Nursing homes are a COVID virus’s paradise for superspread. Large numbers of high-risk “patients” in indoor close quarters, with underequipped, underpaid, overworked staff with little or no sick time benefits… Like 19th Century tenements, they’re tinderboxes for any contagion.

Remember the teens who would come up to old people, cough hard in their faces, and think this was all Very Funny? Not much difference.

… but the Mango Menace doesn’t want it, so we’re not going to get it until he is out of office.

While the Christians chorus “AAAAAAAA-MENNNNNNN!!!!!” to every word he Tweets.

How do you think Kenneth Copeland became the Richest Televangelist in the World?
(Except with him it was Social Security checks instead of COVID stimulus checks as “seed money” for Prosperity Gospel many-fold returns. Adding stimulus checks should push Copeland over the Billionaire mark.)

There is also a longstanding tradition in American Evangelicalism of tacking on some present-day fad as a “67th Book of the Bible”, i.e. Inspired Inerrant SCRIPTURE(TM). That despite the warning at the end of the Book of Revelation.

Previous 67th Books of the Bible have included Hal Lindsay’s Late Great Planet Earth, Watchman Nee, and Left Behind (actually the 57th to 88th Books). Why not Ayn Rand? After the 2008 elections, Atlas Shrugged was selling like the Twilight trilogy and John Galt Celebrity Impersonators were coming out of the woodwork; why not “… Except CHRISTIAN(TM)!” versions?

Anecdotal? How many evangelical bloggers have I read insisting that people should tithe over their entire stimulus checks to the church?

Ben hasn’t quite caught on to the idea that nobody HAS to die in this pandemic. People will die, despite precautions, but the virus really doesn’t choose its targets. It just goes where it can and does what it does–very efficiently. If there were fewer older people left, then more younger people would be dying.

An example of an anecdotal comment. ^^^

And the sheep that follow.