lol. The Park junta that built South Korea wouldn't have allowed this. 500 infections linked to this Falun Gong like cult.Why the sudden uptick in Korean cases ?
Well here is your answer, apologies in advance for my terrible korean.
One of the members of a Korean cult has the virus
'코로나확진' 쏟아진 신천지…'신도 단속·거짓종용' 의혹
신도 대응방향 담긴 내부 공지문 추정 유포…"그날 예배 안 갔다" 주문신천지 "내부 공지 돌린 일 없어…비방세력 유포여부 파악 중""신천지 대구교회 일요일 하루 8천명 예배…수요일도 예배 의무" 주장도신천지예수교회 홈페이지[신천지예수교회 홈페이지 캡처] (서울=연합뉴스) 양정우 기자 = 신천지예수교회가 신도 중에서 신종...n.news.naver.com
Title: Shinchonji poured out 'corona confirmation'… Suspicion of Shinto crackdown and Cult Activities
“Presumption of Internal Notices Containing Shinto Response Directions… "I didn't go to worship that day"
Xintiandi: "No internal notice has been turned ……” (no one internally told us of the danger of attending)
"Shincheonji Daegu Church had a Sunday 8,000 people worship… Both Wednesday and Sunday worship services are an obligation”
Translator Note: This is not a Christian church, this is a cult. One of the members was infected and was still forced to come.
“Reported by Yang Jung-woo, reporter Yang Jung-woo reported that the church has been using false notifications by members of the Shinchon Ji-Jesu church.
“ According to a plurality of sources on the 19th, images and articles were posted on the morning of online news such as SNS and YouTube.
The outside department is known as a department for escort and issue management within the Sincheonji.”
According to the dissemination notice, Shincheonji Shinto is known to the outside, and Shincheonji is considered to be a member of Shinchonji divided the order of the response direction. “ (Cult was ordered to stop prayer gatherings, they refused)
“First, if the person is known as Shincheonji Shindoji, if the other person does not have a negative perception of Shincheonji, he said, "That day I did not go to worship.”
Even though it was known as Shincheonji Shinto, there was an order to respond that it was not going to Shincheonji Church. "Thank you for protecting my health thanks to my parents. To show that there is no relationship between me and S at all," he said.
If you are suspected of being in a new place, "To be sure that you have nothing to do with me", "," What is the relationship between me and the corona in S? Do you want me to have a corona? "
“On the other hand, Shin Cheon-ji, Daegu Church's chief public officer, explained, "As a general manager, I have never issued an internal notice.
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In Shincheon-ji Daegu Church, a 61-year-old woman was identified as the 31st patient on the 18th, and on the 19th, 10 people who went to church with the patient were confirmed to have the virus
Patient 31 attended the worship service on Sunday 9th and 16th at 8:00 am, and Shincheonji explained that 460 members attended the 16th chapel.
Those who are familiar with the inside of Shincheonji claim that the Shincheonji Shinto shrine, which had been worshiped at the Daegu Church every Sunday, was about 8,000 people. Particularly during the noon service, there are witnesses that a great number of believers gathered.
In addition, unlike the ordinary church, the Shinchonji site told the congregation to come to church worship on Sundays and Wednesdays.
A former senior official in Shinchonji said, "Since Shinchonji values the external image, we are not telling the authorities the truth. We must track the facts in the authorities and the media."
Former Shinto branch of Shincheonji Church also said, "Shincheonji divides the whole country into 12 tribes. Each tribe headquarters has subdivisions."
"Shincheonji is going to worship on Sundays as well as on Wednesday. There are alternative worship services for Mondays for those who have not seen Sunday worship."
Mobile posting; will clean up later
Tl;dr : It was not a Typhoid Mary, the spread of the corona virus in korea was a patient who was in a large cult attending service with 8,000 other practitioners. The cult knew of the risk and were asked to suspend service. The government didn’t have confirmation or even a suspicion of the disease so it just looks to me like they are trying to cover their ass.
