COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 21
CHRIST HAS RISEN!!!
Today was a pretty good day. It was, after all, the beginning of the Resurrection Season. I went to a social-distancing prepared church and could actually take Eucharist. It felt so good to be in church again! I will probably go there until the lockdown is over, and if that means I need to drive 1 mile to get to Schaumburg, so be it!
According to the major, today's death toll is the lowest it has been in 6 days, so that is good news. On the other hand, I read horrible stories about how a Michigan woman lost her whole family to this virus, and a Louisiana man lost 10 relatives and friends. I am not ashamed to admit that these stories made me cry. There has been so much death the past week. A friend of mine recently lost his grandmother from COVID-19. Thankfully, my mother, wife, and grandmothers are all safe and relatively healthy, and so are my golden-year friends. I have suffered so much loss, yet I have barely become numb to it. Each loss is still a dagger to my heart.
While it seems as if the pandemic is winding down, there are still those who have their theories about the whole megillah. Some say that it is being prolonged because the government wants to remove our civil liberties. Some doubt this will ever be over, and some think, because of how severe COVID-19 is in African-American communities, that the virus is spread in a way as an attempt of genocide. Let us not indulge or obsess over rumors. First, this disease has attacked politicians just like everyone else. Why would they infect themselves just to control us? Second, COVID-19 will be controlled. Scientists worldwide are looking for cures and vaccines for this, and if God allowed them to dissipate or decimate polio, the Bubonic plague, typhus, typhoid, and cholera, it will only be a matter of time for COVID-19 with our technology. Alas, when the hospitals are so swamped that we must dedicate McCormick Place as a treatment center, surely the administrators will pressure politicians to take action. As for the African-American community, it is a paradox that 15% of the population accounts for 68% of the COVID-19 related deaths in Illinois. Is it lack of information in the poorest communities? Is it poor healthcare? Is it lack of trust in the government system? I do not know. Whatever the case, we must continue to think positively. One day, we will tell our children, nieces, and nephews about how we survived this. There is a lesson we must learn in all of this. Are we getting the message?
--Signing off.
Today was a pretty good day. It was, after all, the beginning of the Resurrection Season. I went to a social-distancing prepared church and could actually take Eucharist. It felt so good to be in church again! I will probably go there until the lockdown is over, and if that means I need to drive 1 mile to get to Schaumburg, so be it!
According to the major, today's death toll is the lowest it has been in 6 days, so that is good news. On the other hand, I read horrible stories about how a Michigan woman lost her whole family to this virus, and a Louisiana man lost 10 relatives and friends. I am not ashamed to admit that these stories made me cry. There has been so much death the past week. A friend of mine recently lost his grandmother from COVID-19. Thankfully, my mother, wife, and grandmothers are all safe and relatively healthy, and so are my golden-year friends. I have suffered so much loss, yet I have barely become numb to it. Each loss is still a dagger to my heart.
While it seems as if the pandemic is winding down, there are still those who have their theories about the whole megillah. Some say that it is being prolonged because the government wants to remove our civil liberties. Some doubt this will ever be over, and some think, because of how severe COVID-19 is in African-American communities, that the virus is spread in a way as an attempt of genocide. Let us not indulge or obsess over rumors. First, this disease has attacked politicians just like everyone else. Why would they infect themselves just to control us? Second, COVID-19 will be controlled. Scientists worldwide are looking for cures and vaccines for this, and if God allowed them to dissipate or decimate polio, the Bubonic plague, typhus, typhoid, and cholera, it will only be a matter of time for COVID-19 with our technology. Alas, when the hospitals are so swamped that we must dedicate McCormick Place as a treatment center, surely the administrators will pressure politicians to take action. As for the African-American community, it is a paradox that 15% of the population accounts for 68% of the COVID-19 related deaths in Illinois. Is it lack of information in the poorest communities? Is it poor healthcare? Is it lack of trust in the government system? I do not know. Whatever the case, we must continue to think positively. One day, we will tell our children, nieces, and nephews about how we survived this. There is a lesson we must learn in all of this. Are we getting the message?
--Signing off.
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