Bizarre claim Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have arrived


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CORONAVIRUS has infected more than 94,000 people around the globe, leading many to bizarrely claim COVID-19 was predicted by the Bible. Why are people claiming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have arrived?
By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY
PUBLISHED: 15:46, Wed, Mar 4, 2020
UPDATED: 17:44, Wed, Mar 4, 2020
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The world is in the grips of a coronavirus epidemic unlike anything seen since the outbreak of SARS in 2002. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 94,214 people since last December and killed at least 3,214.

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The virus, which first appeared in China’s Hubei Province, is now rapidly spreading through Europe and the Middle East at alarming rates.

Large outbreaks of COVID-19 in Italy, Iran and South Korea have prompted many to link the epidemic to biblical prophecies of the end times.


Militant Christians and biblical hardliners have flooded social media with claims the coronavirus is harbinger of the Apocalypse.

John Angelbeck tweeted: “Coronavirus? Hurricane Katrina? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, Pal.

“Just read the Book of Revelation. Repent of your sins before it’s too late.

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“I do care about you (and those who think like you do. And those who don’t)”

Another Twitter user said: “‘Beginning of Sorrows’ – Matthew 24:3-8’

“Australian Wildfires… Coronavirus… earthquakes in odd places…increased rage/murders worldwide … massive hunger increases…

“And there are those that laugh at the Book of Revelation… #jesusiscoming”

But where are these outrageous claims about biblical prophecy coming from?

Many Christians believe the end of the world was prophesied in the last chapters of the Bible, the Book of Revelation.

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The Book of Revelation details the cataclysmic events that will unfold before the Second Coming of Christ.

One of these events will be the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of which is believed to be represented by the coronavirus.

The Four Horsemen are typically represented as Death, War, Famine and Pestilence or Plague.

Evangelists Gerald Flurry and Wayne Turgeon of The Trumpet said: “We have already examined the first three horsemen: The first is religious deception, next is war, then famine.

“With the fourth, pestilence, these horsemen represent the final, end-time culmination of the most traumatic problems endured by a rebellious mankind.

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“They picture one of the most ominous scenarios ever. It is imperative that each of us takes heed while there is still time.”

Conspiracy theorists have claimed online the coronavirus represents the Pale Horse and its rider.

Charity Mukuba tweeted: “The rider of this pale horse has been released on earth today.

“We can already see the plagues of LOCUSTS and pestilences like CORONAVIRUS that have brought death. Locusts have brought famine #RepentAndPrepare”

John the Apostle wrote in Revelation 6: “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

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“And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

There is however no evidence to suggest the coronavirus is in any way a biblical portent of doom.

Instead, COVID-19 is triggered by a pathogen belonging to a family of viruses responsible for past epidemics.

Between 2002 and 2003, for instance, a coronavirus strain infected more than 8,000 people with SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Then in 2012, a different strain of coronavirus was responsible for the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome or MERS.

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Students at Yeshiva University’s Washington Heights campus were rattled Wednesday morning by news that an undergrad has been confirmed to have the coronavirus.

“I am a little bit worried. I’m just trying to stay off campus as much as possible,” a 23-year-old student who identified himself only as Noah told The Post.

“I’m not sure there is a plan in place, but they canceled classes today. I think it’s an appropriate precaution,” he added.

Adam Bressler, 22, a pre-med biology student, said the “story is unfolding.”

“We are getting a lot of updates. I had a midterm today but it’s been pushed until Monday,” he said.

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Another student at the Wilf campus on West 185th Street said the dean had made an announcement that “the campus is safe and no one should be worried about transmission, but they canceled classes so no one feels uncomfortable sitting in classes.”

A fourth student said the ailing undergraduate “said he was just experiencing cold symptoms. He is a really mild case. He wanted people to focus on his father,” referring to Midtown attorney Lawrence Garbuz, 50, who is hospitalized in Manhattan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier Wednesday announced that Garbuz’s son, 14-year-old daughter, wife and neighbor have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Yeshiva announced that it canceled all classes at the Wilf campus.

