Posted on 06/18/2024 9:24:18 PM PDT by Cronos
Same. Since those halcyon days, Lyme disease and Rheumatoid arthritis have done their damage.
Relatives scoured hospitals and pleaded online for news, fearing the worst after temperatures hit 51.8 degrees Celsius (125 Fahrenheit) in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, on Monday.
About 1.8 million people from all over the world, many old and infirm, took part in the days-long, mostly outdoor pilgrimage, held this year during the oven-like Saudi summer.
An Arab diplomat told AFP that deaths among Egyptians alone had jumped to “at least 600”, from more than 300 a day earlier, mostly from the unforgiving heat.
That figure brought the total reported dead so far to 922, according to an AFP tally of figures released by various countries.
Well, they died doing what their religion told them was their duty.
“Imagine the stench of all those overheated savages”
Having had a reeking to high heaven, prayer-carpet toting man sit next to me an entire flight after he boarded on my flight’s enroute stop in Detroit, I have no trouble whatsoever remembering that horrendous stench and thinking about the effect of that stench multiplied by 550. Me thinks that alone could knock out a crowd. \
They are acclimated to the strong smells that we in the West are not used to.
Sheena was a man ...
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