Posted on 02/27/2020 12:19:45 PM PST by C19fan
Picture the following sacred but unhygienic scene: Pilgrims from a dozen countries converge on one small city. They stay in cramped hotels, using communal toilets and eating meals together. For their main ritual, they converge on the tomb of a woman, the sister of a holy man, and as they get closer, they feel with rising intensity grief over her death and the deaths of her kin. The grief is a commandment: Each tear, according to one tradition, will be transformed in the afterlife into a pearl, and an angel will compensate them for their tears with a bucket of pearls that will be signs of their devotion when they arrive at the gate of paradise. But for now the bodily fluids are flowing, wiped away occasionally by bare hands, and the crowd is getting denser. A metal cage surrounds the tomb itself, and when the weeping pilgrims reach it, they interlace their fingers with its bars, and many press their face against it, fogging up the shiny metal with their breath. Some linger for minutes, some for seconds. In a single day, many thousands pass through the same cramped spacebreathing the same air, touching the same surfaces, trading new and exotic diseases.
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Mecca has 1,535,000 people living there all year round. The world's Muslims visit only during the very short time of the Hajj. There would be no reason to CLOSE DOWN the entire city FIVE months before the Hajj.
Hey - they ran out of passenger planes to shoot down, so this is their fall-back position.
Germ warfare. The last card in the deck.
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yup.
get up all loaded up with corono19 & send um to EU & USA
bio bombs
As a Ha Ha Joke, let the enemy die because it is such a bad decision, then I agree, let them be idiots.
I’ve heard that the sovereign cure is applying tobacco smoke to the affected orifice...
The Saudi’s have stopped the Hajj. Not allowing any foreigners to Mecca or Medina.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-saudi-arabia-bans-religious-21585857
Some 95% of the human woe in this world is in some way self-induced.
This is an overblown left leading agenda. Let me repeat....
2019-2020 US flu season statistics (so far):
29,000,000/280,000/16,000/200
Cases/hospitalized/deaths/children deaths
You’re right.
Haha - them and every other country in the world.
Reads like preparation for a night on the town in San Francisco.
“They are going to spread the disease through out the Near East and Central Asia.”
And fly infected people to America.
Let’s see, in the last couple of months Iran has been hit by floods, earthquakes, locusts, and now the Corona virus. And it is all happening just before Purim, the holiday that celebrates the Jews defeating an Iranian anti-Semite. Coincidence?
Didn’t the Saudi’s just block everybody?
Sounds like a scary trip for a reporter. After one dodges the Corona virus the entire trip they then can enjoy their flight out of Iran and hope that the air defense network is asleep.
Not the city, the holy sight with the meteorite they worship in the big black box they circle around.
This sounds like the Health Minister in Indonesia saying that they have been spared the virus because they are praying to Allah. And they are praying really hard.
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“God has been known to allow plagues to serve His purpose, eh, Pharoah?”
Xi sets himself above the Lord at the end of Sept 2019, and within weeks a regime threatening plague starts.
Pray for the Christians of China, and for President Trump !
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