We humans are no more able to stop Covid than we able to stop earthquakes

It has indeed been heart wrenching to hear some of the interviews from the many small business owners who have been so adversely affected by our own government’s Covid-19 policy.
By Alex Kane
Published 23rd Oct 2020, 19:45 BST
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A policy riven with so many inconsistencies it is hard not to conclude that, far from being guided by the data (if indeed any such meaningful data even exists) it is rather directed by way of assumptions and guesswork on the part of a select number of so called experts, who in turn feed their information into a computer whereupon we are all at the mercy of whatever ‘model’ comes out the other end.

Dare I suggest that the reason we cannot accept the simple fact that Covid 19 is a disease much like the flu (albeit a potentially more lethal strain) is because the heightened mortality figures have threatened man’s delusion of invincibility and his belief that he is master of his own destiny.

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This in turn has caused a blind panic among a fickle populace and their Godless leaders as they grope in the dark for quick fix solutions.

While in the short term individuals should take sensible precautions during periods of outbreak to protect the elderly and vulnerable in their midst (as they would with any contagious disease) and while in the long term a medical solution by way of a vaccine and or medication may lessen the effects of Covid 19, the fact remains that as things stand, we humans are no more equipped to halt this disease than we are to prevent earthquakes. (Luke 21:11)

Ken McFarland, Omagh

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