Again sorry for shitty translation.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...korea-mounting-anger-rumours-over-shincheonjiCoronavirus: in South Korea, mounting anger, rumours over Shincheonji church as cases rise
- The spike in Covid-19 cases has heightened interest in the controversial church, which accounts for over half of the country’s infections
- Anger and mistrust reached a peak when an online post detailed its alleged plans to infiltrate traditional churches to spread the virus
A man wearing a face mask rides an electric scooter in front of the Daegu branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus. Anger and frustration at the controversial church has grown, after a cluster of infections were linked to it. Photo: AFP
South Koreans have taken to the internet to spread rumours and express their frustrations and anger at the controversial Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which is linked to more than 50 per cent of the country’s confirmed coronavirus infections.
This came as the South Korean government on Wednesday said it had finally received a directory of all 210,000 members of the religious group, after several days of discussions with its leaders.
A member of a Shincheonji church in Daegu, 300km southeast of Seoul, became a “super-spreader” of the virus. The 61-year-old woman, who was identified as the country’s 31st confirmed case, took part in services at the Daegu branch of the church last week and has since been connected to an additional 455 cases among Shincheonji members nationwide, according to investigations by the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
Workers sanitise a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, South Korea. Photo: Reuters
South Korea currently has the second-highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world, with over 1,500 infected as of Wednesday evening. The spike in cases has heightened interest in the religious group and has shed new light on its leader, members and religious practices.
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Established in 1984 and seen by mainstream churches as a cult, followers believe the group’s founder, Lee Man-hee, to be the second coming of Jesus who will bring restoration to the world. Members are mostly known to the public for trying to evangelise pedestrians by acting like students trying to conduct surveys. But attitudes towards the church have become more critical as the outbreak among Shincheonji members dominates news cycles and spreads fear and anger.
One netizen commented: “As the day care centre has taken a break for an indefinite amount of time, I don’t know if both of us can continue to work as one of us needs to tend to the children at home … We are barely making it as it is … I feel resentment towards the woman from the Daegu church.”
The woman identified as the “super-spreader” at the Daegu branch of the church, which has 9,336 members, was accused of initially refusing to be tested for Covid-19 after she showed symptoms of a high fever when she was hospitalised earlier in the month.
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Another internet user commented that the religious group was “being rightfully criticised as they haven’t turned in any of their member directories at a time when the situation is this severe”.
Government authorities could not trace all the members who visited the Shincheonji church in Daegu from other regions as the religious group was initially uncooperative in turning in their member directories and contact lists to health authorities.
As hundreds of confirmed cases came out of the religious group over the week, government officials in Gyeonggi province forcibly entered Shincheonji’s headquarters in Gwacheon to obtain its member list. It finally received the directory on Wednesday.
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Additionally, more than 600 members of the Daegu church could not be reached by phone.
A 27-year-old woman who became the first confirmed case in Yongin, just south of Seoul, was caught lying to her family and government authorities about not visiting the Daegu church. Surveillance cameras caught her entering the church last week.
By spreading the virus to regular churches, Shincheonji is trying to quell the exposure that it is currently receiving.A former member of Shincheonji
Anger and mistrust at Shincheonji reached a peak when an online post detailed the group’s alleged plans to infiltrate traditional churches. A pastor at one of these churches wrote that a whistle-blower from inside Shincheonji had tipped him off that members were being ordered to spread the coronavirus to other churches.
“When I first heard about this so-called rumour, I believed that it was 100 per cent true,” said Kim Ha-jung, a woman in her fifties who was a member of Shincheonji in its early days in the 1990s. She used a pseudonym out of fear that the group would find her again.
“By spreading the virus to regular churches, Shincheonji is trying to quell the exposure that it is currently receiving,” she said. “They’re afraid their lies will all come out in public.”
South Korea’s 9.68 million Christians are on high alert, with some mega-churches, including Yoido Full Gospel Church in central Seoul, which is the country’s biggest with 560,000 church-goers – cancelling all church functions except Sunday services for over a month.
While many churches have substituted their Sunday services for an online streaming service, churches that were open on Sunday drastically increased security measures at their doors. At many of these churches, only registered members were allowed inside while new members were asked to visit the church in two weeks’ time.
Coronavirus cases in South Korea rise to 1,595
27 Feb 2020
A church in Suwon, a city just south of Seoul, reported to Kukmin Ilbo that it had caught two people who appeared to be Shincheonji members. One man was questioned after being identified as an unregistered member. He ran away after a church administrator tried to take a picture of him. Another man who was caught inside the church building was identified as a Shincheonji member who had visited the church on numerous occasions in the past.
