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(eschatology) Worst swarms of locusts in decades + Why do we resist & dread masks?

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Why are we so resistant to masks? (end of days hysteria)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020...masks.html

EXCERPT: . . . a mask, which seemed like overkill a few days ago, now looks like just the right amount. Yet some are still reluctant to wear a mask [...] In California we are used to wearing masks ... a defense against the smoke and ash of what has become, horrifically, an annual fire season. In the sepia-toned atmosphere that follows a massive fire, the face mask was, literally, a breath of fresh air. Now the mask is a wearable symbol of a world faced with biblical threats careening between fire and pestilence toward the end of days. Perhaps this unavoidable association with crisis explains some of the aversion...

[...] Masks worn as protection against disease in Renaissance-era Europe also symbolized the threat of contagion: The long, downturned bird’s beak of the iconic plague doctor’s mask was thought to filter out toxic vapors, but the dramatic, grotesque mask also transformed the doctor’s body into something sinister and inhuman, a harbinger of suffering and death... (MORE - details)



Locusts swarm East Africa, Middle East with worst plague in decades (end of days hysteria)
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilder...ue-decades

INTRO: Clouds of locusts are swarming from East Africa to the Persian Gulf in historic numbers, forming a potentially catastrophic plague unlike anything some areas have seen in generations. The insatiable insects, which seem to be capitalizing on a mix of environmental conditions favored by climate change, pose a fast-growing threat to farmers and food availability across the region.

"The current situation in East Africa remains extremely alarming as hopper bands and an increasing number of new swarms form in northern and central Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia," the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in an April 8 update. "This represents an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods because it coincides with the beginning of the long rains and the planting season."

The outbreak is now being tracked across more than a dozen countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, according to the FAO. It’s reportedly the worst locust infestation U.N. officials have seen in at least 25 years.

The crisis began in late 2019 and swelled to a historic scale in early 2020, but now an even larger second wave has begun, the Associated Press reported April 10. Reportedly 20 times the size of the first wave, this is not only threatening food security and economic stability, but also overshadowing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic in some rural areas, the AP reports.

Locusts are what "everyone is talking about," one farmer in Uganda tells the AP. "Once they land in your garden they do total destruction. Some people will even tell you that the locusts are more destructive than the coronavirus. There are even some who don't believe that the virus will reach here." (MORE)
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