Gerald O. Glenn, the bishop of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia urged his congregants to ignore social distancing guidelines prescribed by health authorities to combat the Coronavirus.
He said he would continue preaching his views “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
He died just before Easter after being exposed to the Coronavirus.
The Bishop’s wife has the virus as well.
This example alone should be a clue to those fringe science-denying loonies mostly living in the Trump Zone and Fox Island that this is a serious public health emergency that can touch anyone.
Unfortunately, that is not the case.
Protestors, some egged on by fringe Trump science-denying cultist disciples, in Red and Blue led states like Ohio and Michigan are walking the streets, blocking auto traffic and ignoring social distance guidelines, protesting the stay at home orders and demanding that their Governors (DeWine in Ohio and Whitmer in Michigan) open up their local economies and restore their “freedom.”
Even in Arizona with a Republican Governor and GOP controlled legislature, fringe nut job protestors will gather at the State Capitol on April 20 at “High Noon” to demand the reopening of the Grand Canyon State’s society and economy.
There are even lawmakers like Indiana Congressional Representative Trey Hollingsworth and Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick who have commented that it is better that more people die in order to save the economy.
The people who organize these protests and the elected officials who put profits over lives need to be ignored or better yet, voted out so they never officially serve the public again.
Everyone wants the economy to reopen.
Everyone wants to be able to leave their homes when they want.
Everyone wants to be able to go to work.
Everyone wants to be able to go to the movies or concerts or the ball game with their families and friends.
While everyone wants life to return to normal, it is important that society not prematurely open and potentially create a second wave of the pandemic, needlessly endangering more people.
The people protesting should realize that. The irresponsible science-denying Trump Zone and Fox Island fringe advocates egging them on should know better as well.
To those people that plan on marching; please stop and do not do this. Ignore the fringe reactionaries telling you to disregard social distancing that will potentially endanger yourselves and others.
You will save lives (maybe your own) if you listen to the common-sense health guidelines, stay home, and serve the greater good.
Do the right thing.
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