Hwang Euy-jong, the head of the Korea Christian Cult Counselling Centre in the Yeongnam district, said such rumours should be taken seriously by traditional churches.
“Such commands would not be anything out of the ordinary for a group that has carried out covert activities for all of its existence,” said Hwang.
“I know cases where 200 Shincheonji members were sent out undercover to a traditional church with 10,000 members, and the church later crumbled.”
A man wearing a face mask walks in front of the Daegu branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in the southeastern city of Daegu. Photo: AFP
Kim, the woman who was a member of Shincheonji for 13 years, said every member of the religious group is encouraged to blend in with worshippers at traditional church services.
“The goal is to act like perfect human beings to start making relationships with people in the congregation,” said Kim.
“After concentrating on a member of the church from anywhere between a year to three years, we lead the regular church goer to meet an administrator from Shincheonji.”
Coronavirus: leading Korean health official is member of church at epicentre
25 Feb 2020
Na Su-ah, an alias, is another former Shincheonji member who lives in the currently beleaguered city of Daegu. She messaged a friend who is still a member of the religious group after news broke out about the church cluster.
“My friend texted me that news about the coronavirus was propaganda that was attempting to slow down the development of Shincheonji,” said Na.
According to Yonhap News, Lee Man-hee, the leader of the religious group, announced to his followers via a communication application that “the recent disease was a temptation by the devil to test our faith”.
The religious group has warned that any person caught spreading false news about Shincheonji or impersonating a member of the religious group will be met with legal action.
“Don’t slander them,” commented one netizen about the religious followers. “Think about the act of condemning those who are unable to think rationally.”
Translation: most Christians on Korean Weibo are saying this is divine judgement on the cult.
Don't forget the Nevada Cliffs.
Pete Buttigieg Cancels Several Campaign Events Citing Illness
Three of the four events were fundraisers aimed to help Buttigieg reach $13 million in donations by Super Tuesdaytime.com
I think Buttigieg might have been kissed by Corona-chan. No way he'd cancel over a cold.
You can put me in a cabin with a six month supply of chewing tobacco and foodstuffs and I'll fuck off for awhile if I get it.
Does tonic water still have quinine? It used to have a small amount ircc
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In Phil Dick's"A Scanner Darkly" there is a bit of dark humor in which a character, who is encountering a bit of a drought, imagines what would happen if everybody on the west coast crashed at the same time. It's kinda weird to consider something like that could happen IRL. I could see some long-term alkies having problems as well if store shelves don't get restocked.
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Good evening. Welcome to Talking Points PM for February 24. Friendly word of advice: You might not want to check your 401(k) balance if you want a good night sleep tonight. The coronovirus has Wall Street feeling sick right now. More on that in a moment. But first, let's check in with a Spanish bank looking to grow in the US from its Boston beachhead.
CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS
The executive chairwoman of Banco Santander, the Spanish banking giant, sees the transition to digital banking as an opportunity, not a threat. She points to one study, by Novantas, that showed about 20 percent of new checking accounts that opened last year in the US took place at digital-only banks, aka “neobanks.” That compares to about 5 percent in 2017. And she thinks Santander’s own digital bank, known as Openbank, could fulfill the role of disrupter in the US.
Botin spoke with me about her ambitions when she visited Boston last week for a board meeting of Santander’s US arm, which is based in Boston, and a town hall-style meeting with employees at the Marriott Long Wharf hotel. During the town hall meeting, she cited one factor that gives her hope about the upcoming digital expansion: a dismantling of the internal silos that naturally formed at a banking conglomerate built via a series of acquisitions in multiple countries. (The latest expansion effort came to light today, with the news that Santander is acquiring a payments processing business in Mexico.)
Another factor: Botin has largely resolved the regulatory issues that once dogged her company in the US. The former US chief, Scott Powell, all but completed that task before leaving in December to tackle a new set of issues for Wells Fargo. Tim Wennes took over at that point as Botin’s top lieutenant in the US.
