[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Louisiana church packed for services again despite charges against pastor amid pandemic

Buses and cars filled a Louisiana church parking lot for another service Tuesday evening as worshippers flocked to hear a Louisiana pastor who is facing misdemeanor charges for holding services despite a ban on gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A few protesters turned out, too, including a man shouting through a bullhorn against those gathering at the Life Tabernacle Church in the city of Central, where pastor Tony Spell has been holding services. Another demonstrator held up a sign reading: "God don't like stupid."

[...] the service was jammed with hundreds of parishioners.'

https://www.cbsnews....kRqhT_rbTyXgwnQ

[amphibian]

Primateus, on 01 April 2020 - 11:38 AM, said:

While I'm aware that it's really nowhere near as bad as Italy, Spain, Iran, China or even the US, the death toll in Denmark has now gone above 100. It's just a few every day, but it adds up.

Every one of these deaths and hospitalizations is a sad thing. I'm sorry it's gotten to Denmark and that people are getting hurt.

Louisiana is going to have a hard time with this. They don't have a governor that promised Trump that he'll win the election critical state of Florida if he gives extra aid to them. The supplies are already being weighted to Florida and the governor got to hold off the stay in place order for weeks bc Trump let him do that in an effort to be buddy buddy.

[Aptorian]

Primateus, on 01 April 2020 - 11:38 AM, said:

While I'm aware that it's really nowhere near as bad as Italy, Spain, Iran, China or even the US, the death toll in Denmark has now gone above 100. It's just a few every day, but it adds up.

Meanwhile I'm following the news of what Sweden is doing across the water. That's a big Scandinavian experiment on what happens when you decide to be lax.

[amphibian]

And the Florida stay at home order excludes churches, especially the mega churches, from the ban on gatherings: https://www.cltampa....avirus-outbreak

I'm extremely ticked off that these irresponsible dumbasses continually get elected and are popular because they get mad nicely on TV.

In Italy they're making life and death choices over who gets a ventilator bc there's not enough to go around.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Thought rural areas might be spared. If they shelter in place and avoid large gatherings almost certainly, but if not:

'[...] Coronavirus "Hit Like a Bomb"

It was an old-fashioned Southern funeral.

There was a repast table crammed with casseroles, Brunswick stew, fried chicken and key lime cake. Andrew Jerome Mitchell, a retired janitor, was one of 10 siblings. They told stories, debated for the umpteenth time how he got the nickname Doorface.

People wiped tears away, and embraced, and blew their noses, and belted out hymns. They laughed, remembering. It was a big gathering, with upward of 200 mourners overflowing the memorial chapel, so people had to stand outside.

Dorothy Johnson has gone over the scene in her mind over the last month, asking herself who it was who brought the virus to her brother's funeral.

"We don't know who the person was," she said. "It would help me to know."

[...] This rural county in southwest Georgia, 40 miles from the nearest interstate, now has one of the most intense clusters of the coronavirus in the country."

"Really, there is no face to what is going on in Albany," she said."

"We're not blaming that one visitor, but potentially a community is one person away from something like this exploding," said Scott Steiner, the chief executive of Phoebe Putney Health System, which has taken the brunt of the surge.'

https://www.nytimes....ny-georgia.html

'Is the South Ready for the Coronavirus?

The coronavirus is spreading swiftly through the South. T[...] The virus's spread in Louisiana is among the fastest in the world. Beaches in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and the Carolinas all recently drew crowds of non–socially distant spring breakers. Reports of raucous partying in Southern cities such as Nashville, Tennessee, continued long after New York and the West Coast showed just how bad things could get. And churches remained stuffed with congregants, while some deeply conservative Southerners swatted away concerns about the pandemic, labeling it a liberal hoax meant to damage President Donald Trump, who has downplayed the severity of the pandemic.

Some state leaders have followed him and expressed reluctance to do anything.'

https://slate.com/ne...rida-cases.html

'Georgia Mayor Cancels Social Distancing Order Despite State Having Almost 5,000 Coronavirus Cases

"While the intent of the order was to protect the public from the spread of COVID-19, it is obvious that a large portion of our public doesn't want government mandating the recommendations of public health officials[...] A huge sticking point in the order was the appointment of special policemen to help enforce the order. [...] People reacted strongly on social media thinking we were becoming a police state. That was never the intent."'

