February 24th ... we got the plagues affecting both the chickens and the pigs :wacko: A "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 avian flu has been reported in China's Hunan province, China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said. According to a report from Reuters 4,500 chickens died on the farm where the outbreak occurred. The government culled nearly 18,000 chickens as a result of the outbreak. The World Health Organization says that while human cases of H5N1 can occur, it "does not infect humans easily." - Fair Use - Thank you, Arthur, for your vacation testimony! What an awesome vacation you must of had. What a miracle we are witnessing in just 1 year since your trip ... the desert is truly blooming again. :yahoo: IDF targeted Damascus last night ... :whistle: Syrian capital rocked by explosions as Israel claims responsibility Al Arabiya News Syria’s capital Damascus was rocked by multiple explosions late on Sunday, and the country’s air defenses fired back in the latest attack by Israel on targets in Syria. State media said air defenses confronted a wave of “enemy rockets” coming from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. In a rare move, the Israeli military claimed responsibility through a spokesman on Twitter, saying it staged a series of strikes targeting the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in Syria and the Gaza Strip. Residents said multiple explosions shook Damascus and lasted for about 15 minutes as air defenses fired back. It was not immediately clear what targets were hit. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict, said the explosions resulted from Israeli bombing of suspected Iranian-backed militias in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport. The Syrian state news agency Sana said “most of the enemy missiles were shot down before reaching their targets,” stressing that “no airport” was struck. Since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria, mainly targeting government forces as well as allied Iranian forces and Hezbollah fighters. Israel frequently strikes at targets inside Syria, but has largely refrained from public admissions of its covert military operations there. A missile attack blamed on Israel in mid-February killed three Syrian and four Iranian fighters in the Damascus airport area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Iran is an ally of Damascus and has offered military advisers and sent militiamen and material support to help President Bashar Assad’s government forces in the nine-year civil war. Israel considers Iran a national security threat and says it won’t tolerate Iran’s presence on its borders. - Fair Use - February 25th ... Can you believe in just 7 days is Israel’s 3rd time to the voting booth? It seemed so far away when they announced the date and here it is ... just a week away. :whistle: Ok ... I just read this scenario that Savedat33 posted on her forum board. I can truly see it unfolding this way and it will cause the G/M team to covet the spoils of Israel! :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn Per Savedat33 Just a thought as I found this buried in an article today. For the full article, follow the link below• ••• Update (0900ET): Iran's MP Mahmoud Sadeghi said he had tested positive for the coronavirius, telling supporters: "I don't have a lot of hope of continuing life in this world". CBS has confirmed that it was an Italian doctor visiting the Spanish isle of Tenerife who prompted all guests at his hotel to be confined to their rooms on Tuesday. The country has now confirmed nearly 60 cases on Tuesday. In the UAE, home to long-haul carriers Emirates and Etihad, airlines have suspended flights to and from Iran for at least a week, cutting the country's 80 million people off from thousands of flights. ••• - Fair Use - This thread is getting awfully lengthy. Perhaps it would be wise to start a part B thread. Just saying. TR
Whether a strain of avian flu is deemed "highly pathogenic" relates to its ability to kill chickens, according to USGS.
The Associated Press, AFP, Damascus, Syria Monday Feb 24, 2020
So, one of the terrible outcomes of a plague/pandemic, is economic calamity. We are beginning to see this in China. Millions of people remain out of work. The factories are closed and no one really knows how many people, who manned those factories, are now dead or dying. Even if those factories were to open, people need to find childcare because schools are not open. Public transportation is down. Most small to medium businesses will run through their savings if the epidemic lasts longer than 3 months. The ripples of this will be felt throughout the world as the world has turned to China as a basket for inexpensive parts/ labor. Now, this can and will happen in any country the virus really takes hold in. Now... for the interesting part - Coronavirus is already in Iran, which means it will soon spread to Turkey. If you read Ezekiel 38, it describes pillaging for lack of a better term. And the first four seals are the antichrist, war (peace taken from earth), famine and plague... what if we are seeing the primer of all these events? What if the reason Turkey/ Iran etc isn’t for oil but actual spoil - cattle, food, land etc - because their actual economy and country has been decimated by virus/plague? Also, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil is China. China won’t be buying as much oil until it can recover, if it can.