Like a number of other big banks, Santander is going digital to grow beyond its core branch footprint and to capture a new generation of bank customers. Another good local example is Citizens Financial. The Providence-based bank now has more than $6 billion in deposits in its Citizens Access online business after launching it in 2018.
In the US, the branches Santander inherited through its acquisition of Sovereign Bank largely hem it into an eight-state footprint on the East Coast. But maybe not for much longer -- if the Openbank concept crosses the Atlantic.
Santander revamped and relaunched its digital bank in Spain with a new web platform and app in 2017. It began its global expansion by entering other European countries last year and now has $11 billion in deposits.
Santander is currently evaluating the logistics and business case for a US launch of Openbank and expects to make a decision within the next three to six months. Openbank would enable Santander to collect deposits anywhere in the US. (Santander also makes business and car loans outside of the branch footprint.)
Most customers prefer to bank at a place where they can walk into a branch and talk to someone if necessary. But the stats that Botin cite show an attitude shift under way. Openbank, as Botin puts it, offers the trust of a traditional bank, with the agility of a neobank.
Botin and Wennes are trying to mix things up in other ways, too. Santander is piloting a same-day loan program, for example, and its first US “work café” -- more of a shared work space than a traditional bank branch -- is about to open in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Plans are in the works for one in the Seaport.)
When Sovereign changed to Santander in 2013, there were jokes around town about trying to pronounce the foreign-sounding bank.
But if Botin has her way, Santander will become big enough in the US that people here will no longer wonder how to say the name.
Jon Chesto is a Globe reporter. Reach him at jon.chesto@globe.com and follow him on Twitter @jonchesto.
Trader Frank Masiello works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
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Stocks plunge: The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 1,000 points today amid a broad global markets sell-off as a surge in virus cases and a worrisome spread of the disease outside China sent investors running for safety. (AP)
Never again: Six months after a bribery scandal rocked Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeal, Mayor Marty Walsh today detailed reforms that he hopes will prevent such an incident from happening again. The Globe’s Tim Logan and Milton J. Valencia have more.
- The losses wiped out all of the gains for the year of the Dow and the benchmark S&P 500.
- “Stock markets around the world are beginning to price in what bond markets have been telling us for weeks -- that global growth is likely to be impacted in a meaningful way due to fears of the coronavirus,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance.
- The confluence of rising labor costs, intellectual property theft concerns that sparked a trade war, and now a viral infection that has restricted production and travel is making companies rethink their reliance on manufacturing in China. The Globe’s Shirley Leung has more.
- It’s unlikely companies will pull out of China altogether, but a shift to other countries has been under way and accelerated in 2018, when President Trump launched the trade war with China.
- The stocks of many Massachusetts companies were among those that took a big hit today, including: Epizyme (down 13 percent), Aspen Aerogels (down 10.8 percent), Ocular Therapeutix (down 9 percent), Karyopharm Therapeutics (down 8 percent), and iRobot (down 7.4 percent).
Opioid crisis: The parents of a 26-year-old California man who died of an opioid overdose have sued the Waltham manufacturer of Vivitrol, the medication he took to treat his addiction, in a case that highlights the controversies surrounding the response to the nation’s opioid crisis. The Globe’s Felice J. Freyer has more.
- At a City Hall news conference, Walsh signed an executive order that strengthens conflict-of-interest rules and financial disclosures for the seven-member board, which governs small- and mid-size development projects across the city.
- He also promised better online disclosure about projects before the ZBA, and easier tools for public comment, in the coming months.
- The move comes following the revelation last August that a veteran City Hall aide -- then-Boston Planning & Development staffer John Lynch -- took bribes from a developer to influence a project before the ZBA. Lynch pleaded guilty and was sentenced last month to 40 months in federal prison.
- Walsh acknowledged the new rules may make it harder to recruit members to the ZBA -- an unpaid board that sits for hours-long hearings every other Tuesday, plus evening meetings and site visits -- but he said they are necessary to clear up concerns about conflicts.
Barking for joy: Buoyed by the recent success of a global veterinary drug maker’s pioneering biological therapy for a skin condition in dogs, a new Boston pet medicine startup said it hoped to develop more biologic medications for the Jakes and Cocos of the world. The Globe’s Jonathan Saltzman has more.
