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Advice for Churches from the Surgeon General: Preparing Your Church for Coronavirus

By Filings on Thu, 03/05/20
Church & Ministry
Coronavirus
Health

“The Surgeon General’s advice for churches: good hygiene, and it’s time to ‘limit touching, especially hand-to-hand.’” - CToday

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Aaron Blumer

NewBest info

Thu, 03/05/20

Seems premature if you’re in a rural area where there aren’t cases yet. … but I’m not the Surgeon General.

Highly recommend, for tracking good hard data on Cronovirus:

Johns Hopkins interactive map… https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd402994…

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

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Bert Perry

NewWell, I guess that puts the kibosh....

Fri, 03/06/20

….on my church’s effort to revive the “holy kiss”. (j/k)

Seriously, good advice, and one thing that argue is “hanging out there” is what the approach ought to be for a fairly contagious and often lethal pathogen. I’d argue that we ought to be differing quite a bit from how we handle ordinary diseases and perhaps set up treatment centers outside our ordinary hospital network so we can isolate the pathogen in question from larger hospital populations. (maybe use all those empty Sears and Kmart stores around the country?)

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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  • “Mohler argues the vaccine should not present a moral dilemma to Christians”

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