Two people who had contact with the student also were taken to Bellevue Hospital for testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.

One male student wearing a mask and hood was seen being escorted by two EMTs in protective gear to an FDNY ambulance.

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Discovery of high plutonium levels causes major setback in Denver highway project | OutThere Colorado

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BY The Associated Press

February 27, 2020

DENVER (AP) — A planned highway that would complete a belt route around the Denver area has seen a major setback after a city pulled out over elevated plutonium levels found in soil along the route near a former nuclear weapons plant.

The Broomfield City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to withdraw from the $250 million project.

State officials said in August that a soil test found plutonium levels five times higher than the cleanup standard, but a second test found much lower levels.

“After that soil sample, I think it would be irresponsible to move forward with this alignment,” Councilman William Lindstedt said.

Broomfield, Jefferson County and Arvada have been part of the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority since it was formed in 2008. The highway project would run from Arvada and along the eastern border of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge to Broomfield, where motorists could connect with the existing Northwest Parkway.

The Rocky Flats plant made plutonium triggers for nuclear warheads from 1952 until 1989. Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge was created on the former buffer zone around the perimeter of the site. The center of the site, where the plutonium is handled, is closed to the public.

The date of Broomfield’s exit from the project is unclear because the council must notify the board of the highway authority of its decision.

“If approved by the Broomfield council, the request will be considered by the authority members pursuant to negotiation under the terms of the authority’s establishing contract,” authority Executive Director Bill Ray told The Denver Post.

He didn’t say how the project will go forward without Broomfield’s participation.

UPDATE: (4:55 PM MT) a posted travel alert has stated this closure is already in place.

According to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), a full closure of Kenosha Pass along US 285 will take effect from 8:30 PM Wednesday until 5:00 AM Thursday (February 26-27) for snow removal operations. The planned closure will be in place between mile marker 184 near Fairplay and mile marker 203 just west of Grant.

Offering Denverites headed to the mountains an alternative to I-70, US 285 connects Lakewood to Fairplay, continuing onward to Buena Vista and beyond.

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Check CDOT’s Facebook, Twitter (@coloradodot) or cotrip.org for closures and delays on highways and roads across Colorado.

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Super Secret Perovskite Solar Cell Company Bursts Out Of Stealth Mode
February 29th, 2020 by Tina Casey

For the past six years, a major US oil and gas holding company has been collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Lab on new breakthrough perovskite solar cell research. What a twist! The effort has been conducted through a relatively new division of the firm and it hasn’t attracted much attention, except that earlier this month they finally let something slip on the newswires and now the cat’s out of the bag.

HPT has collaborated with NREL on perovskite ink for solar cells, like this one developed by NREL researcher David Moore (Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL).

Oil Company Hearts Perovskite Solar Cells
The holding company in question is Hunt Consolidated, Inc., parent of the 80-year-old privately held global oil and gas leader Hunt Oil and of a somewhat lesser known entity called Hunt Perovskite Technologies.

So, why has a major fossil fuel company been collaborating with NREL on cutting edge research leading to the next generation of low cost solar cells?

After all, other global oil and gas stakeholders are venturing into renewable energy. However, they are mainly focused on market-proven technologies that don’t disrupt their fossil fuel business, at least not for the time being.

Hunt’s new perovskite research is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. It could have a profound, widespread impact on the energy marketplace and accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

That’s because perovskite technology can push down solar costs far below today’s costs. Perovskite solar cells are also lighter and more flexible, which means they have a greater range of application.

For a bonus, perovskite solar cells can be “printed” with a relatively conventional high-volume manufacturing process.

Perovskite solar cells are only just beginning to edge out of the laboratory, now that researchers have finally worked out the kinks. Once they hit the shelves, they will kick the global solar market into a whole new level of activity.