Covering it up: About 19 miles east of Boston Harbor lies one of the nation’s largest offshore dumping sites of radioactive waste. Now, the federal government is trying to bury the barrels at least three feet deep with roughly 10 million tons of sediment dredged from a $340 million project to widen shipping channels in the harbor. The Globe’s David Abel has more.
Another chapter: The popular 26-year-old Barnes & Noble bookstore on Granite Street in Braintree reached a last-minute agreement with its landlord to avoid closing on Saturday. The Globe’s Stephanie Purifoy has more.
Eating in the time of coronavirus: Restaurants in Boston's Chinatown section are suffering steep drop-offs in business, anywhere from 30 to 80 percent, estimated Bob Luz, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. The Globe’s Devra First has more.
Fine art: Embattled former casino magnate Steve Wynn has paid around $105 million for a pair of Pablo Picasso paintings from the estate of Don Marron. (WSJ)
Harder than expected: In wake of layoffs in recent weeks at Wayfair, LogMeIn, Akamai and other Boston-area tech companies, hundreds of people have found themselves unexpectedly on the job market. (Boston Globe) Job applicants who recently came together for a pop-up job fair in wake of Wayfair’s layoffs have pointed out the hurdles they’re facing in the Boston tech market. (BBJ)
Survey says: An income-based MBTA fare option could attract tens of thousands of new rapid transit and bus riders and could prompt hundreds of thousands more trips on the RIDE paratransit service, according to an ongoing T study. (State House News Service)
Calming the waters: United Technologies Corp. and Waltham-based Raytheon Co. have offered concessions to address EU antitrust concerns about their plan to merge and create a $120 billion aerospace and defense giant. (Reuters)
Profitable port: New Bedford’s reign as the most valuable port in the country reached 19 straight years as NOAA released its latest report on US fisheries. (South Coast Today)
NATION/WORLD:
The Wrap:
Meghan Waldron is a freshman at Emerson College with progeria, one of the world's rarest diseases.
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Against all odds: Emerson College freshman Meghan Waldron has progeria, one of the world’s rarest diseases. The fatal genetic disorder causes premature aging.
Most children with progeria die of hardening of the arteries, a common killer of the elderly, at an average age of just 14.
Waldron has already lived considerably longer ― she turns 19 on March 1.
She credits lonafarnib, an experimental medication she’s taken since 2007 in clinical trials at Boston Children’s Hospital. A California drug firm called Eiger BioPharmaceuticals plans to complete its application for approval by March 31, with the hope of a favorable ruling from the Food and Drug Administration by year’s end. It would be the first approved drug for the ultra-rare disease.
“It’s been proven that it helps in extending life,” Waldron, a Deerfield native, said recently over hot chocolate at Caffe Nero near Emerson. “I’m almost 19. The life span is technically 14.”
A winsome smile brightened her face.
“Looks like it’s doing a good job.”
Emerson has made several accommodations for her. For example, the college provides a stool for her to rest her feet on when she sits at a desk in her four classes. The handle on her wardrobe in her dorm room was lowered so she could reach it more easily.
The Globe’s Jonathan Saltzman has more.
Goats are a pain and cheeky, chickens are easier. It you do need to secure their food from vermin and they themselves can be a source of disease. I wouldn’t do it unless I had space and time to keep them clean. Friends a little further out from us have chickens and they are a fair amount of work. If you have space, a secure shed for them at night and don’t mind cleaning chickenshit off everything go for it. They will eat the pests on your veg garden.
some brands do - Schweppes does I think. It’s about 20-30mg a glass. Quinine tablets aren’t about 200-300mg. Not enough to do much, but a G and T is always nice after a hard day’s apocalypse
Get a case of Mary Kitchen Sausage Hash. Hard to find in stores and more delicious than corned beef imo.Had a few emergency supplies already, but decided to go out and drop a Benjamin on a some extra cans of food and toilet paper and such. Surprisingly, considering the area of the country I'm in where insane hardcore preppers aren't exactly rare (US midwest), nobody seems to be panicking and no shelves are really empty. Also, whoever said Hormel Corned Hash, I now have a weird internet crush/hateboner for you because of what you've introduced me to.
With that and a bigass box of shotgun ammo I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
Come and get me Corona-chan, you filthy Asian whore!
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