As churches reopen, outbreaks are sprouting and some are keeping doors shut

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

At a church in Sacramento, California, that has been closed for in-person services since March, congregants occasionally still stop by to pray outside and try to capture a sense of fellowship they dearly miss.

n Nashville, Tennessee, the pastor of an Anglican church has been handing out Communion in the parking lot for weeks.

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None of those are ideal options, but they beat becoming the source of an outbreak of COVID-19.

Almost 40 places of worship and religious events have been linked to more than 650 U.S. cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to tracking by the New York Times. Along with the nationwide surge in infections that has followed the loosening of restrictions aimed at combating the virus, outbreaks connected to churches have sprouted at several spots.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-dangerous-environment-as-churches-reopen-outbreaks-are-sprouting-and-some-are-keeping-doors-shut/ar-BB16TEUU?li=BBnb7Kz

[Trenzalore]

1. Next to a bar

A church is the perfect environment for the virus to spread.

[rzemanfl]

4. Some churches have bars. n/t

[Trenzalore]

5. I went to the wrong churches.

[rzemanfl]

6. I never went to church, but I have been in church bars. n/t

[paleotn]

2. 40 places and 650 cases...that we know of...

Tracking in some states, particularly red states, has been less than comprehensive. We really have no idea how many cases are related to church services.

[Mariana]

3. Churches are pestholes.

They're probably even worse than bars. Stay the hell out of churches and bars!

[Vogon_Glory]

7. I'm a believer and I miss my church services

I fear that outdoor services with face masks are the best we can hope for a while.

While I'm no fan of the right-wing theology preached at so-called "Cowboy churches," I suspect that their choice of an outdoor venue is probably safer than being indoors.

[lapfog_1]

8. they all gonna be rap-tured

And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a virus from Mars
And you try to run but it's got a gun
And it stops you dead and infects your head
And then you're infected with virus from Mars
You go out at night, infectin' cars
You infect Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercury's and Subaru's
And you don't stop, you keep on infectin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and infect the bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe too toe
Don't move to slow, 'cause the virus from Mars
Is through with cars, it's infectin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna infect 'em all
Churchs too