Kansas has 3 church-related COVID-19 clusters

By rmrd0000 on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 9:59pm |

The Kansas Governor banned large gatherings to encourage social distancing

Initially, churches were exempted

After clusters of outbreaks were linked to churches, large church serviced were banned

The Republican legislature revoked the church ban

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article241861126.html

The Governor is suing the legislators

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article241897611.html

Republicans want to kill us

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https://www.kansas.com/news/coronavirus/article241810656.html

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Central, Louisiana, March 22, 1,800 people:

This is infuriating. I don’t know Tony Spell but I can say without a doubt he is jeopardizing the health and safety of his congregation. If his healing powers were as advertised he’d be too busy healing to hold these services. #lagov #lalege #COVID19 https://t.co/AmGYqumza5
— Trey Ourso (@BTRrudieman) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 10:45pm

fuck em. fuck em all. You can't fix stupid. Though this just might be an objective lesson that sinks in.

by ocean-kat on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 11:55pm

God will provide. What he provides is up to him. Inch'Allah. Unto thee I entrust my soul.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 12:46am

fuck em. fuck em all

I am put in mind of the timeless words penned by Dickens,

" 'Fuck'em all, every last one' said the fuddled Tiny Tim as he laid vigorously about his sister's head and shoulders with his crutch..."

by jollyroger on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 10:11am

Actually they are fixing stupid - it's just their wandering afterwards will take some non-stupid with them. Spring Break, cruise ships, Mardi Gras, religious services - pack 'em in, boys...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 11:01am

The pagans on the stupidity:evil's sibling

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 2:01pm

Pastors should know the story in Exodus of people surviving a terrible plague by obeying a church command to stay in their homes until the danger passed.

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 9:06pm

Religious extremists are making the coronavirus pandemic even worse. My piece https://t.co/7rGucZ6gIL
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) March 30, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 4:20am

No "Fuck em all".

The organizers should be arrested,they are murderers. Thei followers are like all other followers: Catholics, Yankee fans,Mormons, Democrats : a charismatic speaker has persuaded them to do something

-which they are convinced is a good thing- but will harm many including the believers.

I expect Matthew, Mark, Luke and etc,were considered to be trouble makers. And Ghandi and King.

We don't have to tolerate dangerous leaders, stop them while also remembering

at least of them are sincere.

And wrong.

by Flavius on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 11:21am

Typhoid Mary sued for the right to be able to spread disease.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/typhoid-mary-tragic-tale-exposed-health-impacts-super-spreaders/

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 1:46pm

Billy Barr is on her team with his pile of small pox blankets.

by moat on Sun, 04/12/2020 - 1:16pm

Hate to be a wet blanket

https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/12/2020 - 1:52pm

The effectiveness of the technique may be unsettled history but the genocidal intent is clear.

In the case of Barr, he cannot be intending to kill the parishioners, only pandering to them in order to cover for his Boss. It doesn't seem to have occurred to these people that all these deaths will eventually be associated to words they speak.

by moat on Sun, 04/12/2020 - 2:50pm

Virginia pastor who held packed church service dies of coronavirus https://t.co/jKVIwvP0zF
— Patrick LaForge (@palafo) April 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 5:08am

You just can't make this stuff up...

by jollyroger on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 8:25am

"Navajo officials, who have traced the surge in the reservation’s coronavirus cases to a March 7 rally held by an evangelical church, warn that infections will rise in the weeks ahead, potentially reaching a peak in about a month."

Devastating.
— Fran Adkins (@fran_adkins) April 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 5:16am

Surge in c19 on Navajo reservation traced to evangelical gathering . pic.twitter.com/P7oEjbFDnH
— jorja davis (@jorjadavis) April 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 5:25am

As Universities Warned Students Of Virus, Liberty Kept Its Students In The Dark

HuffPost found that the evangelical college led by Jerry Falwell Jr. gave little to no information to students in the early weeks of March, flouting CDC guidelines. https://t.co/9I8SrP3UTL
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) April 10, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 5:22am

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