Monsignor Charlie Pope's parish has posted an advisory from the Washington, D.C. Department of Health:
On July 28, 2020, Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian notified the parishioners that a priest was confirmed to have COVID-19.On July 29, 2020, the DC Contact Trace Force and DC Health Epidemiologists began their outreach to collect additional information.Based on the information we have gathered, DC Health would like to share some important messages as additional individuals have been identified as having been exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2) and will need to follow recommendations for quarantine.Parishioners who took communion at the church during the services listed below have been identified as being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and should quarantine for 14 days from the last date of potential exposure.These exposures occurred on:
- Saturday, July 25 at 4:30 pm
- Sunday, July 26 at 8:00 am, 11:00 am, and 7:00 pm
- Monday, July 27 at morning mass
Persons who participated in communion at these services should take the following precautions:Separate yourself from other people (self-quarantine) as much as possible at your home for 14 days from the last time you took communion at one of these events.Avoid leaving the house except for essential medical care. Do not leave home to go to work or school.Do not take public transportation (e.g., Metro buses or trains) and do not use taxis or rideshare services.Prohibit visitors who do not have an essential need to be in the home. For more information, please refer to the following guidance: Guidance for contacts of person confirmed with COVID-19.If you have additional questions about your health, please contact your healthcare provider. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. Be sure to let them know about your exposure to a confirmed COVID-19 case.
Msgr. Pope also posted this video for his parishioners, with more details and an update:
Please continue to keep Msgr. Pope and his parishioners in your prayers.
23 comments:
"DO YOU THINK COVID-19 IS CONTAGIOUS!"
No, I think that every single person who has spent time in the ICU and every single person who has died from Covid-19 and every single person who has been ill for three weeks at home went to the virus store ("VIRI ARE US"), bought and ampule of the coronavirus, went home, and self-infected themselves by inhaling the contents of the container.
I hear the "VIRI ARE US" store is having a 2 for 1 sale....possibly even 3or 4 for 1....
As it is said....all it takes is ONE
What kind of daft question is this - do you think a highly nfectious disease is contagious?
No, Covid-19 is not contagious. What is highly contagious, and impossible to eradicate, is the Sars-Covid-2 virus which is said to produce the Covid-19 disease.
But fortunately, it is harmless for 99.8% of the general population, close to what a bad year of the flu will do. But unfortunately its morbidity targets a certain segment of the population, those with compromised immune systems, generally the very old with pre-existing serious diseases. The flu morbidity also targets these, but is more widely distributed to the age groups of the population, (and the West generally failed to protect them from the virus), but does present a particular danger to the very young who have not yet had the opportunity to gain an immunity to the particular family of influenza viruses.
Why our God-less society is in a state of panic when SARS-CoVid-2 presents a real danger to only a tiny .2% of the population if not less (we will see next year when all the stats will have been compiled and analysed more accurately) can perhaps be explained by this fine article from our friends in Australia:
https://mercatornet.com/covidism-as-an-ideology/65253/
Depends on how wafers/hosts were handled, whether gloves used and if properly donned, or how rigorously hands were sanitized prior to handling the hosts.
Even though infected, no communicant was anywhere near him for anywhere near long enough to become infected unless he was very sloppy on the hand sanitizing and it contracted via ingestion of touched hosts. If his hand sanitizing was thorough, essentially no chance of transmission via same.
At far greater risk are those in residence with him and/or those who worked around him in areas he frequented. The virus accumulates unless areas constantly sanitized, and also distributed via air conditioning unless (likely unobtainium, now) allergy-type high filtration air filters installed and regularly changed.
The latest from Dr. Fauci:
“From everything we’ve seen now — in the animal data, as well as the human data — we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. I don’t think it’s dreaming.”
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https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/22/our-lady-coronavirus
Our Lady of the Covid-19 Virus. Pope Francis is the Pope of the Covid-19 virus.
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History will inform citizens of the Church and world that Pope Francis stands alongside Pope Saint Gregory The Great's 590 A.D. holy, powerful spiritual response to the plague that had menaced Rome.
That is, when Covid-19 menaced Rome, as well as the world, Pope Francis followed in Pope Saint Gregory The Great's footsteps.
Pope Francis, via the Blessed Virgin Mary's powerful intercession, served as the world's most prominent leader in his having entreated God to deliver us from the Covid-19 virus.
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May God heal Monsignor Pope of Covid-19. May God protect those around Monsignor Pope, and Monsignor Pope's congregation, from Covid-19.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
The daft Question is courtesy of a slow news day.
The MercatorNet item features the thought of Denis Praeger.
In 2006, Prager criticized Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, for announcing that he would use the Quran for the reenactment of his swearing in ceremony. Prager wrote: "Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible. If you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don't serve in Congress." In response, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch called for Prager to end his service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.
