Religion Kills: Grandmother of 4 Dies from Coronavirus Caught at Church

Sad. If only they had been warned about public congregation. Those damned Chinese and their Chinese Virus! They're godless, you know!

All of her church-ey friends and relatives will just say "it's God's will."

Thoughts and prayers 😷🙏🏻

But Jesus posed to be protectin 'em and stuff.

Awwww, lawd, praise HIM.

It’s a blessing in disguise! She went to Church so she could be close to Jesus, and one she’s that much closer sooner.

now, not one ^

“did not suffer from any severe preexisting conditions, but did have diabetes.”

They have said all along that diabetes was a risk factor in having complications.

Nobody ever said Southern Baptists were smart.

Diabetes is a huge risk factor for everything. It’s like obesity. It makes everything worse.

Hmm. The Episcopal bishop of California ordered churches to close almost two weeks ago. She also ordered parishes to update their phone trees and to check up on every church members' wellbeing -With frequent checks on the elderly and those with high risk for complications. Clearly the more Christian thing to do would have been to keep gathering every Sunday and pass around the chalice, so that everyone could meet Jesus sooner!

She has a sweet face,and Im sure her children and grandchildren are hurting right now .As an aside , remember when AIDS first hit we all swore only poppers users and those who had lots of STDs could get it ? Thats how I feel about this so called "pre existing" bullshit they are pushing.

If she'd stayed home and masturbated to a Jackie Collins novel she might still be alive.

She died on Wednesday.

While going to church surrounded in close proximity by a lot of strangers was a poor choice, it means she likely contracted the disease BEFORE the seriousness of the situation had truly hit.

Rome, Georgia is not a metropolis where the urgency for social distancing would have been a top priority. Given the incubation period and the time for the illness to kill her, it's likely that she would have come in contact and become infected a while ago.

Average time from infection to serious complications is five days.

Why does diabetes make you more susceptible to Coronavirus?

Diabetes depresses the autoimmune system. It also causes damage to the circulatory system, liver, and kidneys. As a result, it increases the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes.

This really sucks. I’m so sorry this poor woman died. And she wasn’t even able to breathe on her own. That’s a horrible way to die.

I’m in Georgia, and of course, people here are really stubborn, and even attempt shaming anyone who made the decision to self shelter in place.

I’ve been home for nearly 2 weeks. I made the decision to do so, because I understand that MANY out here will not.

Finally, today, they put a shelter in place requirement for our county. I knew that it would eventually happen, but I decided to be smart about this, and do it before the mandate.

It sucks, because you’re stuck in the house, and I personally, get very antsy after a few days. I’ve been in a horrible mood, because of shit happening in my household, but hey, it beats getting gravely ill, and dying.

Allegedly, police has refused been told to ticket anyone driving or walking around, without a very legitimate reason, such as procurement of food, toilet paper, or medications. They will also allow you having a doctor’s appointment.

The mandate is on for 14 days. Now I’m going nuts. 14 days. So what happens after that? Another 14 days? Because we’re still going to be exposed to this shit, regardless.

This is really mentally taxing, and for the first time in a long time, I’m actually scared.

[quote]Average time from infection to serious complications is five days.

This statement is not true unless there has been a significant revision. While the MEDIAN incubation period is 5 days, that is the time before the first symptoms appear. The length of time and how quickly someone deteriorates with "serious complications" would be longer.

Also, the median incubation period may be longer or shorter than the average.

[quote]There were 181 confirmed cases with identifiable exposure and symptom onset windows to estimate the incubation period of COVID-19. The median incubation period was estimated to be 5.1 days (95% CI, 4.5 to 5.8 days), and 97.5% of those who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days (CI, 8.2 to 15.6 days) of infection. These estimates imply that, under conservative assumptions, 101 out of every 10 000 cases (99th percentile, 482) will develop symptoms after 14 days of active monitoring or quarantine.

[quote]This work provides additional evidence for a median incubation period for COVID-19 of approximately 5 days, similar to SARS.

