I’d say we should all form our own opinion and do what seems right to us. I wore a mask when I went grocery shopping early on. I thought that there was some benefit to the white hats and/or disadvantage to the black hats.
Last week when I went out, I refused to wear a mask. I was the only person in the grocery store without one. The store had a signs saying “wear a mask”. No one stopped me. No one questioned me. I think I got one dirty look, but I strongly suspect most of the other shoppers were “with me”.
I plan to exercise my constitutional right to freedom.
I contacted the pastor of my church to say I’m happy to attend if they choose to open. From what I can tell, the question of if/when to open is being discussed. The question seems to be whether opening is what God wants. Is staying closed part of “render unto Caesar”? Or is it denying our faith? Or something else entirely?
Most conservative people I know are thinking along similar lines and struggling to make a good decision. Only one person I know is making decisions based on “cowering in fear” and blind obedience to our “government masters”.
I needed some stuff so put on my cheap dust mask and went into Walmart. They’ve all got employees at the entrance who won’t let you without one, so it’s not the hill to die on here in IL. So Herr Governor and Dick Tator Jimmy “Fatboi” Prickster has decreed and so mote it be. He did put out some new guidelines, breaking the state into 11 “health regions” and laying out a five-phase stepwise approach that isn’t as bad as I expected, at least it recognizes the whole state isn’t Chitcago. Pretty much based on Trump’s recommendations.
Now if we could just find a way to build a wall around regions 7 thru 11 and make it a different state.
“ Is staying closed part of “render unto Caesar”? Or is it denying our faith? Or something else entirely?”
This comes to mind...
“Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Hebrews 10:25
I just realized these people don’t believe in death. They’ve never seen it so they behave as if it doesn’t exist. All a play act. They can afford to be atheists because they haven’t been surrounded by death their entire lives, so they don’t understand death is a part of life. I worry there is going to be a regression to the mean coming, then they’ll have to believe or go mad. The pandemic was like an earthquake, the economic depression will be the ensuing tsunami. Or you could say the pandemic is like seeing all the water get sucked back out to sea. . .