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Andy823

(11,495 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 10:35 PM Mar 2020

Something to think about to avoid the Coronavirus.

One way this virus can really spread is by people coming to your door to talk about religion with you. There are a couple of groups that do this on a daily basis. They want to talk to you, and push their literature in order to convert and save you.

What you need to remember is that they have been going door to door shaking hands, passing out literature that has been handled by numerous people. These same groups will also be going to their place of worship, and some of them will be going to their conventions all over the U.S.A. and around the world.

I am not against religion, but I did belong to one of these groups years ago, and I know that the most important thing for them is getting out, especially on weekends, to push their beliefs, and colds, and flu symptoms will not stop them. I was always amazed and how many of them would go to the the Hall every weekend no matter how sick they were.

Think about this before you open your door, and ask the kindly to not come back until the danger of this virus is taken care of. I have family members that are still in one of these groups, and I fear for them, but they won't stop unless their governing body tells them to.

Keep safe.

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Something to think about to avoid the Coronavirus. (Original Post) Andy823 Mar 2020 OP
Go to the door wearing a Burqa hlthe2b Mar 2020 #1
Kick. nt Andy823 Mar 2020 #2
Or just don't answer the door to people you're not expecting? Nature Man Mar 2020 #3
My neighbor hung a sign on their door... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #4
Going to the door because someone knocks HAB911 Mar 2020 #5
I used to cut these people off when TrishaJ Mar 2020 #6
Do people still open the door for these people? I thought we all just hid with the lights off like cbdo2007 Mar 2020 #7

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
4. My neighbor hung a sign on their door...
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 10:03 AM
Mar 2020

DUE TO CURRENT EPIDEMIC
NOT ANSWERING DOOR

CALL...then lists two phone numbers.



Oh, and BTW, I'm against religion.

HAB911

(8,904 posts)
5. Going to the door because someone knocks
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 10:07 AM
Mar 2020

is like answering the phone just because you have one. Don't do it.

TrishaJ

(798 posts)
6. I used to cut these people off when
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:01 AM
Mar 2020

they headed up the driveway toward the door. Met them outside and told them to turn around; no one here is interested in being "saved."

cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)
7. Do people still open the door for these people? I thought we all just hid with the lights off like
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:13 AM
Mar 2020

I do.

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