The Quiet Christian wrote:
...They discussed going to South America but the fear of the Spanish kept them in English claims.

www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200622/covid-19-antibodies-can-disappear-after-2-3-months

John UK wrote:
I would like to see capital punishment brought back.

Final remarks: "I only heartily wish, that what, in Compassion to your Soul, I have now said to you upon this sad and solemn Occasion, by exhorting you in general to Faith and Repentance, may have that due Effect upon you, that thereby you may become a true Penitent. And therefore having now discharged my Duty to you as a Christian, by giving you the best Counsel I can, with respect to the Salvation of your Soul, I must now do my Office as a Judge. The Sentence that the Law hath appointed to pass upon you for your Offences, and which this Court doth therefore award, is,

That you, the said Stede Bonnet, shall go from hence to the Place from whence you came, and from thence to the Place of Execution, where you shall be hanged by the Neck till you are dead.
And the God of infinite Mercy be merciful to your Soul."

The Welfare State is a thieving, destructive, wasteful corruption of the Biblical doctrine of charity which, like opium, more often destroys than relieves its clientele. It has served Progressives well in expanding their constituencies, for what beneficiary would ever vote for a candidate supporting its contraction? This unsustainable Open Loop of "free" gov't benefits and the expansion of voters depending on it are like a Black Hole which cosmologists tell us irreversibly sucks in everything near it.

DKH wrote:
If you don’t know, the reformers built on the ideas of Augustine.

"Even if infection with the COVID-19 virus creates long-lasting immunity, a large number of people would have to become infected to reach the herd immunity threshold. Experts estimate that in the U.S., 70% of the population — more than 200 million people — would have to recover from COVID-19 to halt the epidemic."

ladybug wrote:
how does a healthy person not wearing a mask put the high risk who do wear a mask at risk? ...

ladybug wrote:
the 'at risk' are the elderly with underlying health conditons,

ladybug wrote:
Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection ..

So here, the "scientists" lied (contra 9th Commandment) in order to protect the mask supply. Going forward, why should we believe such authorities the next time they claim to speak as "scientists?"

"Lurker" is right; today, they're a bunch of spoiled punks who never experienced real, 3rd World or Dust-Bowl level poverty.

Mike wrote:
In my neck of the woods, it's astounding how inexpensive it is. 10000 gallons costs about $29.