R17 Canada here, its been a week self-isolating and I took another week earlier because I could see where things were going. Some here think its only another 1-2 weeks. They are very wrong. It will be all of April at minimum, May-June is likely enough, and its longer if we get some nasty surprises as well as summer not being the help that some hope it will be.

But this doesn't mean we have to act like we're crowbarred into our homes. Typically, we should expect we can go for walks, for example. I'm thankful I live in the middle of an urban farm so for hours I can act like I'm not stuck 'at home'. We also have many friends that play video games so we keep in touch through those, including hosted streamed 'game shows' we play through our phones (Jackbox packs, if you're curious). As this goes on, I'm sure I'll return to advancing my online web development courses and projects, and I'm trying to convince my partner to make a space in our home for exercise we can do together. As new norms form, I'm also sure there will be better collections of accessible online-work-from-home jobs that people can snatch up as a new 'gig' economy of sorts. If people are compliant, I have hopes that locations like beaches and parks can have some openness to the public, albeit with supervision and laws for distancing.

Its not all doom. I'm more dreadful about the numbers of permanent damage and deaths to parts of the world that fail their pandemic measures.

Taking walks is what's keeping me sane right now. My workplace is closed, the gym is closed, bars, restaurants etc. I have nothing to do so going out and walking every day gets me up and out and keep me occupied. It's also exercise in place of the gym.

[quote]poppers users and those who had lots of STDs could get it ?

Honey, I was alive back then. Those were called sluts and easy pieces. Of course they got the AIDS first.

It's okay, this is what God wanted

Every church around me, in the South, has gone to online only worship. The congregants of these other churches should wake-up and understand that any church that doesn't move to online only, doesn't care about their congregation. What they care about is money because people tend to give more in person than through online giving. My large church, cancelled in-person worship weeks ago, the large choir is down to only four people spread out six feet apart. The only thing left, in person, is the food bank and then they place it in your trunk instead of handing it to you.

What is it with Southerners? Do they find nobility in dying for their church? I'm seriously asking.

For many people, especially widowed women, the church is their home, a place where they feel cared for. They really believe in the message of fellowship and the weekly meetings. Catholics care less about the socialization of Sunday service. Many leave before the service is over. But, in many Protestant denominations, the social aspect is key. Sometimes, it leads to their demise.

Please remind religious people that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, not because of inhospitality. Who is the chief offender today? "Build the Wall" Republicans. Tell them God is punishing the country with the virus because of the policies of the Republican Party. If we were spotless, then the virus would pass over us, as we are entering the Passover season.

Try that text again, r26...

The plague has come as predicted and will affect both believers and non-believers. The country needs revival.

Since I don't particularly like people, don't like to go outside, and do a lot of reading, I have no problem with the quarantine.

When I read of people freaking out over having to stay at home I would think "What's wrong with them?"

Then I remember I'm the exception not the rule.

The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have come to epitomize moral depravity and cruelty. As we read in this week’s Torah portion, G‑d’s only recourse was to completely destroy them and their environs.

Scripture is characteristically sparse when telling us of their failures, only saying that “the people of Sodom were bad, sinning to G‑d very much.”1 Talmudic and Midrashic sources give us a much fuller account of the hair-raising wickedness and godlessness that characterized these towns.

The sins of the Sodomites stemmed from their intense selfishness, their unwillingness to part with anything they possessed.

The sages of the Misnah teach:7

One who says, “What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours"—this is a median characteristic; others say that this is the character of Sodom.

The every-man-for-himself attitude may seem harmless, but as these stories reveal, it will ultimately lead to true evil.

While the cities of Sodom have long receded into the past, the mentality they epitomized is alive and well. Our job is to uproot and destroy this mindset wherever we can, replacing it with love and goodwill.

Sodomite Hospitality The Sodomites enjoyed a relatively high standard of living. Regarding Sodom, the Torah tells us that the entire plain was “well-watered . . . like the garden of G‑d,”2 and it follows that the crops were plentiful and good. The selfish Sodomites did not want to share this bounty with outsiders. To this end, they enacted laws and took great pains to repel travelers.

R14, anyone getting off on a Susan Collins novel is probably already dead.

Sorry, R14. I was directing that to R12.