Virus-Happy Church Brings New COVID-19 Chaos to Plagued Tulsa

[My Pet Orangutan]

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Virus-Happy Church Brings New COVID-19 Chaos to Plagued Tulsa

A Tulsa-based megachurch was under fire this week after its pastor posted a video showing 2,500 congregants singing, many without masks, just days before a Thanksgiving holiday widely feared as a driver of new COVID-19 surges.

“I understand we’re all trying to do our part,” Pastor Paul Daugherty, of Victory Church, told KJRH-TV, noting that church leaders opted to fill a 5,000-seat auditorium at 50 percent capacity for the concert on Tuesday. “We are a church. We’re not going to reject people and push people out because they take their mask off.”

... As of Thursday, Tulsa County had 28,127 cumulative confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 243 deaths. Tuesday and Wednesday of this week both broke records for hospitalizations due to the virus in Tulsa.

Under an executive order from Tulsa’s mayor, events involving more than 500 people are required to submit a safety plan to the Tulsa Health Department, but neither Victory Church nor Bethel Music fulfilled that obligation, the agency told KJRH.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bethel-church-brings-coronavirus-history-to-plagued-tulsa?ref=home

[Initech]

1. It's way past time we told the evangelicals to fuck off.

They've done more harm than good to this country. And now with COVID, they're becoming a death cult. This will not end well.

[malaise]

4. Amen

[My Pet Orangutan]

13. For I was healthy and you made me sick,

sick, and you took my life.

'Whatever you did for one of the least of my brothers and sisters, you did to me.’

[malaise]

16. Lock the up!

This is murder most foul

[we can do it]

8. Fuck off and die.... maybe they will.

[bullimiami]

11. instead of fuck-off they can just die-off. dont forget to will your estate to the church.

later suckers.

[CanonRay]

18. Truth.

[Arne]

2. Tell them no

Just no.
Get your Covid and go home.

[tanyev]

3. And in 2-3 weeks, the Rapture begins.

[My Pet Orangutan]

6. And in a week, Thanksgiving :(

[Timewas]

10. Not

Not soon enough...

[Blue_true]

12. As long as they don't take innocent people with them, they have my permission to die. nt

[NoRoadUntravelled]

17. That would be awesome!

The Evangelicals would be gone in the Rapture and, with them out of the way, the rest of us can start the work to heal the country, feed the hungry, see that the sick are cared for, clean up the environment and do what's needed to get the pandemic under control. And that's just for starters.

[Timewas]

5. So

Maybe not that bad, there will be less of them to fuck things up..Religious assholes
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[Beartracks]

7. But first, they'll still wander around Tulsa spreading the virus to everyone else.

[Tanuki]

9. I guess they didn't learn much from South Korea.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-53620633

"Lee Man-hee, 88, heads the Shincheonji Church of Jesus. More than 5,000 of its members became infected, making up 36% of all Covid-19 cases in the country.

The authorities accuse him of hiding information about the group's members and gatherings from contact tracers.

The church says Mr Lee was concerned for his members' privacy, but never hid information from the authorities.

South Korea currently has 14,336 coronavirus cases, and 300 deaths.

Mr Lee was arrested early on Saturday, following an investigation. A judge said there were signs that evidence related to the case was being destroyed."

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. To compound the misery for Tulsa, all 2500 will behave the same everywhere they go....

in their homes and workplace, restaurants, bars and retail stores. Super-spreader event and super-spreader people is what I see.

Singing and shouting is COVID's perfect spreader technique.

Gawd help us if we have a real war and people actually need to sacrifice their freedoms.

A candle for the innocents.....

[d_r]

19. yep

exactly the people to stay away from

[I_UndergroundPanther]

15. fucking evangelical scam

those stupid sheep ,paying a grifting piece of shit's fancy luxurious lifestyle who is greedy as fuck with tithes and their worthless lives
They have torn down the wall bit by bit between church and state. I hope they all die.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. COVIDIOTS