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Saturday Coronavirus Briefing
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Holy Mass for Saturday, March 21
My parish has never done this before, but I am hoping they continue it after the quarantine is over. This is my pastor, Father Daniel, who is from Colombia. His accent may take some getting used to, but he always has wise words.
I especially invite my non-Catholic readers to watch, if only to see for yourselves how rich with Scripture and prayer the Holy Mass is.
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DEPRIVATION: “One thing every Catholic should agree about regarding the suspension of public Masses in multiple dioceses across the globe: we now will experience the deprivation that our brethren in the Middle East and China experience on a daily basis. Unite your sufferings with theirs, and PRAY!” —Matthew Balan
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LOVE THY NEIGHBOR: Christians fed and housed Jews when doing so could get them shot. Surely we can find ways to help each other now.
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS: I listened to Trump’s daily virus briefing yesterday. The reporters reminded me of little children, continually cycling back to whining about how Mean Orange Man says we is doing crappy job and hurtz us feelingz. I wanted to reach into the screen and smack them upside the head. “You’re in the WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM! Grow UP!”
Meanwhile, our excellent president let his team speak, which is something I continue to admire about him and have not forgotten Obama didn’t do. Two things he said that stuck with me are, “We’ll get through this” and “We can replace the money; we can’t replace the people.” Also, he praised the private sector for proactively contacting them with offers to switch manufacturing capacity to produce needed materials, like masks and respirators, and that the need to self-quarantine will last at least through the end of March.
New unemployment claims surged last week as people in non-critical jobs were laid off. We need to keep these people in mind and carefully avoid succumbing to “me first” isolationism, even as we practice self-quarantine and wonder how we’re going to pay bills without the usual pay checks.
In GOOD news, chloroquine – a common and inexpensive malaria drug – appears to be working well against the Chinese Coronavirus. Dr. Fauci said it’s still preliminary and we won’t know more until it’s used on a lot of people who have the virus. There are also a home test kit and a vaccine being moved through the FDA approval process.
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TRUMP LEADS: The following is from a White House email – Defeating this virus will take a historic partnership between our public and private sectors.
- America and Canada will halt all non-essential travel across their border.
- The Defense Department is massively expanding medical resources, making 5 million respirator masks and 2,000 ventilators available for use.
- FEMA is now activated in every region of the country and at the highest level.
- Navy hospital ships are being deployed to impacted areas.
- The Department of Housing & Urban Development as well as Health & Human Services are suspending foreclosures and evictions until the end of April.
- President Trump held a phone meeting with 130 CEOs to hear directly what they need to respond to this crisis.
Together, America will prevail.
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Saint Corona: No joke! – There actually is a St. Corona. AND she is one of the patron saints of pandemics. AND her remains are in Northern Italy, the site of the first Covid 19 lockdown in EU.
TRUMP 2020: I am so often impressed by the genuine kindness of our president [3:49].
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COVID-19 SCIENCE: As the tweets suggest, there’s a lot of total crap being circulated about the Wuhan Coronavirus. The article linked below (h/t Bob) has the clearest, least politicized information I’ve seen.
In case you don’t go read the article and look at all the pretty graphs … he makes a good case for the likelihood that total U.S. deaths with this outbreak will be in the 3,000 range. By comparison, that’s about how many people die in auto accidents per month. And it’s half the number of babies who die in abortions per month.
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MISSING MASS: “I encourage those of you who cannot come to Mass, to stay home and read the Gospels, pray with your families, and to join yourself to the sacrifice of the Mass by making an act of spiritual communion.
“There are a number of prayers of spiritual communion that you can use, the one I like is simple: ‘I wish, my Lord, to receive you with the purity, humility, and devotion with which your most holy mother received you, with the spirit and fervor of the saints.’” – Archbishop Jose Gomez (Los Angeles)
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