Hate that. Statistically inevitable, but still hate it.
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â WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) â NC Rep. Keith Kidwell, who serves District 79 and Beaufort County, announced on Friday that he is in the hospital after his wife was diagnosed with COVID-19. It has since been learned both have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
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Kidwell has been vocal about not wearing a mask. He is the chief sponsor of House Bill 572, which would not allow Gov. Roy Cooper to issue an executive order to require vaccination. The bill passed the NC House in May but has not moved further in the NC Senate.â
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Barrettâs bad in many ways, but clearly not in every way. Isnât she a really conservative Catholic? The Catholic Church, as a rule, doesnât have a problem with vaccines, and the Popeâs been pretty vocal about how people should get vaccinated.
Also, here in Finland the health authorities are saying that at the moment they arenât planning for any third booster shots for the general population this fall, and that getting as many people vaccinated with two doses is the important thing. Immunocompromised people should be given a booster, however.
This seems pretty reasonable to me, as two doses should massively reduce cases needing hospitalization, and deaths, among the people without immune system problems, and we wouldnât be taking up vaccines that could be better used by immunizing more people in poorer countries. Of course, Finlandâs a small country (five and a half million people) so our global impact isnât much either way, but itâs a morally sound approach if you ask me.
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vaccine skeptic? I would choose much harsher language.,
It is unclear whether Burke has received the vaccine, but speaking at the May 2020 Rome Life Forum, Burke said that âvaccination itself cannot be imposed, in a totalitarian manner, on citizens.â He also quoted groups that suggested that COVID-19 vaccines inject âa kind of microchipâ that allow citizens to âbe controlled by the state regarding health and about other matters which we can only imagine.â
The cardinal also said that âit is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of the cell lines of aborted fetuses,â adding that the state âis not the ultimate provider of health. God is.â
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The German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) advocates Corona vaccinations for all children and adolescents from the age of twelve.
Based on new data, especially from the American vaccination programme with almost ten million vaccinated children and adolescents, possible risks of vaccination for this age group can now be assessed more reliably, the panel said.
ETA: Summer holidays already ended in some states, and are ending in others.
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I donât understand how the American Catholic Church is so out of step with the Vatican. Arenât they supposed to follow the popeâs teachings?
And itâs not just Francis, but also his much more conservative predecessor that isnât a science-denying nutjob
I guess God was tired of sending Cardinal Burke all those boats and helicopters.
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How long before he gets religion about vaccines?
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Well God and the ventilator at this moment.
Thoughts and prayers.
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I gave up on thinking like this because people in the US prove on a regular basis that they arenât true followers of anything or anyone. Theyâll say that they believe in and will follow a particular leader, until they disagree with what the leader asks them to do. We see it in religion, politics, and business all the time.
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The Daily Beast on Cardinal Burke:
The 73-year-old cardinal has shown himself to be a COVID-19 denier, publicly scoffing at Italyâs strict lockdown measures during the height of the pandemic and was even seen strolling around Rome mask-free even when face coverings were mandated outside. He was the subject of a brief Italian news report that showcased Americans defying Italyâs anti-COVID measures, telling the newspaper that closing Catholic churches and social outdistancing was âun-Godly.â
Burke has been one of Pope Francisâ harshest critics, teaming up with Stever Bannon and conservative Italian politician Matteo Salvini to condemn Francis on issues such as immigration and homosexuality. He was also tapped to be the spiritual director of a failed venture by Bannon to develop an alt-right academy in an ancient monastery in the foothills of Rome, which has been curtailed by the Italian government.
Pope Benedict XVI, himself a conservative, tapped Burke to be a cardinal in 2010, but Francis almost immediately demoted him from his high-ranking Vatican position as head of the justice department in 2014. He has since rallied conservatives to question the legitimacy of Francisâ papacy through the publication of dubia, or doubts, about what the pope has preached.
Burke also famously refused to grant Holy Communion to former Secretary of State John Kerry over his stance on abortion rights and actively campaigned against the election of Catholic Joe Biden, warning voters that he is ânot a Catholic in good standing.â In a statement on his website ahead of the 2020 election, Burke wrote that voters should stick with Donald Trump because âa Catholic may not support abortion in any shape or form because it is one of the most grievous sins against human life and intrinsically evil, and therefore to in any way support the act is a mortal sin.â
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It seems their God has responded strikingly: he has smote Burke with covid, and not the Pope. HmmmmâŚ
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Yahoo reprint
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