. Any day now,an announcement will be made that all NZ schools and universities will close. Then pandemonium will ensue. Please pray for her to see reason and come home!
