Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are Confronting Coronavirus Cases.

[Blake]

"PENDLETON, Ore. — Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed.

The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches that reopened cautiously with face masks and social distancing in the pews, as well as some that defied lockdowns and refused to heed new limits on numbers of worshipers.

Pastors and their families have tested positive, as have church ushers, front-door greeters and hundreds of churchgoers. In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another. In Florida, a teenage girl died last month after attending a youth party at her church...."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/u...outbreaks.html

[ChumpDumper]

"PENDLETON, Ore. — Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed.

The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches that reopened cautiously with face masks and social distancing in the pews, as well as some that defied lockdowns and refused to heed new limits on numbers of worshipers.

Pastors and their families have tested positive, as have church ushers, front-door greeters and hundreds of churchgoers. In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another. In Florida, a teenage girl died last month after attending a youth party at her church...."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/u...outbreaks.html

Antifa infiltration.

All according to the plan.

[Will Hunting]

God is a real . If he isn’t protecting assholes like me from getting COVID that’s one thing, but he won’t even protect his flock.

What a ing asshole tbh.

[baseline bum]

In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another.

That church is in ing Universal City. Calvary Church. Sucks because I'm in that same shopping center that pos church is in a lot to get pizza or Vietnamese food.

[ChumpDumper]

One potential problem is that if a congregation doesn't get infected, it might get more lax in its mitigation measures (if it has any). Once a spreader does get in there, the impact could be worse than if it had happened the first week.

[TSA]

"PENDLETON, Ore. — Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed.

The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches that reopened cautiously with face masks and social distancing in the pews, as well as some that defied lockdowns and refused to heed new limits on numbers of worshipers.

Pastors and their families have tested positive, as have church ushers, front-door greeters and hundreds of churchgoers. In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another. In Florida, a teenage girl died last month after attending a youth party at her church...."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/u...outbreaks.html

More than 650 cases have been linked to religious facilities during the pandemic

Oh my god 650 cases out of 3.2 million cases

[Will Hunting]

Quite frankly if everyone re ed enough to sit shoulder to shoulder with other people in a crowded ass church right now got COVID-19 and died, it would be an amazing case of Darwinism.

[TSA]

Perfect thread for this hot take

[baseline bum]

Quite frankly if everyone re ed enough to sit shoulder to shoulder with other people in a crowded ass church right now got COVID-19 and died, it would be an amazing case of Darwinism.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Blake]

Oh my god 650 cases out of 3.2 million cases

650 cases linked to 40 churches that were open on Sunday for a couple of hours.

BUT LET'S GET THOSE THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN AND GOING

[TSA]

650 cases linked to 40 churches that were open on Sunday for a couple of hours.

BUT LET'S GET THOSE THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN AND GOING

More than 650 coronavirus cases have been linked to nearly 40 churches and religious events across the United States since the beginning of the pandemic

650 cases

[boutons_deux]

650 cases

so what's your advice?

what's your guidance in the face of the surging pandemic?

If you were responsible for telling people how to handle their lives to survive the pandemic, what would it be?

[hater]

there is a heat map of Covid fires and next to a map of bible belt bible thumping counties. Its ing exact copies

Ill make a thread of it soon

[Blake]

650 cases

Churches are only open a couple of days a week. I don't know if you knew that.

[Spurtacular]

Churches are only open a couple of days a week. I don't know if you knew that.

You know that because you're a parishioner.

[Spurtacular]

650 cases linked to 40 churches that were open on Sunday for a couple of hours.

BUT LET'S GET THOSE THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN AND GOING

"Linked"

How many have been linked to Wal Mart? Target? Costco?

[Blake]

You know that because you're a parishioner.

Anyone with a lick of common knowledge knows it.

[Blake]

"Linked"

How many have been linked to Wal Mart? Target? Costco?

This simple stuff is apparently way over your head. Go back and play in your sandbox thread

[Spurtacular]

Anyone with a lick of common knowledge knows it.

You know it because you're a parishioner.

[Spurtacular]

This simple stuff is apparently way over your head. Go back and play in your sandbox thread

It's simple that you don't know?

How many cases have been linked to Wal Mart and Costco?

Or are you just interested in targeting the churches?

[TSA]

Perfect thread for this hot take

[RandomGuy]

Oh my god 650 cases out of 3.2 million cases

Alt-right math. I see why the other thread.

[points out failure of reasoning by asking pointed question that will be ignored]

[RandomGuy]

"Linked"

How many have been linked to Wal Mart? Target? Costco?

We don't know. The reason we don't know: No contact tracing. More bungling by the Trump adminstation.

Even when you try to be cute... it merely highlights more Trump bungling.

[Blake]

We're not at war in Vietnam. What a stupid comparison.

[hater]

In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another. In Florida, a teenage girl died last month after attending a youth party at her church...."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/u...outbreaks.html

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