Showing posts with label spanish flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spanish flu. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Christian and Conspiracies

There seems to a habit of some in the Christian community to use phrases like “outrageous conspiracy theorist ” when referring to people, such as myself, who have taken the time to explore alternate models to explain the phenomena we are observing, namely that some people are getting sick and dying of something. Granted that there are some who listen to a convincing sounding hypothesis and immediately believe it is true and nefarious. 
My position is that any hypothesis that presents a new model should be considered and subject to experimentation. Interestingly enough, I have yet to talk to anyone who dogmatically adheres to the narrative and eschews alternate theories that has actually done much research on either spectrum. They accept the narrative because everyone “knows” there is a virus. Conversely there is the other type that reject it because some other model satisfies their default persuasions.
For two months now I have been consuming copious amounts of information and what I am concluding is that there are copious amounts of information I have not even touched. However, it is clear to me that this destruction of our society and economy is not an appropriate response given the actual facts. 
Church leaders who use the term “outrageous conspiracy theories” when referring to hypotheses they are thoroughly ignorant of are at best weak minded leaders. If we believe that Satan is the lord of this world, that he prowls around seeking to devour, that he is a liar, the father of lies and the truth is not in him, and then we see the state telling us that we cannot meet with our family and friends, engage in corporate worship, but we can go to the liquor store or a gay bath house, that the only way we’ll be safe is to implement a contact tracking system and vaccinate everyone on the globe, nuanced thinkers should pause for a moment and wonder what is really going on.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Censored

My recent Facebook post of an article on the positive effects of open air therapy experienced by Boston hospital during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was deemed in violation of the FB right-think standards. One wonders why. There are only two possible reasons.
  1. They find the photo of the open air hospital in violation.
  2. It was the suggestion I made that a profit driven pharmaceutical industry would be loath to recommend this therapy.
I choose door number two. It seems clear to me that any criticism of the multi-billion dollar "Big Pharma" juggernaut is verboten. We must not criticize our masters.