Need a similar one for walking the wrong way is a grocery store aisle. :-)
Posted on 05/19/2020 5:10:03 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
Oregon courts have done the same as Wisconsin courts and struck down their stay at home order.
Texas has permitted more businesses to open - but it is not enough as restrictions have been put in place.
CV cases have just plummeted in some states, especially NJ.
I worry about kids’ sports...many are still shut down. Sport builds children’s character and help make them healthy. It is maddening that restrictions on those haven’t been eliminated.
Are there any Catholic Churches in the US that have removed masks and social distancing?
If a person battled through the Rona, can he get it again? There is evidence of such from the Roosevelt.
If a vaxx is developed through the usual protocols, distributing it will cause another outbreak.
If I knew catching and surviving the rona would give permanent immunity, I wouldn’t avoid it. Short of going through boot camp, I’m about as healthy as I can hope for so my odds are better than 99%
I don't wish ill will on anybody. That said, it seems to be monkey see, monkey do with many of these institutions of higher learning. It is like outsourcing the supply chain. Once somebody gains a big advantage everybody else follows..
Catholic Churches are gutless and Liberal as it gets, I can say this I am Catholic!!
Need a similar one for walking the wrong way is a grocery store aisle. :-)
See post 28. Get that message on a card and show it to the first mask Nazi.
Mebbe claim it is against your religion.
[Sidebar] I worked as a contract programmer in a Macon, GA plant. Someone was always coming around peddling something. One week it was a blood drive, and it was funny to hear all the lame excuses why one didn't want to donate. They came to me and I said it was against my religion. Man, they folded like a card table, INSTANTLY.
['Nother sidebar] Those blood drives were generic. At another plant, they came around looking for donors because one guy's wife had leukemia. I had no problem donating to that.
Here is a letter the president of my church wrote re: the Ill governor
Fifth Week of Easter, A.D. 2020 May 14, 2020
The Honorable William P. Barr U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Grace and peace be yours in Christ.
Caesar Claims Too Much
We write briefly to call your attention to the “Restore Illinois” plan of the honorable Governor
J. B. Pritzker. We wholeheartedly support the governor in his deep desire to reduce the effects of COVID-19 and do not in any way question his motives.
Several aspects of the plan, however, appear unreasonable. Worse, they appear to us to fail the “least restrictive means” test for government limitations on First Amendment rights in times of emergency.
Our church body, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, has nearly 500 congregations and 115 schools in Illinois. We have 6,000 congregations nationally, including parishes in every state, with a combined membership of nearly 2 million. Our people have diverse experiences and views on both COVID-19 and the local and national response. We are not a hierarchical church body, and we do not mandate local responses to the virus. We have and will continue to urge our congregations to follow local guidelines. We trust our pastors and people to act with great responsibility (caring for themselves and their neighbors) and fidelity to both the Holy Scriptures and our Lutheran Confession of faith. And they are doing so, even as they care for the sick, dying and bereaved. We thank you for recognizing the essential nature of pastoral care.
I refer you to the attached “Lutheran Plea” to Governor Pritzker, written by the three regional leaders of our church body in Illinois. We have particular concerns. “Phase 4” of the Illinois reopening plan allows an increase from 10 to 50 people in gatherings of various kinds, but appears to treat churches differently from other institutions with similar gatherings. Furthermore, the limit of 50 people is in place until “Phase 5,” when there is “a vaccine, or highly effective treatment widely available or the elimination of any new
This is unreasonable and an unnecessary restriction of First Amendment rights for us and for all people who gather for worship while respecting local health guidelines. This provision negatively affects our churches and schools and even threatens closure for some. It will threaten our mission to share the free forgiveness of sins in Christ with our own membership and with those in need of Christ’s love outside our fellowship. It will threaten our ability to provide parochial grade school and high school education, and our ability to provide consolation, comfort and hope to thousands upon thousands in Illinois. In short, it threatens the “free exercise” clause of the First Amendment and begs the “strict scrutiny” principle to be applied.
We respect government as a necessary gift of God (Romans 13). We pray for you and all national and local government leaders (1 Timothy 2:2), including the governor of Illinois. We believe that just as St. Paul appealed to Caesar (Acts 25:11) when his rights as a Roman citizen were violated, it is God-pleasing to appeal to the Department of Justice to scrutinize the plans of the governor of Illinois with respect to the provisions of the First Amendment. We are conscience-bound to follow the directive of Christ, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s.” But we shall also render “unto God what is God’s” (Matthew 22:21). “Caesar” is claiming too much in this case.
Sincerely,
Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, President The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
I’ve held one of those since it was first presented about a month ago.
RE: blood drives. I just tell them the truth, I’m on 4 long-term blood meds so I’m dairy-queened.
Speaking of lockdowns...
I said I wouldn’t wear a mask but I might be forced to wear one for my daughter’s first communion at church. I guess my Flubro principles only go so far. I am hoping the church relaxes this requirement before the event next month.
Our company worked through the whole thing (construction - usually small residential jobs). We remained open to the public. We did not wear masks. And we did a crappy job of social distancing. Business was booming.
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