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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Sister, media is a powerful tool, probably the main reason why the old Apostolic elders frowned on television, newspapers, and radio programs. I live in Hurricane alley. So I know what hysteria looks like, especially from Northerners who have never dealt with a hurricane. I only get my hurricane stats from NOAA, and a few other hurricane watchers. But NEVER trust the mainstream media because it is all ENTERTAINMENT. It is all about beating us in the head with fear. We are supposed to have a sound mind, to walk circumspectly before the Lord. Not to give into the melodrama which the world around us feeds off of. If you look at the stats for this coronavirus you have a better chance being eaten by a large dinosaur then dying from this virus. So my question is why whip up the people to the point that they are shaking like a puppy passing a peach pit.
My lands, our supermarkets are ransacked, and frankly if you do the math, they have nothing to worry about. I have people in our church who will be impacted by this hysteria locally. Cruise ship industry, school closings, building department closing, and local event cancelations. I mean seriously, cooler heads in leadership should prevail. Yet, gone are the days of manly male leadership who weren’t afraid to tell the people how the cow ate the cabbage. But now we have politicking all across the board. Trump said that the media was blowing this whole thing out of proportion? Well I just heard of that this morning. If he did say it, then bravo, because we needed someone to say something at the top. Tom Hanks and his wife has it? Who cares!!! How on earth did we need to know that? What does it matter to the billion of us who may never get it or any other virus? If Obama was president or some other liberal progressive this would be a different story. Sad really, how the people of this world get puppeted around by the politics of America.
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Well, Tom and Rita are news to those who follow all that, and to their family, I'm sure they DO care.
We have positive Covid-19 in Michigan so temporary social distancing doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
We can agree on the hype and hysteria... people are in panic mode for sure.
I'm trying to reach for positive aspects of this... guess I'm weird, eh? But maybe we can take this time to slow our lives down.
I believe that in the midst of the uncertainly the world is experiencing the Church can be a beacon of hope. We can speak life and not death. We can show kindness in the craziness around us in the grocery store. We can encourage someone in a long line that they don't need to panic... God's got this! We can be what we need to be in this troubling time for so many who don't know the Way.
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