God is exempt
Did god make a clerical error?
35 of the 92 people (38%) who attended services at a rural Arkansas church March 6–11 tested positive for the coronavirus, ultimately killing three, according to a case study released Tuesday by the CDC.
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Contact tracing found that an additional 26 people were infected after interacting with attendees of the church, and one person from that group died.
The CDC has mostly left it to the states to decide whether churches should close or not. It’s not hard to figure out why – who needs the hassle?
In Arkansas, the state banned indoor gatherings of more than 10 people, but exempted religious services.
Why? Because the state doesn’t want to tangle with godbotherers, or because the state actually thinks god will wipe out all contagion inside the church and also as far as the parking lot?
Kentucky and Kansas both had federal court rulings against their governors’ orders to temporarily ban mass gatherings at religious services.
Getting the virus at the supermarket would be silly, but getting it at church would be ad majorem dei gloriam.
Yes, we’re talking about reopening with regular face-to-face classes in the fall, with social distancing. To have students an appropriate distance apart in my classroom, you could have six students. Most of our classrooms will become too small to hold college classes with that criterion, and the one or two rooms that are big enough to hold an entire class…well, we can’t all have the room, can we? There are, like, three in the entire school.