Yes, if they're made to stay in there for no less than 40 days and nights. We barricade the congregation inside then see how much they like coming close to god then.
And afterwards the will be free to roam the earth as a congregation much younger than it was. That's the spirit of religion.
Nobody trusts an atheist even other atheists. Unless they're British. Britain is the oldest modern country in the world and for us it's second nature to say if you believe in a god you'll believe in anything, if you'll tell yourself that you'll tell yourself anything.
It was traditional to believe that people could trust you because you're being watched by a god. If god doesn't exist, everything is permitted. In the modern world we say god is man-made and those who follow him inhabit a bizarre world of fantasy and deception of self or other. If god doesn't exist, everything is permitted.
They believed in their medicine like one believes in a god or a Trump. There's no real evidence for it, but it was very comforting for reasons unknown to us now.
Although what I would say about cheap is that it is practicable at least on one level. Anti-virals handed out like they were smarties, you'd giving them to 20+ people well in advance for the possibility that 1 could be saved. Which from another angle is very toxic.
There's a couple of drugs that probably do work better, the best thing about Chloroquinine is that it's cheap.
And yet shutting down the virus might not be the answer so much as turning off the response to it is. Over-reacting in defence the body kills itself having too much going on.
Once Smithers and Mr Burns exist this changes everything for the masses one way or another. The working class cannot unsee the ventilators they know to exist they can't help but notice the volume of waste and leisure whilst millions of their fellow countrymen died. The masses become aware of the concept of avoidable death and from here came the idea that a human life has value.
And one helluva lot of socialist and communist revolutions broke out 100 years ago in the midst of the Spanish flu right after the war precisely because we tried to snap them back into peasantry. Human rights had evolved thorughout the 19th century but then it was back to die like cattle. You have to avoid dying like cattle in a society of fabulous money and means.
And that should be the standard requirement. If at the best of times your life is worth $2 and 30 seconds of a doctor's time don't go to any great expense trying to swerve corona.
However, if it's just everyones elses life you see as worth $2 and 30 seconds whilst retaining expensive surgery for yourself then do try to swerve corona as a society. You'll realise that whilst everyone sees the other as expendable nobody sees themselves as expendable - and there would be a bloodbath, not a flourishing economy.
Normally we would spend a lot of time and money repairing people who from recklessness or neglect injure themselves.
That's what shocking about this. Under business as usual innocent people are worth about $2 and 30 seconds of a doctor's time following on from expensive surgeries for people with what can best be described as a death force.
I know that Negative O is that magical blood that can save anyone it happens to be mine. But this is what we need. A better picture of our strengths and weaknesses to provide something more tailored in our defences rather than hitting society with a sledgehammer like Stalin.
Although time helps us in so many ways to understand the virus the best defence remains an army of young blood. Blood type O they believe. We need to know if things like blood type O really are resistant and organise the front line accordingly.
The most likely result of lockdown(s)is to arrive at herd immunity in stages. Ideally we would fine-tune a level of restriction that provides just the right number of corona cases at any one time. On the balance of probability the majority of folks under 60 still catch this.
And I would bet that following this period of lifesaving and going without there will come a period of feeding the hungry and the suffering of the world. Society gets into this in a big way. It's a sin how much we love food.
Maybe the lockdown would curb obesity, not just because of rationing and shortages but because of equality. Eating too much is a product of someone else having a better car or a more attractive wife, it's a comfort eating but the pain is envy pain: to stuff ones face through the tears of seeing someone more successful: Don't get even, get eating.
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RE: Should Churches be allowed to hold Easter Services when the COVID-19 'lockdown' is in effect?
Yes, if they're made to stay in there for no less than 40 days and nights. We barricade the congregation inside then see how much they like coming close to god then.And afterwards the will be free to roam the earth as a congregation much younger than it was. That's the spirit of religion.