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 02 April 2020 - 02:55 AM

[amphibian]

Briar King, on 02 April 2020 - 03:08 AM, said:

Georgia follows Kansas and closes school for the year today. I think this is only the 2nd state to have done so yes? Surely more to follow...

Nine states have closed for the remainder of the school year.

Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Virginia.

A few announced several days ago while Georgia announced today.

[amphibian]

Here's a picture that should make us very angry:

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[Tiste Simeon]

The South is a special breed of stupid isn't it?

[Aptorian]

Didn't your own country adopt the same stupid policy, Tiste. Or are you just sympathizing?

[Obdigore]

I mean... the country areas need to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a grocery store.

I'd be more interested in a 'amount of social distancing' and 'local governments who have cancelled events and ordered non-essential businesses to close'

[amphibian]

Obdigore, on 02 April 2020 - 05:06 PM, said:

I mean... the country areas need to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a grocery store.

I'd be more interested in a 'amount of social distancing' and 'local governments who have cancelled events and ordered non-essential businesses to close'

The 100 miles to a store thing isn't that common in the Southeastern US. That's more of a Midwest thing.

The UK was also very late on adopting "stay at home" protocols. So saying the South is especially stupid is wrong here.

What I am angry about with this picture is that it shows that it is consistently the South that has governments that will not act swiftly to protect its poorer or more vulnerable populations.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he wasn't aware that asymptomatic people could transmit coronavirus as he announced he was preparing to issue a state-wide shelter-in-place order.

Kemp had resisted imposing tougher measures to tackle the pandemic, but on Wednesday he joined other Republican governors including the leaders of Florida and Mississippi in announcing he would sign a stay-at-home order. The order, which he said he would sign on Thursday, will go into effect on Friday.

[...] He said his decision to issue the shelter-in-place order came after he found out that people could transmit the virus before they started showing symptoms.'

https://www.newsweek...Y1ai-ZpvSE5R8fA

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 02 April 2020 - 05:28 PM

[Obdigore]

amphibian, on 02 April 2020 - 05:12 PM, said:

Obdigore, on 02 April 2020 - 05:06 PM, said:

I mean... the country areas need to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a grocery store.

I'd be more interested in a 'amount of social distancing' and 'local governments who have cancelled events and ordered non-essential businesses to close'

The 100 miles to a store thing isn't that common in the Southeastern US. That's more of a Midwest thing.

The UK was also very late on adopting "stay at home" protocols. So saying the South is especially stupid is wrong here.

What I am angry about with this picture is that it shows that it is consistently the South that has governments that will not act swiftly to protect its poorer or more vulnerable populations.

We've known for years that the state governments in the south do not act to protect its poorer or more vulnerable populations.

As to you claiming 'it isn't that common', here is the FDA disagreeing with you:
https://www.google.c...X3jI7B8F4gE3PgQ

The technical term is 'food desert', and it is a helluva problem in the US.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Awaken Church, a health and wealth prosperity Church based out of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is claiming that Jesus was the first victim to die of coronavirus, (Editors Note. Possibly foreshadowed in Mathew 15:2? "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.")




The picture comes along with a caption that reads:

The first death of Covid 19 actually happened 2000 years ago. The Bible tells us that Jesus took on every sin, sickness and every disease…Jesus bore it so you wouldn't have to. Salvation provided forgiveness and healing…if you'll believe it, you can receive it!'

https://pulpitandpen...of-coronavirus/

'The church has attracted some attention in the past several weeks by continuing services despite the spread of the coronavirus and advice from the government to avoid social gatherings of larger than ten. Although Governor Asa Hutchinson has made the suggestion an order, the governor said separation of church and state dictated that he exclude places of worship from the mandate.

Most area churches have heeded the advice and shut down gatherings at their buildings. Awaken Church said doing this would go against their "extremely strong convictions of the power of God to protect and the power of God to heal."'

https://neareport.co...fXwtRL_c1I8pXwQ

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 02 April 2020 - 07:13 PM

[amphibian]

Obdigore, on 02 April 2020 - 05:37 PM, said:

amphibian, on 02 April 2020 - 05:12 PM, said:

Obdigore, on 02 April 2020 - 05:06 PM, said:

I mean... the country areas need to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a grocery store.

