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  Coronavirus Positive

  by snare&racket in

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  hey all,.

  i'm day six of isolation, confirmed to have coronavirus.

  i have been seeing very sick cv positive patients over the last month in my a&e role (emergency physician) it was inevitable i would contract it.. just wanted to give some symptom and treatment advice, it's anecdotal but may help.. started as sore throat and headache, then croaky voice, then dry cough, then episodic transient fevers, all this over the first few days.

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  I`m sure we all sincerely thank you for your experience and advice as Simon says ,Snare i wish you a speedy recovery and please get well soon.

  i`m so sorry to hear this as I`m sure we all are.

  take care.
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  IT experts

  by Youngaposthate in

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  2. tech-support

  good day former jdubs, i'm a new member, particularly looking for it experts whome can verify if the jw apps track its members and record audio, particularly the khonf app.

  if you download app on google play store and click the headphones, a pop up requiring user to click pop up to enable audio recording is displayed.

  i'm minorly aware of the evolution of tech and tracking scandals.

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  I hope you can get the answers you are looking for Youngaposthate ( love the name) Sorry I can`t help you ,but welcome and stick around once you have found what you are looking for ,this is a great site for exJW`s .
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  Randy Waters

  by Victor in

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  if you live in san antonio and would like to help me help randy waters please send me a pm.

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  Victor ? What say you ?
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  Randy Waters

  by Victor in

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  if you live in san antonio and would like to help me help randy waters please send me a pm.

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  I send my best wishes to Randy Waters also and ditto to what BB said.
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  Jdumbs Cant Be Silenced!!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  just saw this , sent to me in an email.just another way of trying to encourage me to come back coz this is it!

  they are doing all they can to still reach out to people despite the lockdown!

  i am appalled but at the same time ,i can very well remember when i used to be doing the same thing when pimi thinking i am really helping people , giving them a positive hope , something to look forward to n all.. amazing how thoughts and mind sets once opened changes so drastically!.

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  Aaahh Zing ,I miss the sunshine Coast of QLD ,Have very fond memories of the place even while I was an active JW.

  Sorry, nostalgia got the better of me .Yes the Jdubs still have to get their time in so letter writing is a good way to go .

  You can spend a couple of hours just writing a few letters with coffee breaks inbetween and you dont even have to leave your house ,except to post the letters .

  Then again most witnesses I know wouldn`t spend the money on stamps so most likely it was a walk around the neighbourhood just letter dropping.
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  Happy 20th Birthday to JWD / JWN

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  as sgt pepper sang, "it was 20 years ago today" ... that i made my first post on my first forum.. i obviously didn't put too much thought into what it should say although i must have burned 45 posts testing things and was too lazy to reset the counter before going live (?):.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/46/welcome.

  but somehow, it worked and grew and here we all are, 20 years on.

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  Despite what the video clip says none of us here would say "Simple Simon" as applying to you or your team .

  May you live and prosper long .
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  I want to challenge Any JW, past or present, to show me, From Scripture a couple of things;

  by Testeverything in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  where it is commanded/commissioned that a group of people should build a house of worship called a kingdom hall??

  ---i have a lot of relevant scriptures on that subject.

  i would also like to see where it says in the word of yahweh that he chose a man-made organization to be his "voice" that he speaks through; .

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  Testeverything

  Hi ,my friend ,you may have found yourself on the other side of the coin to use that phrase .

  This forum ,while welcoming active JW`s who are genuine in questioning ,or are troubled or even confused about some of their beliefs ,this forum is primarily of those who have exited the JW religion and are hell bent on exposing the fraudulent religion for what it is.

  But by all means stick around ,i`m sure you will be amazed by what you learn here from ex JW`s that make up the bulk of this site .

  Ohh , and Welcome ,maybe you have something that we could learn from ?
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  Next we'll probably experience famine

  by wannabefree in

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  this morning my wife made the comment ... "we'll probably experience famine next.".

  i don't know that she'd come up with this on her own.

  has anyone else heard a jw talking about this?.

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  In the 1960`s my mentor/tutor in the religion told me that Buzzards / Raptorial birds were laying more than the normal /usual eggs than they normally did ,and it was a sign that the GT and Armageddon was close at hand .

  The birds picking the bones clean of those slain all over the earth.

  I kid you not.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  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.

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  If you can believe the figures and I have no reason to doubt John Hopkins Univ. America now has more infected people than China .? That is of course if the Chinese figures can be believed .

  However the American figures are way over what they should be given the time frame we had about this virus coming from China.

  Could it be that America has been slow to appreciate the severity of the disease and not taken enough adequate steps to stem the tide of infection ?

  I am amazed that Russia seems to have escaped the virus the way they have with less than 900 infected people so far .

  If I may compare Australia and New Zealand`s response to the virus I think NZ has been ahead of Australia by coming out and laying down the law straight away whereas Australia has been coming out in dribs and drabs as to what restrictions are being applied .

  Just my observations about Covid-19
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  After the Covid-19 crisis: what will happen?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  what will happen after the covid-19 crisis?.

  - economy with all the stand still corporations, people without work and mass injections of support money?.

  - politics with the end of globalisation, closed borders and new geopolitic friends (italy / china russia), lack of support and working together in eu and local politics, did the current politician the right thing?.

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  eyeuse2badub ,

  My son and I were just saying that the other day ,and if I may suggest, it will carry on over from December to Jan,Feb Mar,Apr,May and June ,before the baby boom is over .

  The sad thing is there may be a lot more little jw`s in the world