I’ve spoken with my friend in more detail, and they estimate that they were infectious from maybe the second week of February, and are (with the benefit of hindsight) fairly sure from whom they got the virus.

Or maybe the notion that having faith is all about about getting away with being stupid?

The Trump-Covid business is all very curious. If he did have it, he clearly benefited from a monumental barrage of treatment and/or has been very lucky. Fortunately, if the whole show was meant to be a campaign ploy of some kind, it appears that many Americans are simply not ‘buying it’ – Biden-Harris is now polling at around the same level as Obama-Biden in 2008.

I keep thinking of VIneyard as a Calvary Chapel
You’re not too far off — John Wimber was affiliated with the Calvary Chapel empire for a little while. But they were not as big on “signs and wonders” as he wanted to be, so he went off on his own with the Vineyard churches (which already existed as a small group of churches, but took off under Wimber).

Greg Laurie can also trace his roots back to Calvary Chapel.

The False Prophets always suck up to The Beast.
“Where We Go One, So Go We All.”

PastorGregLaurieOfVineyard(TM)…

Just like PastorChuckSmithCalvaryChapelCostaMesa(TM) and PastorRaulReesCalvaryChapelWestCovina(TM), a regular feature on local Christianese AM Radio during my time in-country. I keep thinking of VIneyard as a Calvary Chapel; they sure scratched each others’ back on the AM airwaves with near-identical radio shows.

I remember having some sort of “anomalous flu” in late January. A couple days of fever kicking off a couple months of serous bronchitis. Very similar to a serious bronchitis I caught about two years before. Doc put me back on an albuterol inhaler “as needed”. I needed until around April.

My writing partner (the burned-out country preacher) also related that there was a similar anomalous flu going around about the same time where he was (rural central Pennsylvania).

Wrongly ‘reversing’ the idea that God’s wisdom is foolishness to ‘the
world’ (as in that which is worldly) is the result of putting man at the
centre of things instead of God, isn’t it?

I just chalk it up to “Holy Nincompoop Syndrome”, where the more stupid and ignorant you are, the more Holy you must be.

“FEAR ALWAYS WORKS!”
— Acting Mayor Bellwether, Zootopia

It was late in January, or maybe the very beginning of February when they were symptomatic, but early nevertheless! Just on the timing thing: there is a school of thought that Italy had its first case before 2019 was out.

I have to say that it is a bit odd that (if it is the case) there were a few very early cases a while before widespread transmission was evident, especially given how easily the virus is transmitted. On the other hand, most IC nurses are very busy during winter and probably find themselves almost exclusively in one of two places at any given time: on the ward or at home. And then there is misdiagnosis, of course (and my friend at the time assumed they had influenza).

I ought to see how they are in any case (I suspect they are under a lot of pressure again right now), and I will gently ask again about their brush with Covid-19! It is certainly all very interesting, to say the least …

Wow, that is very early then. I know there is a ton of speculation about the January E3 convention in California being an early super spreader event as well but I haven’t seen if there has been significant testing around it yet aside from one person.