We certainly should not fear our own death, but we should protect the lives of neighbors, strangers, non-Christians, and non-believers. That’s a Christian perspective on social distancing.
That is one perspective that you could follow. But that presumes that the Wuhan Virus is real and not merely a political fabrication birthed in the CCP’s Ministry of Truth to bring in the next totalitarian regime.
I will be very frank: what I see is that most people who say they “distrust the media” actually have a lot of trust in any source of information that confirms their own biases.
True. This happens all too often from the Mainstream Media on the Left like MSNBC, CNN etc, to the Right like FOX, BREITBART, etc. People pick what they want to hear and listen to the exclusion of all others. I do not listen to either left or right mainstream media. I have a personal aversion to Rush Limbaugh and other talking heads on the radio. Youtube is equally dubious and must be filtered through a lens of suspicion, with the caveat that it sometimes allows news not permitted in the regular cycle of hullabaloo.
Trusting the Roman Catholic Church when she says what you want to hear but choosing to “trust” the Orthodox Church when she says what you want to hear is not trust. That is thinly-disguised willfulness. That is only another form of cafeteria belief, isn’t it? Who does that leave with ultimate authority over you, after all? You, that’s who.
Yes, I am willful. I am a sinner, imperfect, responsible more or less for every sin you can lay on me. In hindsight, I probably should have saved my post on Catholic-Orthodox relations for a separate, less incendiary thread. However, my point remains, I believe the two parts of the Church need each other, just as a husband needs his wife, and a wife needs her husband, for the two to become one and bear the fruit of many faithful children.
The “medical professionals” who don’t believe in containment don’t tend to be those who have to contend with the failure to contain an epidemic.
There is evidence to the contrary, especially with the inflation of the numbers of deaths attributed to Wuhan Virus, when many patients had different symptoms or diseases.
Again, and I am done here after this post, since we will simply have to agree to disagree, there are many different perspectives out there, even among the Doctors and nurses on the “frontlines”, not mention equally if not more so, valid perspectives from Hierarchs and Clergy, politicians and lawyers, and also many people worldwide who are concerned about breach of basic human rights. Peace be with you.
Catholicism is compatible with Orthodoxy if the Orthodox return to Rome, but according to many zealots, Orthodoxy is not compatible with Catholicism unless Catholicism changes fundamental doctrines and dogma held since time immemorial in the Western Church. We poor Orthodox can be so myopic and conflate Eastern with Orthodox and Western with Catholic. But not all of us see things that way. There may be hope yet for peaceable reunion. Let’s pray for it.
