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We are running out of masks, gowns, gloves, ventilators and personnel and the so-called president trots a bunch of people onstage to discuss drug interdiction?
the order states groups smaller than 10. churches here seem to follow that. we are virtual and are organizing groups that will make contact with our vulnerable members and figuring out how to get the things they need etc.
we have been organizing to get our single people virtually connected so they aren't left in isolation.
churches are very essential.
yes they are as long as use wisdom and help the needy with common sense. Yes pray, yes preach just don't congregate! Now the tithes need to help out the the flock! as Jesus intended!!
We are running out of masks, gowns, gloves, ventilators and personnel and the so-called president trots a bunch of people onstage to discuss drug interdiction?
Think Social Distancing For Coronavirus Is Overkill? Here’s A Cautionary Tale From 1918
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Today, nearly all public events have been cancelled, but a century ago, with the U.S. in the midst of another pandemic — the 1918 flu — some cities insisted on holding parades. Not shockingly, it didn’t end well.
The article is a "tale of 2 cities" in 1918. One which followed pandemic guidelines and one which did not.
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St. Louis had already cancelled its parade, because public health officials worried that the flu would spread like wildfire in the packed crowds of spectators (just over a century later, that news sounds awfully familiar). But in Philadelphia, the city’s public health director William Krusen didn’t want to cancel the Liberty Loan parade. Krusen worried about causing a panic over what he had already dismissed as “old-fashioned influenza or grip” (something else which sounds a bit too familiar in 2020).
Philadelphia’s city government was also under pressure from the federal government to meet a quota for war bond sales, and at the time, that seemed more urgent than the specter of a pandemic.
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On September 28, about 200,000 people packed themselves into a 2-mile stretch of the city’s Broad Street to watch the parade of floats and marching bands led by John Philip Sousa himself. The first flu cases showed up two days later. By the end of the third day, flu patients filled every bed in every hospital in Philadelphia, and by the end of the week, 2,600 people had died.
The city announced a lockdown on October 3, similar to the measures many U.S. cities have implemented in the last few days. In response, the Philadelphia Enquirer observed, “The authorities seem to be daft. What are they trying to do – scare everybody to death?” More than 12,000 people in Philadelphia died of the flu over the next several weeks.
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Meanwhile, in St. Louis, where the parade had been cancelled, only about 700 people died of the flu. Keeping people home did save thousands of lives in St. Louis, while people gathering in large numbers cost thousands of lives in Philadelphia. A century later, historian and author Kenneth C. Davis wrote that the anniversary of the end of World War I offered “a good moment to remember the damaging costs of shortsighted medical decisions shaped by politics during a pandemic that was more deadly than war.”
Crimson Contagion was a simulation administered by the Department of Health and Human Services from January to August 2019 that tested the capacity of the U.S. federal government and twelve U.S. states to respond to a severe influenza pandemic originating in China. The exercise involves a scenario in which tourists returning from China spread a respiratory virus in the United States, beginning in Chicago. In less than two months the virus had infected 110 million Americans, killing more than half a million. The report issued at the conclusion of the exercise outlines the government's limited capacity to respond to a pandemic, with federal agencies lacking the funds, coordination, and resources to facilitate an effective response to the virus.[1][2]
We are running out of masks, gowns, gloves, ventilators and personnel and the so-called president trots a bunch of people onstage to discuss drug interdiction?
He's gone of the rails the day after I said he was presidential. This is like the second or third time this has happened during this crisis. He is a horrible leader.
The coronavirus outbreak in the United States continues to shape up like a somewhat worse than normal case of the flu
It's much worse than the flu, because the vast majority of people have no immunity to it. Think about the first contact that Europeans had with Native Americans and what the common flu meant then. It wasn't pretty.
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