This is a loaded question. Most of the changes brought on by the pandemic were done so by non-elected bureaucrats. I learned what I needed to learn about diseases from Wal-Mart ironically. I was a cashier we touched all sorts of nasty cash and what came over our conveyor belts including raw hamburger meat. There were times I had to immediately close my register so I could wash my hands. Sometimes that wasn’t an option. There were times after this happened several times that I simply kept antibacterial soap in my pockets or in my vest pockets.
Adapting to Covid meant giving in to the government measures that they had no right to take from us. When we were right in the middle of all of this Covid I was at church with my parents I was so proud of our church we didn’t take the preventative measures the health inspector said we had to. Church is an essential way of Christians life forsaking the assembly of other Christians is paramount to disobeying God. Zoom meetings and livestreams were necessary for those who were sick, but for those not being in the pew was God’s mandate. Even during the 3rd Century Measles and Typhus outbreaks of Carthage, Bishop Cyprianus held church services. If they can do that in 3 BC not long after Christ’s death what has happened to our generations of Christians that we are so flimsy to flake at a health inspector’s word who was not officially elected.
In Sunday School a few times this year we have discussed in a different church setting how the church in general did when the government came knocking on us to close up our doors. There were two different conversations about this and different points brought up in each case. However, like I said different churches did different things believing the government would come down on them. My church at that time after the initial time it took for my family to grieve after my Grandma’s demise in the Nursing Home for an end of life condition not affected by Covid forced our grieving process to be much more different than we ever expected. There was no viewing we ended up Celebrating her Life a year later with much more control over the situation.
Covid is not something to take over one’s life and adapt towards. It’s nothing more than the flu in all honesty. Like it has always been the elderly are more susceptible to it and those with no immune systems, but we have seen what some of the simplest and cheapest medicines could do to bring back ones health from this disease. God told us through scripture nothing could separate His love from us not even a disease can do that… yet the government and their bureaucrats convinced the whole of us otherwise so easily with fear.
My Grandma had been on her deathbed for a year, but we knew in December that it was coming and we spent as much time as possible with her. Covid snatched away the funeral she deserved and we deserved to grieve as an entire family and friends group. We didn’t have that because of adaptability in the first few weeks of the Covid scare. She died alone without her family… would God have wanted that for his Rose after all the love and attention we tried to give her.
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