C S. Lewis on the Corona Virus

[mechdriver]

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cs-lewis-coronavirus/

 

[RangeSquirrel]

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cs-lewis-coronavirus/

Good food for thought.
There is nothing new under the sun. Famine, pestilence and war have been with us since right after the dawn of creation. Why should we in our 'enlightened age' think ourselves immune?
We can plan and prepare, as well we should; however we should know that we are not and will never be sufficient in ourselves.

Load'em cheap, stack'em deep.

 

[BigWaylon]

Title is a little misleading.

 

[Ferrisfan]

The Spanish flu started as a highly contagious but mild virus in the spring of 1918, but mutated into a killer during a second wave in the fall. We may still have a part 2 to this. Fun fact, those who had the mild version had immunity to the deadly version.

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

"The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together". This is a lost art.

 

[JakeH]

They quit making people like that.

 

[mechdriver]

They quit making people like that.

Actually our society discourages critically thinking and discussion of absolutes. There are men like him today but they are not respected by the public at large and are disparaged by the same media that is whipping the sheeple into a frenzy over every perceivable threat to a humanistic view of self worth.

 

[random]

...begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation

That seems to be the norm in our society, hyper-panic over everything. Maybe my memory is bad, but I don't recall this level of panic and hysteria ever happening before, even during the post 9-11 days, or the anthrax scare, etc.

And the media certainly doesn't help.

 

[RangeSquirrel]

...begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation

And the media certainly doesn't help.

It's an election year. Russian collusion didn't work. Impeachment didn't work. Ukraine didn't work, and if they push it will bring down their candidate. The economy is recovered and booming. Please recall the words of Winston Churchill and later Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff to Obama - "Don't let a good crisis go to waste."
Recall also during one of the government shutdowns Obama famously said "...to make it hurt." National parks including veterans memorials were shutdown and barricaded against entry.
The media portrayed President Trump as racist for banning travel from China, but then when he banned travel from other infected countries they portrayed it as too little too late.
Am I a wackadoodle conspiracy theorist? Time will tell. I will be happy to be wrong on this. I would be thrilled for the media and various 3 letter agencies to be genuinely working on behalf of the US citizens.


Load'em cheap, stack'em deep.

 

[RangeSquirrel]

It's an election year.....

Literally 2 minutes after I hit post I get this YouTube notification from United Spot:



Load'em cheap, stack'em deep.

 

[fieldgrade]

One of my very favorite authors. Thanks for posting.

...and another of my favorite authors, King David, specifically addresses this pestilence. Psalm 91