How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Veritable Quandry]

So where are all those "Healing ministries" right now and why aren't they busy casting out the demons of Covid-19 from members of the congregation afflicted by them?

It would be such an ideal opportunity, one would have thought, to bear witness to the truth of Scripture, thus bringing multitudes to salvation after seeing the healing power of miracles.

Seriously, I wonder what effect this is having on tele-evangelism and prosperity churches and so on, and how they're explaining their failure to pray away the plague, particularly since the Covid-19 demons seem to take a delight in attacking pastors and members of their congregations who stand up for Jesus by holding in-person religious worship.

If you are not healed, it is a sign of your own lack of faith. If you are healed, it is the power of the preacher. Either way you should make another donation.

 

[Rose Karuna]

So where are all those "Healing ministries" right now and why aren't they busy casting out the demons of Covid-19 from members of the congregation afflicted by them?

It would be such an ideal opportunity, one would have thought, to bear witness to the truth of Scripture, thus bringing multitudes to salvation after seeing the healing power of miracles.

Seriously, I wonder what effect this is having on tele-evangelism and prosperity churches and so on, and how they're explaining their failure to pray away the plague, particularly since the Covid-19 demons seem to take a delight in attacking pastors and members of their congregations who stand up for Jesus by holding in-person religious worship.

Please don't summon the demons ...

 

[Free]

So where are all those "Healing ministries" right now and why aren't they busy casting out the demons of Covid-19 from members of the congregation afflicted by them?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This might be the start of an entertaining Twitter fight, when two leading lights of UK legal twitter fall out with a third, who seems just now to have crossed the border between right-wing but sane mainstream into crackpot territory.

 

[Free]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

In their defense [not much of one, really], if they get it, all but the craziest of their supporters are more likely to - and in florida, well, I'd like everyone to get a vaccine to spite DeSatan and is 'not mandatory' BS....

 

[Arkady Arkright]

particularly since the Covid-19 demons seem to take a delight in attacking pastors and members of their congregations who stand up for Jesus by holding in-person religious worship.

Covid is obviously the work of Satan !!!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Covid is obviously the work of Satan !!!

There's a reason god said thou shall not covid thy neighbor's wife, though a mask helps.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Part of the solution, at least, is to have a properly state-funded health service, managed for the public good, but that's hardly a realistic solution right now, I guess, though sooner or later the state or federal government will have to intervene, surely?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The problem with Medicare For All is that it does not improve rural or inner city access. Biden has proposed additional funds for these providers as a part of his Medicare expansion.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A COVID Story.

On December 5th here in Louisiana, Republican Luke Letlow, a staunch Trump supporter, won a runoff election against State rep Lance Harris to replace retiring Congressman Ralph Abraham as Representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district. MY district - or, well, the district where I live. For what it's worth, Abraham apparently promised back when he originally ran that he would only serve 3 terms in Congress, and he honored that promise by not running again this year, so there's that.

Two weeks after winning the runoff election, on December 18, Letlow announced he had tested positive for coronavirus. He said he was going to follow CDC guidelines and quarantine at home.

Three days later, on December 21, a representative told the press that Letlow was admitted to the hospital for treatment, as he had developed symptoms.

Two days after that, he was transported to the regional hospital in Shreveport because his condition was deteriorating.

Tonight, December 29, he died.

Less than a month after being elected to Congress, Luke Letlow caught COVID-19, and then died from it.

He was 41 years old.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Jolene Benoir]

At current rate, it'll be 10 years before Americans adequately vaccinated against Covid

In other coronavirus news: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris got her shot; the pandemic has left many Americans "stuck in time."

www.nbcnews.com

Anyone surprised? I see no hands up in the air. All I have to say is that we really should be thanking our lucky stars that he and his administration are going to be out of the picture soon. It's up in the air as to how much damage McConnell will do, but as this may well be more fully under the control of the executive, we can breathe a big sigh. There will likely be fumbles and mistakes made, but nothing like what a world under Trump would look like.

I've been thinking on just how much of a bullet we may have dodged by refusing to re-elect Trump. Not only would he have used access or lack of access to the vaccine to punish states that voted for Biden, surely their incompetence combined with malicious intent and profit motive would have harmed us even more than we already have been.

We, thankfully, will never know what evils would have been visited upon us in the next four years. If the last four years were any indication, none of it would have been good and it would have moved with a rapidity that would have had our heads spinning about trying to keep an eye on it all.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

More like "Operation One-Quarter Impulse Power".

 

[Jolene Benoir]

NY Republican conga line led to one of them getting Covid. That's not so bad, but we shall see if others get it.

At Least One Person Is Hospitalized With COVID-19 After Attending That Republican Christmas Party With A Conga Line

“I wasn’t on the conga line. I ate by myself," the Queens Village Republican Club chair said. "I don’t know how I got this."

www.buzzfeednews.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

BeeGees conga line led to one of them getting Covid. That's not so bad, but we shall see if others get it.

At Least One Person Is Hospitalized With COVID-19 After Attending That Republican Christmas Party With A Conga Line

“I wasn’t on the conga line. I ate by myself," the Queens Village Republican Club chair said. "I don’t know how I got this."

www.buzzfeednews.com

“I wasn’t on the conga line. I ate by myself," the Queens Village Republican Club chair said. "I don’t know how I got this."

I mean, you went to an indoor gathering where nobody wore masks. I'm not sure what could possibly have gone wrong there!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I mean, you went to an indoor gathering where nobody wore masks. I'm not sure what could possibly have gone wrong there!

That gif there