Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus, Too

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The New York Times

LYNCHBURG, Va. — As Liberty University’s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service about the rampaging coronavirus.

“We’ve lost the ability to corral this thing,” Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. “I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, ‘This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn’t do,’” Dr. Eppes said in an interview.

So Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.

“Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,” Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/liberty-university-brings-back-its-students-and-coronavirus-too/ar-BB11Svap?li=BBnbcA1

[Gothmog]

1. Parents are upset

Link to tweet

[sfstaxprep]

3. Awww....Mr. Brittain....You'll Get Over It

Just write another check to Mr. Falwell, and you'll fell much better.

[dhol82]

26. Oh, how sad.

Not.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. JAIL

FUCK THIS PRICK

[ResistantAmerican17]

4. Can't quarantine yet. The cabana boy hasn't got out of Florida yet.

[sfstaxprep]

5. More Stuff Like This, And Jerry Falwell Jr. Will Get Medal Of Freedom nt

[Brainfodder]

20. Lined up right after Alex Jones and Sean Hannity?

[MANative]

6. Fine. Just confine them to campus when they arrive.

When the death toll soars, maybe we can discredit evangelical lunacy once and for all.

[pstokely]

23. where else would they go?

isn't everything closed?

[gibraltar72]

7. Has that dumb bastard looked at his insurance policy?

[Canoe52]

8. and lawsuits, lotsa lawsuits.

[dhol82]

27. Doesn't Jesus deal with that?

[ResistantAmerican17]

9. Real Christians don't need insurance

Jesus has the wheel.

[spike jones]

11. Many years ago, some in laws from north British Columbia came to visit us in the US southeast.

He was a preacher and the family very church-going Christians, of course. They had never experienced a violent thunderstorm with the great wind and buckets of blowing rain and flashes of lightning and thunder that rattled the windows. When one came through, they sat pale faced huddled on the couch while me and my children went out on the porch to watch it happen.
Some months later we heard that he had left the ministry and was selling insurance.

[ResistantAmerican17]

13. Now that's a Damascus road conversion.

[dhol82]

28. +1

[tclambert]

18. Need to put a plastic Jesus on the dashboard.

[spike jones]

21. I have no ear for music, but is this the same tune? Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

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[tclambert]

33. That is a different tune, and obviously different lyrics.

I'd never heard it before. I like how weird it is. I've never heard of a chocolate Jesus before, either. Is that a real thing? What do you do with it? Just eat it? Eating Jesus seems wrong. Well, unless he's in wafer form during communion. And you have to wash him down with his own blood, which tastes remarkably like red wine. Well, for Pentecostals his blood tastes like unfermented grape juice. They don't approve of alcohol and strain the interpretations of the Bible mightily anywhere it mentions wine, which it does a lot. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine.

Plastic Jesus is a real thing. These days, you can find Him in bobblehead form. Plastic Madonnas and plastic saints are real, too. But no plastic Holy Ghosts.

[spike jones]

34. its alright ma

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred

[TEB]

29. I love your sarcasm

You are my hero

[lonely bird]

10. Eppes isn't going to be presumptuous?

Then he is just as responsible as the asshat Falwell, Jr.

[Rebl2]

12. Well I

guess it means fewer young Republicans and lawsuits from the parents.

[Firestorm49]

14. If any kids go back, I hope they know how to pray.

Then we can see how good prayer stacks up against a deadly virus. Good Luck.

[keithbvadu2]

15. How much does the student health insurance cover?

[Girard442]

16. "I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say...

‘This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn’t do,’”

This will be the words that define Eppes until the day he dies, the little toad.*

*Apologies to actual hardworking toads, who are splendid animals.

[tclambert]

17. They must not have prayed hard enough.

Did they kneel while praying? Maybe they didn't kneel enough.

Did they pray to the Lord Jesus or to Donald Trump? Sometimes conservatives have trouble keeping their gods straight.

[DenverJared]

19. This is what happens when one relies on jesus instead of scientists

and hate to say it (I don't wish coronavirus or any sickness on anyone) ... couldn't have happened in a better place

[pstokely]

22. leases for off campus apartments are usually a year long

haven't held of any cancelling them? I don't they if liberty fake u still does this, but they required off campus apartments be visited by by someone of from student affairs to make sure they were in compliance with their rules.

[Lord Ludd]

24. What, you expected Failwell to act rationally?

Fuhgeddaboudit.

[la-trucker]

25. I would laugh hysterically

if this weren't a tragedy and a risk to people's lives.

[DanieRains]

30. Just More Corpses

To add to the piles.

[NCjack]

31. Too bad those students can't grow brains. But, they can

flip the pages of their Bibles at high speed.

[pstokely]

32. some of those students might have brains

they might have only be going there because their parents made them or liberty fake u gave them a really good deal because their GPA or ACT scores were on the higher end of their applicants, they have low admission standards

[Marcuse]

35. Falwell just doesn't want to refund prepaid room and board

[pstokely]

36. what's the point in returning to the campus if the classes have moved online?

other than to get things out of the dorms?