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DC Denies ‘COVID-Immune Section’ For Fully Vaccinated Parishioners At Capitol Hill Baptist Church
Dcist ^ | 04/17/2021 | Elliot C. Williams

Posted on 04/17/2021 10:51:35 AM PDT by aimhigh

The D.C. government has denied a pastor’s request to instate a “COVID-immune section” for fully vaccinated parishioners at Capitol Hill Baptist Church — a church that has been going back and forth with the city over reopening restrictions throughout the pandemic.

The church proposed a section of 328 seats in its West Hall that wouldn’t have any social distancing or mask requirements, but D.C. officials denied the request on Wednesday after reviewing DC Health and Centers for Disease Control guidelines.

Christopher Rodriguez, director of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, wrote a letter to Associate Pastor Jamie Dunlop citing the most recent CDC guidance, which allows fully vaccinated people to meet indoors with each other “in [a] home or private setting” without social distancing or masks. Rodriguez said that the COVID-immune seating section would not allow for social distancing in a public setting that includes unvaccinated people from multiple households. The letter was first reported by Barred In DC.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: church; covid; vaccinated; vaccine
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1 posted on 04/17/2021 10:51:35 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

Groveling before Governors is how rights erode into privileges.

Pastor made a mistake by “asking”.


2 posted on 04/17/2021 10:54:25 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: aimhigh

Why is it that you need a mask to enter a restaurant and walk to your seat but can take it off when you sit down? The COVID virus can’t see you sitting down?


3 posted on 04/17/2021 10:55:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: aimhigh

Eff the “request”; just do it. Make the oppressors come in to shut you down, so they have to reveal their true selves.


4 posted on 04/17/2021 10:56:15 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: aimhigh

Have you all seen the meme comparing a crowded airplane then an empty church? This is NOT about Covid.
Evil is fighting to control all our lives!.


5 posted on 04/17/2021 10:56:20 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: aimhigh

When will Churches fight back against the facists?

Based on watching weak-kneed compliance after a year plus I’d guess never.


6 posted on 04/17/2021 10:56:52 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: aimhigh

Keep dem Christians locked straight up Ms.Mayor!


7 posted on 04/17/2021 11:04:46 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: aimhigh

It’s not about public health.
It’s about power and their hatred of freedom, hatred of God, and hatred of all human life.


8 posted on 04/17/2021 11:13:11 AM PDT by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: aimhigh
The D.C. government has denied a pastor’s request

Stop right there. Since when does any American ask government for permission to exercise their natural, God-given rights? I have to believe that most people in America are not taught and do not understand the differences between natural law as the underpinning of our constitutional rights and positive law. It is just another failure of government schools and establishment institutions, including churches.

9 posted on 04/17/2021 11:25:01 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SkyDancer
Why is it that you need a mask to enter a restaurant and walk to your seat but can take it off when you sit down? The COVID virus can’t see you sitting down?

Because as you walk in with your mouth and nose higher than the tables with seated people and food on the table, the droplets from you have a high chance to being inhaled or eaten by the seated people.

Once you are seated, there is a lower chance of this happening.

10 posted on 04/17/2021 11:25:32 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: Mogger

Then what’s with all these other places where you need a mask no matter what? Then too, those droplets due to gravity will settle on you and the table you’re at.


11 posted on 04/17/2021 11:33:46 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: Mogger

‘Because as you walk in with your mouth and nose higher than the tables with seated people and food on the table, the droplets from you have a high chance to being inhaled or eaten by the seated people.’

please tell me you’re joking; because if you’re not, I see why we’re still grovelling to government beaureaucrats a year and a half out...


12 posted on 04/17/2021 11:34:34 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Mogger

You really believe that, then report to the train station in the morning with 3 changes of clothing and food for 2 days.

You will be relocated to a safe area. Dress warmly.

http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=242099

“And what do we have here now in a professional medical journal?

In close range situations, people are much more likely to be exposed to the virus by inhaling it than by having it fly through the air in large droplets to land on their eyes, nostrils, or lips.

In other words your mask is worthless since said aerosols go right through any gap, never mind that with the exception of an N95 (which is legally a respirator, not a mask) the pores in the material are 10x or more larger than the aerosol and thus are exactly identical to trying to stop mosquitoes with a chain link fence, which I pointed out nearly a year ago. We knew this was fact after the German meatpacking plant outbreak”

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n913

Covid-19 has redefined airborne transmission


13 posted on 04/17/2021 11:43:08 AM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa paalle)
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To: Mogger

The virus is airborne like measles virus. It doesn’t matter whether you’re sitting or standing. It depends on how many viruses are floating in the air. Also, masks are a joke. So are the vaccinations.
Most people are already immune. The death rate for covid is no worse than the flu now.


14 posted on 04/17/2021 11:44:36 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Mogger

You made that up, right? (Didn’t see a /s/.)


15 posted on 04/17/2021 11:44:49 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16)
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To: Polynikes

Chew on this:

There is a lot of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily by fecal to oral transmission.

Let that sink in.

Remember about a year ago when there were a few quickly buried stories about communities in the New England states that were going to start testing sewerage for COVID?

Let that sink in.

Now consider this: In many States (Pennsylvania and Ohio for sure) the mask mandates are explicit that those in restaurants MUST wear a mask INTO THE RESTROOM where of course that cloth will absorb all toilet odors and other zhit.

Let that sink in.

Then the patron MUST wear the zhit laden mask back into the restaurant so that with every exhale the patrons innocently eating pancakes can get a dose of the restroom zhit.

Let that sink in.

Still hungry?


16 posted on 04/17/2021 11:46:17 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Mogger

You seem to be suffering from acute stomaphobia.


17 posted on 04/17/2021 11:47:11 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: vpintheak

COVID has a fear of flying.


18 posted on 04/17/2021 12:08:32 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: aimhigh

The junta will never grant “permission”. You just have to do it and force your will.


19 posted on 04/17/2021 12:19:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: lightman

I’ve always considered public restrooms to be the most dangerous places for Covid transmission.


20 posted on 04/17/2021 1:33:53 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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