Religion & Spirituality
Covid-19 continues to ramp up protests as the conversation shifts as to whether we should reopen economies yet or not. Political polarity popularizes again while the left argues that the right just want people to die, and the right argue that the left is attempting to implement their long awaited socialist agenda. Meanwhile, unemployment skyrockets and stock plummet to levels comparable the Great Depression. How should we engage this conversation as Christians and regain the credibility we are obviously losing? REFERENCES: 1. Covid-19 Stats: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 2. Tom Frieden outlines 4 phases for the economy to reopen https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/we-all-want-to-reopen-the-economy-but-it-wont-be-quick-or-easy/2020/04/13/8a281d7e-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html 3. Contact tracing is labor intensive and unemployment is projected to reach 16.4% by May https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/04/17/unemployment-rate-to-hit-16point4percent-in-may-says-economist.html 4. Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Resilience Roadmap https://www.pandemictesting.org/ 5. Ben Shapiro argues that state mandated temporary lockdown are constitutional and have been done before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9bvzKGezg 6. Dan Crenshaw and Bill Maher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGBJMDcras 7. Israel drug by Pluristem Terapeutics is being tested in the United States https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2020/april/israeli-covid-19-treatment-with-100-survival-rate-tested-on-first-us-patient 8. Dr Fauci says that the economy will not recover until Covid-19 is controlled https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/fauci-us-economy-wont-recover-until-coronavirus-controlled