Just the usual "are the palm fronds disinfected, rinsed, dried, and handled by folk with gloves/masks/preferable coveralls for storage, prior to distribution?"......same as with Communion, just now, anybody could be an unknown carrier and infecting every thing they touch, and social distancing goes right out the window when goods are exchanged....to be done only with greatest precautions and strictest neccessity...
Here is data our Federal Task Force is using as for peak activity, mortality, etc, and for the next several weeks, things are only getting more dangerous....use United States dropdown arrow for GA.... https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Bob, do you go grocery shopping? Drive through fast food? I am afraid many of us will contract this virus and be clueless hoe they got it in their sterile environment. The majority will recover, a huge number will die. All of us will die eventually. If you live your life in God’s hands, no matter what, even a Holocaust, be not afraid. You can’t control everything.
I go grocery shopping and wipe everything before even placing in car, bags from store discarded then and there. As a former Army unit NBC officer, former hospital worker, former handler of hazmat on a daily basis, and worker in confined spaces with same, I have a great appreciation of how a person who is infected can distribute death quite easily while with the best of intentions.
If the fronds have been sitting sealed for weeks, and stay sealed until distribution, they should be fine, but if otherwise handled by folk not tested immediately prior to distribution, and them exposed around anyone for any length of time, there IS a risk of passing more than a palm frond.
I take my temperature daily, as a precaution against being a Typhoid Mary spreading death wherever I go. I sanitize anything I give to other people lest I be a vector, and still urge them to sanitize it themselves and then wash hands when home. I do not want to face God knowing I did not do everything reasonable to prevent killing other people.
As to the fast-food question, the answer is "not at all, not for over 3wks" when I noted many folk not wearing gloves, handling money and then slamming lids on drinks and etc etc...this is known as risk management and mitigation. Or, being smart. Or, not pushing luck.
Folk I am helping out now trust me to be taking precautions, my former unit members and co-workers trusted me when I would tell them, "do this, this, and this, and you will be safe," and they knew that what I told them was NOT, "well, you likely should be just fine, going by odds."
I can easily see why bishops and priests frozen, as they watch the news and see media jump with both feet on parties, funerals, and religious services shown to be centers of large outbreak clusters and fatalities. I do not fault them for not wanting to be "that guy" who facilitated and even encouraged a large outbreak.
What I DO fault them for is not working as hard as possible to mitigate risks for trusting flocks while still preserving the sacramental life of the churches...NOT to be confused with ignoring the dangers and doing business as usual and trusting in luck to keep trusting flocks safe...
In the next 2-4 weeks nationwide, deaths are going to zoom up and up and up, most of those people who will die in this next month are completely uninfected at this moment, but will be infected by somebody else who has not a clue they are carrying. Any local infection figures are days to weeks behind in testing backlog, and have been mostly of folk already heavily hammered by this virus and needing emergency care, and the vast majority of who are actually infected currently will never be known until nationwide testing, and those numbers will be astounding when determined....
locally, from local LEO/EMS friends, I know our actual hospitalizations are 4 times what is posted on official numbers due to data lag from Drs, labs, state getting results very last, and that those folk have infected 2-3 others who have yet to show signs enough for testing, and THOSE folk are currently infecting 2-3 others all unknown.
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Just the usual "are the palm fronds disinfected, rinsed, dried, and handled by folk with gloves/masks/preferable coveralls for storage, prior to distribution?"......same as with Communion, just now, anybody could be an unknown carrier and infecting every thing they touch, and social distancing goes right out the window when goods are exchanged....to be done only with greatest precautions and strictest neccessity...
Here is data our Federal Task Force is using as for peak activity, mortality, etc, and for the next several weeks, things are only getting more dangerous....use United States dropdown arrow for GA....
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Bob, do you go grocery shopping? Drive through fast food? I am afraid many of us will contract this virus and be clueless hoe they got it in their sterile environment. The majority will recover, a huge number will die. All of us will die eventually. If you live your life in God’s hands, no matter what, even a Holocaust, be not afraid. You can’t control everything.
I go grocery shopping and wipe everything before even placing in car, bags from store discarded then and there. As a former Army unit NBC officer, former hospital worker, former handler of hazmat on a daily basis, and worker in confined spaces with same, I have a great appreciation of how a person who is infected can distribute death quite easily while with the best of intentions.
If the fronds have been sitting sealed for weeks, and stay sealed until distribution, they should be fine, but if otherwise handled by folk not tested immediately prior to distribution, and them exposed around anyone for any length of time, there IS a risk of passing more than a palm frond.
I take my temperature daily, as a precaution against being a Typhoid Mary spreading death wherever I go. I sanitize anything I give to other people lest I be a vector, and still urge them to sanitize it themselves and then wash hands when home. I do not want to face God knowing I did not do everything reasonable to prevent killing other people.
As to the fast-food question, the answer is "not at all, not for over 3wks" when I noted many folk not wearing gloves, handling money and then slamming lids on drinks and etc etc...this is known as risk management and mitigation. Or, being smart. Or, not pushing luck.
Folk I am helping out now trust me to be taking precautions, my former unit members and co-workers trusted me when I would tell them, "do this, this, and this, and you will be safe," and they knew that what I told them was NOT, "well, you likely should be just fine, going by odds."
I can easily see why bishops and priests frozen, as they watch the news and see media jump with both feet on parties, funerals, and religious services shown to be centers of large outbreak clusters and fatalities. I do not fault them for not wanting to be "that guy" who facilitated and even encouraged a large outbreak.
What I DO fault them for is not working as hard as possible to mitigate risks for trusting flocks while still preserving the sacramental life of the churches...NOT to be confused with ignoring the dangers and doing business as usual and trusting in luck to keep trusting flocks safe...
In the next 2-4 weeks nationwide, deaths are going to zoom up and up and up, most of those people who will die in this next month are completely uninfected at this moment, but will be infected by somebody else who has not a clue they are carrying. Any local infection figures are days to weeks behind in testing backlog, and have been mostly of folk already heavily hammered by this virus and needing emergency care, and the vast majority of who are actually infected currently will never be known until nationwide testing, and those numbers will be astounding when determined....
locally, from local LEO/EMS friends, I know our actual hospitalizations are 4 times what is posted on official numbers due to data lag from Drs, labs, state getting results very last, and that those folk have infected 2-3 others who have yet to show signs enough for testing, and THOSE folk are currently infecting 2-3 others all unknown.
So, back to drive-thru and fast food....ha....
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