I tell ya one thing that probably gets neglected and not talked about as much as public schools get monitored 'hellwise' ahem I mean healthwise are churches. Churches probably aren't monitored enough in so far as covid and diseases go..
..While I have no idea how many people got sick at the church we used to attend I do know the minister's mother died of covid and I believe the minister has been sick with covid twice. That's all I really know. Churches are a magnet for our older generation and there should be safety protocols in place to save these churches and the people who attended them. Perhaps churches that want to survive need to take a strong stance on Masks and strong online activities.
Here's our Local church update (the church we personally quit when the pandemic began around 2020): before 2020 there were 120 members of the church now after a succession of almost five years it being near late 2024 there is something like 30 members and 3 people left in the choir... a trio hopefully that wears masks.
I dare say there should be an 11th commandment entitled don't make one another sicketh..wear a masketh and abideth by certain hygienic and space practices amongst ye seating areas for worship... Do not shaketh hands or hugeth one another in warm embrace in doorway upon entering and do not holdeth hands in circle to pray and don't touch your face under your mask without vigorous hand washing in private!
I may be a simpleton but according to the Ten Commandments you're not supposed to hurt anybody or even yourself and making one another sick is hurtful to everybody and risking getting sick is somewhat suicidal if you think about it. Making one another sick is simply a sin. one could carry this even further and easily argue the case that we that wear masks might not just wear masks for health reasons but we also might wear safety masks for ethical, moral, and even religious reasons... I can speak for myself and maybe other maskers out there that we as maskers love God given life and we respect life here on earth. I as a masker obviously don't wanna get hurt and we don't wanna hurt anybody because of of the dangerous microscopic entities at play proven by the God given people who utilize electron microscopes. Anyway for what its worth, that's my little religious and scientific view.
Why heck if you intentionally harm someone or make someone sick on purpose then that's a little like trying to murder somebody or at least hurt them. Disease and illness after all takes only second place to Death! Of course there's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Old Testament's Book of Ezekiel they are sword, famine, wild beasts and pestilence or plague! Don't be a flying horseman of death or a wolf in sheep's clothing only to bring bring a pestilence and plague to your churches ye proud but hasty maskless! Anyway making another sick and getting sick is surely a sin because it's simply hurtful! You decide for yourselves but that's what I think.
So far after five years of a pandemic and five years of observing society, observing the illness of people in politics as well as other walks of life, school statistics.. data from this forum, studies from abroad and scholarly medical papers being brought forward about covid and other emerging diseases such as bird flu, it is appearing that I am right that people at large are suffering and being unduly hurt by covid and other emerging diseases.
Regardless of my zany unorthodox untraditional religious views there appear to be microscopic entities proved by electron microscopes to exist which are wreaking havoc on society and so called normal way of living since around 2020.You couldn't pay me to go to church much less board a cruiseship nor ride an enclosed elevator with any poor souls out there. For everyday studies seem to emerge proving covid and other diseases are proving a great threat to our species's lifestyles and very lives as time goes by.
I am not a participant of church since 2020 but I can only suspect that over the last several years members of our local church were either getting sick or they fled for self preservation and good reason. This lack of church attendance is no doubt due to covid pandemic and probably lack of safety measures in place such as masks and spacing out of seats and there's probably no rules or code of conduct that reflect the current health crisis .. its a shame because these church people are good people with above average discipline often able to abide by certain self imposed rules and customs. Church people contribute a lot to society and so society loses a lot when they lose their local churches due to pandemic no doubt.
I am sure this is a widespread problem for many churches due to the way the churches are traditionally set up such as their close encounters with one another. The typical church age group is at risk however this is not limited to age as I don't buy the sometimes held belief that covid and other diseases are only a problem for the elderly... I believe all age groups are prone to, suffer from and spread diseases alike such as covid.
Anyway this may appear as a huge loss.. the loss of an incredible beautiful church and the companionship, the relationships and love and humanity that came from that church.. it breaks our heart because that church gave so much to its community and helped so many people that it hurts to see no one could help it as it has dwindled…
… on the other hand if the church didn’t dwindle in number more people might get sick. Perhaps we should be grateful church attendance has dwindled so fewer people risk getting sick! Regardless I’d say ideally it would be best to have very small safe church with lots of safety protocols in place with a small attendance rather than an unsafe church too big for its britches. Quality is always to be preferred over quantity. Perhaps churches with small attendance and safety protocols drive away the masses which is a good thing. I am inclined to think that churches everywhere should be in a state of reform so they are more likely to survive in the long haul. This goes for the pope as well! What good is a pope that keeps drawing crowds, keeps kissing hands and keeps getting sick and keeps catching covid? Change thy ways churchgoers and change the ways of the church! Look what happened to our church the ministers mom died of covid and the minister has had covid at least twice and now the church is almost gone. Don't get the Masked Man started but seniors defend ourselves! I'm 53 years old and I speed through the parking lots today masked on my bicycle and I see all these super old people all hobbling limping into grocery store slow as molasses with no masks on.. they already look sick... its disgusting .. defend yourselves seniors with a mask!
Correct me if I am wrong, but ever since I was a little kid I have always loved older people and thought to myself when I was really little (perhaps daydreaming in school) "You know if an older person didn't catch pneumonia, the flu or even the common cold they might actually live longer and pass away happier as well". Ive always just sort of known this. Correct me if this is a fallacy of thinking or if this is but a figment of my imagination that many older people stand a chance at living longer healthier happy lives without catching airborne diseases...
...therefore safety masks seem like a pretty cool thing to this old boy. My grandma lived to be 103 years old so I’m gonna try to break her record!
....would love to hear what others have observed since I am somewhat isolated from the general public and have relatively few dealings with people out in the public at all since 2020.
There but for the grace of the mask go I,
Saint Masked Man
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