__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
At Least 74 Infected in COVID-19 Outbreak at Peoples Church
At least 74 attendees of Peoples Church in Salem have contracted COVID-19, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
Oregon health officials began investigating the outbreak on April 6th. OHA did not release information about it until May 5th. It's now the state's eighth-largest active workplace outbreak.
The church, located at 4500 Lancaster Drive NE, has continued to hold in-person services and events, according to its website and Facebook page.
That includes three in-person Mother’s Day services scheduled for this coming Sunday.
Officials at Peoples Church declined to respond to questions or acknowledge the outbreak.
Church spokesman Brent Kintz said in an email sent on behalf of church leadership, "Pastor (Scott) Erickson is looking forward to sharing a Mother's Day message in our in-person worship services this Sunday."
In May 2020, Peoples Church joined nine other Oregon churches in a legal effort to overturn Governor Kate Brown's COVID-19 restrictions. The complaint, filed by California-based Pacific Justice Institute, argued that restrictions on churches violate constitutional protections for religious freedom.
According to the church's Facebook page, Erickson and his wife, Bonnie, both were hospitalized with COVID-19 last month.
Marion County has been in the "high-risk" category for the past several months, with the exception of April 30–May 6, when it was moved to "extreme-risk."
Under high-risk provisions, faith institutions may have a maximum occupancy of 25% of normal, or 150 people, whichever is smaller.
Under extreme-risk provisions, that dropped to 25% occupancy or 100 people, whichever is smaller, with a recommended one-hour limit to services.
In both cases, people are required to wear masks and remain six feet apart.
The church's recent Facebook photos of gatherings show neither masks nor physical distancing.
A second Denver Sheriff Department deputy died due to COVID-19 complications, less than two weeks after the first.
Deputy Daniel "Duke" Trujillo, a 33-year-old former Marine, died Wednesday, and Deputy James Herrera, 51, died of COVID-19 on May 16th.
Trujillo and Herrera worked at the Downtown Detention Center, which has had an active COVID-19 outbreak since April 2020. The Denver Sheriff Department website reported 11 active cases at the detention center as of Thursday.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment data shows 1,261 COVID-19 cases at the detention center, with 107 of them among staff members, since April 2020.
Sheriff's deputies, like other first responders in Colorado, became eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations in January and were among those allowed to have vaccines as the first wave of doses were available in the state.
However, the shots were not mandatory, and the department does not track how many deputies have been vaccinated.
Trujillo was opposed to the vaccine, according to public posts on his Facebook page. He posted multiple images and comments about mask-wearing and the vaccine, including one with his picture framed by the words, "I don't care if you've had your vaccine."
On April 26th, he reposted a TikTok video of a man, who identified himself as a former Marine, who said people should not take a COVID-19 vaccination because the long-term side effects were unknown. Trujillo commented, "I'll get it later on after y'all start growing apendages (sic) out of y'all's foreheads."
In the wake of the two recent deaths, the sheriff's department is organizing on-site employee vaccination clinics at the city's two jails. But the department will not mandate staff be vaccinated.
Trujillo was opposed to the vaccine, according to public posts on his Facebook page. He posted multiple images and comments about mask-wearing and the vaccine, including one with his picture framed by the words, "I don't care if you've had your vaccine." -snip
Sounds like he was listening to Tucker Carlson and QAnon nonsense, what a goober. But hey, at least he died free.
thread title should probably be changed to "Maskholes". that seems to be the term which most people have settled on
__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
wow how many simultaneous sock accounts do you need? are you filling in for starflysquallbrooklyn?
__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.