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While I understand your sentiment, and speaking (digitally) as one who is obeying all the directives...which I think are pretty much the same in Canada as in the U.S......I am also trying to walk in the shoes of those who are ignoring these directives to attend worship. Yes, the Bible tells...

Ultimately I think we're simply seeing some businesses take advantage of the situation....I recently saw an article about an airline demanding workers take a 15% wage reduction. Some might look at this and say something like..."you see, this was engineered so that employers could cut wages"...

That's what's been done....I gave my testimony on Palm Sunday, and it was broadcast via streaming....I went to the church the Wednesday prior, there was a guy doing the technical stuff, my Pastor and myself....and we kept our distance, even measured it off so as to not accidently...

Guys like Copeland were the reason why, for a number of years, I was reluctant to proclaim myself a Christian....I didn't want to be lumped in with those who follow his preaching, now I don't worry about it. But it does bother me... If someone starts selling a miracle oil or something, saying...

Something worth talking about. In the United States the Constitution is a revered document, regarded with almost Biblical type authority by many. The US Constitution guarantees the right to assemble and to practice one's religion. What does this woman mean when she says: "I'm covered in...

The virus is a threat, its real....same as the flu is a threat to cancer patients every year....anyone who has undergone chemo knows all about the measures being taken everywhere, cancer patients during flu season live with this as reality every year...avoid large crowds, keep your distance...

I'm not an expert on infectious viral diseases, I don't know.

I don't know....I'm pretty much ignoring case figures because testing for the virus is all over the map....just within Canada the province of Quebec is testing lots more people than in my province of Ontario.....more tests means more mild and asymptomatic cases revealed. In Sweden it was only 6...

I honestly don't think these measures will do much....and we can look at Sweden to see if they went too far....allowing some variance for population age and health care capacity we'll see if Sweden's overall mortality is significantly worse than comparable countries...if it isn't then the...

Pandemic is not a hard and fast term....there's no magic line that has to be crossed. Some jurisdictions refer to the 2009 flu season as a pandemic, some do not, its just a word. The question I have, as a Canadian is this..... If an essential worker like a grocery store worker refused to go...

Agreed, its not the seasonal flu....we have antibodies and vaccines to protect us from the flu every year, and even with those defenses ~600,000 people can die due to influenza in a bad year. https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=208914 When this is all said and done...

I'm not being rude...you're the one who once exhorted me to PROVE IT with respect to the ICollege report and I did. I'm sorry if you were offended, but if you're going to make a statement I merely ask you to back it up with facts. I'm sorry if that hurt your feelings, it was not my intent.

Wait, if one is going to say something like "deaths like this are never seen like this from the flu".....then unless you have actual data to back it up, then you're talking out of your nether regions.

When all is said and done we shall see if Covid-19 results in substantially more deaths than would be seen in a bad flu season from influenza....we have no real defense against the coronavirus, unlike with the flu where we have so called 'herd immunity' and vaccines every year.

I would love to see the stats for how many Doctors die during from influenze during a flu season....I've never seen it reported, please share a link.

There's a concept called the hierarchy of needs....after you've got food and clothing you start to worry about things like love and finding a partner, check that box off and you start to want to acquire things to express who you are....after that you might worry about what they call self...

I covered those points pretty much in the post you responded to....with the exception that you say about flu cases"most do not require ventilation, and if they do only for a few days". I have no experience in that area....when nearly 25,000 Italians died during the 2016/2017 flu season I have...

My own attitudes are evolving....early on, when this started with the reporting out of China I was paying attention. Given that the symptoms were similar to flu, and that in the worst outcomes the virus attacked the lungs requiring ventilation, again like flu....with both being contagious...

Broadly speaking we have two competing narratives going on here. On the one hand you have those who believe the pandemic is incredibly serious and that, if anything, not enough is being done.....that lock down measures should perhaps be enforced even more. They see anyone disagreeing as...

I really wish the reporting was more precise....what I wonder, is with those who are younger...say 20 to 50 years of age who are experiencing more acute symptoms that require medical attention.....are they otherwise healthy??? Diabetes affects over 2 million Canadians....and it is said to...