Posted on 03/12/2020 11:06:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Two days after Iran declared its first cases of the novel coronavirus - in what would become one of the largest outbreaks of the illness outside of China - evidence of unusual activity appeared at a cemetery near where the infections emerged.
At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 80 miles south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as Feb. 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches - their lengths totaling 100 yards - were visible at the site from space.
According to expert analysis, video testimony and official statements, the graves were dug to accommodate the rising number of virus victims in Qom.
Iran, a nation of about 80 million people, has suffered a particularly deadly surge of coronavirus infections, including among its top leadership. Iran's Health Ministry says that 429 people have died of the virus, which causes the disease known as covid-19, and more than 10,000 have fallen ill. Among the dead are members of parliament, a former diplomat and even a senior adviser to the Supreme Leader. At least two dozen other officials, including a vice president, have been infected.
In Qom, the spiritual center of Iran's ruling Shiite clerics, more than 846 people have contracted the virus, officials say. Iran's government has not released an official death toll for Qom, however, where about 1.2 million people live. But videos, satellite images and other open-source data from the cemetery - a vast complex six miles north of the city center - suggest that the number of people struck down by the virus there is significantly higher than the official figure.
A senior imagery analyst at Maxar Technologies in Colorado said the size of the trenches and the speed with which they were excavated together mark a clear departure from past burial practices involving individual and family plots at the site. In addition to satellite imagery, videos posted on social media from the cemetery show the extended rows of graves at Behesht-e Masoumeh and say they are meant for coronavirus victims.
Good. Then they should be able to help my wife find her car keys.................
Nasty!
I must have missed that article. I was sure somebody was joking. This us what happens when Old World methods of worship are confronted by New Age Viruses.
I guess the Christian version would be preachers who give their sermon while a poisonous snake coils itself around the preachers’ neck.
They still do that in certain parts of Appalachia.................
No pics of anything instructive.
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I’ll bet it is. With the resolution I see on satellite images all the time (and those aren’t even the military ones) I can’t imagine how you wouldn’t be able to see it.
BRL says you can see golf balls, and that’s more consistent with the other things I’ve heard.
Yes, I just went to Google Earth and it is clearly visible.
Considering the state of their technology and preparedness, in Iran mortality is probably far higher and may resemble a smallpox epidemic of old by the end of it. In China you have to count in the prisoners who have had their lungs requisitioned and the doctors who have been virused because they spoke out of turn and the people starving after being walled up in their apartment buildings.
After WuHan appeared the mullahs urged the people to ignore it and to continue licking the idol in QOM because Allah would protect Moslems. Explosive in the malady was unknowingly and fanatically engineered.
License plates are “visible from space” to the military.
As in China. WuHanFlu is a convenient cover for clearing out the noise.
The Great Wall isn’t visible from space.
There aren’t many eyes in space. When I hear about something being ‘visible from space’, I assume they mean from a satellite, with optics, not oral commentary from some guy leaning out the window of the ISS. Obviously the space images we all see normally are satellite, and I’m sure that’s what the author meant here.
The Space Aliens won’t visit us..because they think our whole planet is full of communist and/or democrats.
I was going to ask how you know the aliens aren’t commies, but I guess if they’re smart enough and organized enough to get here from their home world, that’s pretty unlikely.
The original WaPo article shows the graves. Had to go there incognito to avoid the paywall, but they actually did dome reporting. Probably will get fired. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/
I believe you (I never checked the context) but why the hell would anyone care about that? Kind of like talking about how many thousands of miles some guy can walk with no mechanical assistance.
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