Liberty University Brings Back Its Students
Mar 30, 2020 07:00:09 #
"The decision by the school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to partly reopen his evangelical university enraged residents of Lynchburg, Va. Then students started getting sick.
Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm.
As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggested Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.
For critical weeks in January and February, the nation’s far right dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic. Mr. Falwell derided it as an “overreaction” driven by liberal desires to damage Mr. Trump."
Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm.
As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggested Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.
For critical weeks in January and February, the nation’s far right dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic. Mr. Falwell derided it as an “overreaction” driven by liberal desires to damage Mr. Trump."
Mar 30, 2020 07:07:41 #
"A Christian evangelist who mocked the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic has died after likely being infected while preaching on the streets of New Orleans. The city has been hard hit during the pandemic and the recent Mardi Gras celebrations have fueled transmission rates for both tourists and residents.
Landon Spradlin, who ran a musical Christian ministry, took his family with him to New Orleans to “wash it from its Sin and debauchery.” Spradlin became ill while traveling home to Virginia with his wife.
The minister tested positive for COVID-19. He was one of the first people from Virginia to die of the infection.
Spradlin was likely already infected when he posted a misleading meme comparing death rates for COVID-19 and swine flu. The meme claimed that coverage of the ongoing pandemic was a political attack on Donald Trump."
Landon Spradlin, who ran a musical Christian ministry, took his family with him to New Orleans to “wash it from its Sin and debauchery.” Spradlin became ill while traveling home to Virginia with his wife.
The minister tested positive for COVID-19. He was one of the first people from Virginia to die of the infection.
Spradlin was likely already infected when he posted a misleading meme comparing death rates for COVID-19 and swine flu. The meme claimed that coverage of the ongoing pandemic was a political attack on Donald Trump."
Mar 30, 2020 09:57:09 #
BigWahoo wrote:
"The decision by the school’s president, Jerr... (show quote)
After reading that news story. All I could think abut was Edgar Allen Poe's short-story "Death of the Red Mask"
Mar 30, 2020 10:15:05 #
As an atheist, I will make the supreme sacrifice and send my thoughts and prayers to these morons who thought they were exempt because of their, "Christian" beliefs.
Mar 30, 2020 10:15:38 #
I got things little mix up in my last reply. The title of Poe's short-story is "Masque of the Red Death" not what I wrote. Fun I read that short-story back in high school, that was 55+ years ago. Here today I remember that short-story after all those years.
Mar 30, 2020 10:19:04 #
Frank T wrote:
As an atheist, I will make the supreme sacrifice and send my thoughts and prayers to these morons who thought they were exempt because of their, "Christian" beliefs.
Thus speaketh our little Trumper - Frank.
Mar 30, 2020 10:19:50 #
BigWahoo wrote:
"The decision by the school’s president, Jerr... (show quote)
You'd be surprised how little influence Falwell actually has. Dumb move on his part.
Mar 30, 2020 10:28:21 #
Rose42 wrote:
You'd be surprised how little influence Falwell actually has. Dumb move on his part.
"Dumb move on his part" that is a under statement.
Mar 30, 2020 11:20:16 #
Mar 30, 2020 12:36:56 #
Rose42 wrote:
You'd be surprised how little influence Falwell actually has. Dumb move on his part.
He was only following Trump's lead.
For weeks he downplayed the seriousness of the virus.
Mar 30, 2020 12:47:46 #
BigWahoo wrote:
He was only following Trump's lead.
For weeks he downplayed the seriousness of the virus.
For weeks he downplayed the seriousness of the virus.
No kidding. As I said, Falwell doesn’t have as much influence as many attribute to him.
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