Seongnam Church Spreads COVID-19 to Followers Believing Spraying Saltwater Kills Coronavirus
This has to be the stupidest way we have seen the coronavirus spread in South Korea:
A new cluster of coronavirus has emerged at a church in South Korea after members used a saltwater spray — which they believed prevented the spread of the virus — but used the same spray bottle on members without properly disinfecting the nozzle, health officials acknowledged Monday.
Officials in the city of Seongnam, located in the Gyeonggi Province south of Seoul, said 40 additional members of the River of Grace Community Church have tested positive for COVID-19 after six members, including the pastor and his wife, were confirmed in the past week to have the virus.
All of those infected may have attended the same service on March 8, according to the Yonhap News Agency. (……..)
“This made it inevitable for the virus to spread,” he added. “They did so out of the false belief that saltwater kills the virus.”
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You can read more at the link, but I don’t know what is worse, the minister believing that salt water kills COVID-19 or all the followers blindly following his instructions to use the spray bottle on each other?
You would think someone in the congregation would think this is idiotic.
Sounds like another Shinchonji church.
I doubt the virus was carried in the salt water spray. More likely it was carried in the air (outside the spray).
Oh, just reading further “Video images released from the protestant church show a church member sticking the nozzle of the spray bottle into several church members.”
Okay, that’ll do it. It’s the nozzle, not the salt water.
There are a lot of well-meaning and yet absolutely dangerous people out there. Like a certain politician who advised people to buy shotguns and fire them into the air or through their front doors…
After going to many different churches of many different denominations since Ike lived in the White House, I can truthfully say I’ve seen the equivalent–physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
What they were doing does not appear to be Bible-based, so maybe based on a misunderstanding of why nurses flush out IVs with salt water…
Religious people and their superstitions…
Flyingsword, now do Wuhan…