Dear Father Ben,
It has been a wonderful, fulfilling challenge to stay in touch with Jesus, my creator, brother and redeemer during this time of the pandemic. I feel closer to Him than ever before and always want Him at my side. This is a very good thing, this renewed connection.
As I read the letter to the members of you church, which stated that for the good of the whole, I would not be welcome because of my age, even though I am healthy and have no signs of viral illness. I am guessing, but these orders probably came from the Bishop and of course I will abide and in addition will give my gifts to Food for the Poor, Compassion Beyond Borders and the local Back Pack Food Program.
Because of the ideology of the left there has been a lot of disinformation concerning the virus. They have a socialist agenda and are using the Wuhan Virus as a tool to control.
James Madison once said, “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.” The coronavirus fascists have succeeded in cementing their illogical, immoral, and illegal policies through the prism of false information about the timing of the virus, the specific nature and severity of the overall fatality rate, the number of actual deaths, and the utility (or perhaps harm) of lockdown policies in actually mitigating deaths – all the while obfuscating the much higher collateral deaths and damage caused by the lockdown itself. Every day we learn new information demonstrating the lies driving lockdown. Truth is still being ignored.
Children 0 to 17 are the least vulnerable and those eligible should be going to school according to science. If sick they, like always, should stay home, which is good common sense. The old are the most vulnerable and should be protected, but not locked down into isolation. In NYC over sixty percent of the deaths were occurring in apartments and homes where people had self-quarantined. They were not all due to the virus, but to their inability or fear of going to a doctor or emergency room for care. This is sad as is the fact of putting infected Covid-19 patients in nursing homes for care, causing needless deaths and then blaming the president, instead of reading what he actually said.
In Michigan you may choose to have an abortion, but not an elective surgery; a tattoo, but not a haircut; a Walmart visit, but not a Mom and Pop store visit. A regular grocery store where the virus does not linger, as previously proclaimed, on items for two weeks.
I looked up social distancing and saw all the definitions which were about the same. Only one article mentioned the origin or the act and did not go on to explain that the concept had been rejected. Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians, not scientists: Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic research reports that the origin of this cult of “social distancing” being used for totalitarian lockdowns was the brainchild of a high schooler’s sociology paper in 2006, promoted by the Bush administration during the avian flu. I was widely mocked by the epidemiological community, including by Johns Hopkins, for “causing the potential for a “serious adverse outcome,”” thereby ensuring that “a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.”
How have we allowed such an illogical approach to crush our liberties, economy, hospitals, education, and criminal justice? How have we lost our freedoms? The answer is that the public is not getting the right information. That is why the political class is doing everything in its power to censor anyone who dares question the idolatry of this lockdown cult. As James Madison warned, “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
I shall be praying for you and your congregation, while being patient in waiting. I wish you well. Be at Peace. Steve
Steve Haarman 