I'd be more interested in a 'amount of social distancing' and 'local governments who have cancelled events and ordered non-essential businesses to close'

The 100 miles to a store thing isn't that common in the Southeastern US. That's more of a Midwest thing.

The UK was also very late on adopting "stay at home" protocols. So saying the South is especially stupid is wrong here.

What I am angry about with this picture is that it shows that it is consistently the South that has governments that will not act swiftly to protect its poorer or more vulnerable populations.

We've known for years that the state governments in the south do not act to protect its poorer or more vulnerable populations.

As to you claiming 'it isn't that common', here is the FDA disagreeing with you:
https://www.google.c...X3jI7B8F4gE3PgQ

The technical term is 'food desert', and it is a helluva problem in the US.

That's a link saying "within a mile". We were talking about 100 miles to a grocery store. Not many people living 100 miles from a small town except out in the Midwest. Not enough room to do that.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 02 April 2020 - 07:16 PM, said:

That's a link saying "within a mile". We were talking about 100 miles to a grocery store. Not many people living 100 miles from a small town except out in the Midwest. Not enough room to do that.

Food deserts are a real problem though and there are a tonne of other variables and stats that contribute to them besides just the distance factor (be it 1 mile, or 10 or 30).

Here's a good link with some infographic stuff.

https://socialwork.t...erts-in-america

[Primateus]

I just read an article that stated the US has gotten 6 MILLION more unemployed in just a week. Which is worrying, especially so because during the crisis '08, the highest number for one week was 650k.

And apparently it's just getting started. If accurate, this is going to fuck up all of us.

[King Lear]

Don't worry, Jared Kushner, the first son-in-law has replaced the Pandemic Response Team and Elon Musk will be making thousands of ventilators buying thousands of BPAP machines so all will be well.

[amphibian]

Primateus, on 02 April 2020 - 08:38 PM, said:

I just read an article that stated the US has gotten 6 MILLION more unemployed in just a week. Which is worrying, especially so because during the crisis '08, the highest number for one week was 650k.

And apparently it's just getting started. If accurate, this is going to fuck up all of us.

The true number is higher. Many people have not been able to get through to file for unemployment insurance benefits. I know 4 people who've been trying for 10 days. The systems to receive calls or online contacts are overwhelmed and the state Departments of Labor are hiring people to process the claims.

Ohio and possibly other states have been told to either stop reporting daily numbers or underreport them or possibly to fudge them: https://www.bizjourn...ease-daily.html

Things are very bad here - but we can put an economy back together with people. We can't lose 250,000 people and have hundreds of thousands of others irreparably harmed and put the economy back together as well.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'JOHNSTOWN, [Pennsylvania] — A man coughing and not covering his mouth led to shots fired at a Johnstown Sheetz[...]

Police say officers were called to the Sheetz on Broad Street last Saturday for reports of shots fired into an occupied vehicle.'

https://wjactv.com/n...ohnstown-sheetz

(One provincialism I'll allow myself is Wawa >>> Sheetz)



'American tourist, 64, is arrested after wiping his saliva on a banknote and leaving it on an ATM in Cambodia amid coronavirus crisis

[...] The counterfeit $10 note had been defaced with the words: "I am alive via Jesus Christ".'

https://www.dailymai...M-Cambodia.html




'Calgary Man Charged With Threatening to Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous Peoples

Police say the white man in his early 20s threatened to "wipe out the species" in a Facebook message.

Constable Craig Collins, Calgary Police's hate crimes coordinator, told VICE that a white male in his early 20s was arrested over a viral Facebook post in which he threatened to go to a nearby reserve and spread COVID-19.

"We were approached by an elder of one of the Indigenous communities," Collins said. "It was a threat that said he would contract coronavirus or Ebola and touch things, infect the reserve and 'wipe out the species.'"'

https://www.vice.com...digenous-people

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 03 April 2020 - 03:34 AM