Went to Target today and had an funny encounter with Karen greeter
? These people are stupid!
So as I entered Karen greeter asked me if I wanted a mask....
Me: "No thanks!"
Her with a dirty look and attitude: "You know a couple of employees from this store have died from COVID so you should be careful!"
Me: "I bet they were wearing masks weren't they?"
Her: silence DIRTY LOOK INTENSIFIES
I had the opposite experience today. My pastor went to a funeral of another pastor who died of COVID. This deceased pastor wouldn’t wear a mask, so now our pastor is doubling down on mask enforcement. I reminded him that God has our days numbered and knows when we are to come home. People have been dealing with this for a year and we all have the right to determine our own level of risk. Pastor was very mad. Then I said I was not going to wear a mask during worship and it is wrong to coerce people to do something they believe is wrong, that maybe the answer was that I just not be in the sanctuary for worship. He didn’t argue, which is good, because I have loads of data (thanks to my frens here on GW) to prove masks don’t work.
I know I am not going to convince him—ever. Data does not ever convince the brainwashed. But what makes me incredibly sad is how this stupid issue has divided people so profoundly. WHAT DOES IT MATTER?! If you want to wear a mask, then do it, but also let me do what I believe it right.
My large church here in Phoenix Arizona has been open the entire time and never had a mask mandate.
All we do is take reasonable precautions like providing and sanitizer especially before doing the Lord's supper. During the first month of this we also asked our Frontline healthcare workers that were members of our church to temporarily refrain from coming to service until we all had more data to reduce the risk. And those persons were personally assisted for their spiritual and physical needs by our Deacons.
We also of course asked anyone not feeling well too avoid coming to service and let us know if they needed anything.
Not only did we have zero transmissions through church service our congregation also essentially doubled in size from people leaving unfaithful churches.
The Bible explicitly tells us to quarantine the sick, not the healthy.
We never used any masks and no one ever got sick.