common in africa....idiots seem to plague the US

I'm hearing all kinds of crazy things. Some have happened before but because most people ignored history they think anything that is happening now has never happened before.

There's an old saying in Africa. ''When the rains don't come they bribg drought and famine. When the rains do come they bribg locusts abd famine. ''

Locusts in Africa are pretty much a common thing. Always have been.

Yes a colleagues boyfriend sent this to me today. He knows I'm an Atheist.

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Yeah, like the size of your hand! The first I saw of it was about the same time I was seeing the first covid coverage, about mid feb. People were frying them and eating them! Talk about lemons into When you have wheat, eat bread. When a protein eats your bread, eat the protein.

There has always been plaques of locusts. Some come around every so many years, here or in Africa. Jesus also said "there shall be wars and rumors of wars." I might as well tell you that "sometimes it will rain and sometimes it will not." Knowledge is astounding!

Let a pandemic come along and people go nuts. As it happens we see that many people were nuts all along.

This may seem a dumb question to the knowledgeable, but are locusts edible? Apparently insects are consumed in some parts of the world. Looks like catching huge quantities of the critters would be feasible. Help with the famine...

Plagues, pandemic, climate change, wars, Donald Trump; how many signs for an apocalypse are there supposed to be?

I heard about the locust thing a couple of weeks ago.
There's always going to be something for the believers to point to as "evidence" that their bullshit is true.

Yeah, locusts have always been a Huge problem here in Connecticut.....

Christians have been saying it's the end times for decades (if not centuries).

As for the locusts; I heard about that several weeks ago. They have a 17yr cycle where they essentially gestate in the ground and then come up all at once. It's a natural occurrence. devastating, yes, but natural.

Its cyclical. Been that way since the beginning of stupidity.

I think the corona virus drowned out the locust in Africa news in the us.

I've read enough dystopian sci-fi and evolutionary dead ends to know that "end times" could come any time for humanity. The earth and life will go on in one form or another. Has nothing to do with their magical sky being. I blame it on Cthulu, never liked that guy...

It's linked to the Indian Ocean oscillation - like the Australian bushfires. The West of Australia gets dry, the east coast of Africa gets wet. Australia catches fire, East Africa gets plagues of locusts.

I don't hear any of this stuff, but I also don't interact with any evangelicals.

Locusts, yes. When one lives in a fairy tale any sort of shit can be THE signal.

Locust have been covering vast Areas for a long every so many years seen a documentary about them. Then there are the army ants that sweep through areas killing everything in their path.

Who else is tired of the death cults waiting for some imaginary dead person to come back and take them to imaginary heaven? They call it the end of days. I prefer to use facts and what science has proven.

Yes, its been going on for a while. The locusts, not quarter-wits spouting god bothering nonsense.

The end times are always here because of X, Y, and Z.

Just imagine what it'll be like if this comet puts on a show - a sign from heaven! [earthsky.org]

It was widely reported here in Europe. Obviously we're quite ungodly this side of the Atlantic, though, so maybe our media were happy to cover it.

One has to search out independent press or media. Al Jezera, BBC, VICE, Mother Jones, Then there are Africa reports on CNBC on the weekend. C-SPAN. There are also reports in news print such as NY Times, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast (aka Newsweek). Seek & ye shall find.

There is a pretty big Locust outbreak in East Africa at the moment, one of the worst ever recorded in the region (though not as large as some historic outbreaks in other parts of the world, including North America). The reaction of End-Times enthusiasts to this is predictable, though not enlightening. For real entertainment, find an article in a West African news source on the subject, then scroll down to the comments section, where people will be genuinely surprised that Locusts are seen as a plague, and not a free source of protein.