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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChurches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.
The virus has infiltrated Sunday services, church meetings and youth camps. More than 650 cases have been linked to reopened religious facilities.Weeks after President Trump demanded that Americas shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed.
The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches that reopened cautiously with face masks and social distancing in the pews, as well as some that defied lockdowns and refused to heed new limits on numbers of worshipers.
Pastors and their families have tested positive, as have church ushers, front-door greeters and hundreds of churchgoers. In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another. In Florida, a teenage girl died last month after attending a youth party at her church.
More than 650 coronavirus cases have been linked to nearly 40 churches and religious events across the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, with many of them erupting over the last month as Americans resumed their pre-pandemic activities, according to a New York Times database.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/coronavirus-churches-outbreaks.html
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Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases. (Original Post)
Zorro
Jul 2020
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winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)1. Grift
Well you know it's hard to do the grift with empty pews
stopbush
(24,397 posts)2. The power of prayer...
JCMach1
(27,585 posts)3. As bad as, or worse than bars
LastDemocratInSC
(3,656 posts)6. Well, churches are worse than bars in many ways.
Always have been.
JCMach1
(27,585 posts)9. from your mouth to God's ears
Ohiogal
(32,144 posts)4. I'll just bet it's a lot more than 650.
Tech
(1,776 posts)5. Isn't that surprising. Is this a good time to say " bless their hearts"?
Theres a very fine line between protecting the health and safety of people, and protecting the right to worship, said George Murdock, a county commissioner in northeastern Oregon, where the largest outbreak in the state has been traced to a Pentecostal church in a neighboring county. Its one weve been walking very nervously all along.
NOBODY is attacking their right to worship. They just have to do it in a way that is safe right now. The churches that are doing online services and stay-in-your-car parking lot services are doing just fine.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)8. Is anyone surpised?
I'm not.
malaise
(269,256 posts)10. Some got some nice money
Check it out
Blecht
(3,803 posts)11. These monsters learned nothing from Korea
The main source of an early spread in South Korea came from a church. Korea learned and worked hard early. The US, not so much.
Some data:
South Korea
Population: 51 million
Total cases: 13,244
Texas
Population: Just under 30 million
Cases - single day (yesterday): 10,028