As for why Hunt, last week Forbes took a crack at the mystery and noted that the current head of the family business, Hunter L. Hunt, spent the past 10 years creating and then spinning off a new high voltage power line company.

That venture, along with the company’s investment arm Hunt Energy Enterprises, indicates that Hunt Oil is looking more holistically at new high tech opportunities in the energy market aside from just digging up stuff out of the ground.

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The main challenge with perovskite as a solar cell material is durability, and researchers have been trying various formulas to improve durability without sacrificing too much solar conversion efficiency.

Hunt Perovskite Technologies launched in 2013 with a focus on the perovskite durability problem, as a corporate partner of NREL.

The work came to fruition late last year, when Hunt was able to demonstrate an ink-based manufacturing process for its new solar cell, to the satisfaction of the International Electrotechnical Commission. According to Hunt, the new solar cell exceeds IEC standards for temperature, humidity, white light and ultraviolet stress while achieving a fairly impressive solar conversion efficiency of 18%.

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Legacy companies like Hunt are not going to shed their fossil fuel interests willy-nilly, but in a press statement Hunter Hunt indicated that his family business is prepping for change.

“We strategically chose to develop perovskite solar several years ago; we envisioned its strategic importance as an innovative new energy technology in addressing the world’s energy needs for the future, as well playing a part in combating climate change,” he said. “As part of the global energy transition that is occurring, our solar team is hoping to make a meaningful contribution.”

Hunt Perovskite Technologies also garnered an endorsement from NREL for its role in shepherding disruptive solar technology out of the lab.

The lab’s senior scientist on its Perovskite and Hybrid Solar Cells Team, Joe Berry, noted that the company has been instrumental in its efforts to launch new clean technology over the “Valley of Death” that often separates high risk, high reward research from commercial application.

“We look forward to continued collaboration with our industry partners as we seek to develop and, ultimately, deploy these promising technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace,” he said.

CleanTechnica is reaching out to NREL for more details about the lab’s collaborative work with Hunt, so stay tuned for more on that.

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New cases in China continued to decline, according to its latest numbers as of March 2, which showed 125 new confirmed cases, and 31 more deaths.
As cases spread across other continents, new cases in China are falling, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing in Geneva.

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9:15 am: South Korea reports jump of 600 new cases
New cases in South Korea surged by 600 as of Tuesday morning, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It also reported six more deaths, bringing the death toll to 28 fatalities for the country. The total number of cases in the country is now 4,812. — Tan

9:00 am: Twitter ‘strongly encourages’ all employees to work from home
Twitter said that starting March 2, it is "strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home if they’re able."

"Our goal is to lower the probability of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus for us — and the world around us," it wrote in an update.

"We are working to make sure internal meetings, all hands, and other important tasks are optimized for remote participation. We recognize that working from home is not ideal for some job functions. For those employees who prefer or need to come into the offices, they will remain open for business," the social media firm said.

Working from home for its employees in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea offices will be mandatory, however, it said. — Tan

8:00 am: China reports 125 new cases, 31 more deaths
New cases in China continued to decline, according to its latest numbers as of March 2, which showed 125 new confirmed cases, and 31 more deaths. The country reported 202 new cases for March 1, and 573 new cases for Feb. 29, according to data from the National Health Commission.

All the additional fatalities in the latest update were from the epicenter of Hubei. Of the new cases, 114 were in Hubei. That brings China’s total to 80,151 cases, and 2,943 deaths. — Tan

7:50 am: WHO says the epidemics spreading outside China are of ‘greatest concern’
As cases spread across other continents, new cases in China are falling, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing in Geneva.

Outside China, the total number of cases topped 8,739 across 61 countries, including 127 deaths, according to WHO data. About 81% of cases outside China are from four countries, he added.

"The epidemics in the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan are our greatest concern," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. — Lovelace, Higgins-Dunn

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