Praeger, whose thinking is, at times, extreme and xenophobic, needs a refresher course on the U.S. Constiutution and our vital non-establishment clause.
Here is some news
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-benedict-health-idUSKBN24Z0RK
I see Mark Thomas needs attention today....potential hijack alert! ⚠
Bee here:
How good it is to see this video! Thank you for sharing it. I know it was meant for Msg. Pope's parishioners, but he is somewhat well known in the Catholic world, and so concern for him was widespread. To see him up and about a little, even while sick, is a great relief.
I am glad he is doing better. It's a good sign they sent him home instead of keeping him in the hospital. It's also wonderful he has a doctor nearby who will monitor his health in case he should have a setback.
How ironic and strange that he caught this illness just after his article about it. Those who excessively fear the virus see that as some kind of sign, some kind of retribution for speaking against the extreme fear-mongering that is the national narrative. Instead, it gives Msg. Pope a chance to live his message, to reiterate that the fear is a little exaggerated, that although taking the illness seriously is important, the illness, for most people, is not a death sentence. He is able to model perhaps a more true Catholic response to the illness, one that ultimately hopes and trusts in God in all the circumstances of life, and puts our immediate concerns for ourselves secondary to His will. That in itself is a hard hill to climb.
Msg. Pope a good priest. The parish is lucky to have such a one.
God bless.
Bee
Well said Bee. I don't agree with those who consider it retribution either.
Anonymous @ 10:31
Are you using ad hominem arguments against what Mr Praeger said?
That aside, it is interesting that ad hominem arguments is the only tactic left to the Covidists who otherwise cannot argue using scientific factual data to support their draconian positions.
No, I used a Constitutional argument.
First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Mr. Praeger seems to have overlooked this part of the Constitution.
"Further, there is Article Six: "After requiring all federal and state legislators and officers to swear or affirm to support the federal Constitution, Article VI specifies that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” This prohibition, commonly known as the No Religious Test Clause."
Another portion of the Constitution Praeger doesn't seem constrained to follow.
Anonymous at 4:32 pm
Strange, Senator Diane Feinstein used a religious test on Amy Barrett when she was up for an Appellate Court position year of so back. Did that bother you?
And what does that have to do with Praeger?
what does Praeger or whatever have to do the the original post regarding a priest who has contracted the virus and distributed Holy Communion while infected? And as if this the first time THAT had happened?
I thought the response by officials was not shy by much of announcing that anyone who shares a birthday with a known infected person must lock themselves in solitary confinement.
The entire point of tracing, isolation, etc, was to prevent widespread untraceable community transmission, and to prevent, not infection, but the geometric progression of cases to point where the minority who became seriously ill still overwhelm the hospitals' capacity to treat all the seriously ill minority.
We are well past that first reason for heavy handed expel the lepers hurdle, and it remains to be seen if we cross the bar at the second.
But, telling anyone who might even remotely be infected to self-isolate may as well tell everyone alive to go home and lock the doors, and all that does is slow the spread rate, but not slow the total spread, as the only thing which will do THAT is the virus fizzles, or herd immunity obtained/obtainable, or successful vaccine of near planetary distribution accomplished.
As the General remarked, we are not testing our way out of this. Nor shut-downing nor fake-masking our way of this. If vulnerable, stay as far away from others as possible, and everybody else stay away from the vulnerable.
Otherwise, it not only is going to happen, but IS happening and very little can be done but keep as much distance as possible, keep hands off and away from face until sanitized (and what fake mask wearer does THAT? and what drop in cases happened where when mask wear suddenly mandated?), and hope for best/pray.
Anonymous at 8:16,
It shows the utter hypocrisy of the left, particularly those with political power. Are you going to join Antifa and burn Bibles?
Anon 11:42 - Had you read the item Victor posted you would have found Praeger there. Very clearly, I was responding to that item. Praeger, with his peculairly un-American view of religious freedom, is not someone I would look to for warnings about "ideology" of any shape or size.
Anonymous at 8:14,
LOL - Obama in his war on the Little Sisters of the Poor has a "peculiarly un-American view of religious freedom" as does Diane Feinstein.
Anon@0814, it still begs the question as to what Praeger commentary has to do with the original post regarding an infected priest, and my not participating in the hijack by reading the Praeger piece is not germane in the least.
I could also have debated wheaties or cream of wheat for breakfast, and cited articles for folk to read, with same utter unrelation to the topic.
Folk who want their own soap box should pay for their own soap box. This was no wandering of topic which happens in any conversation, but straight up left/right ideologue ranting between sides with earplugs worn by both.
Anon 11:14 - Ask Victor, he posted the item that quoted Praeger.
You didn't know how Praeger entered the conversation because you didn't read the item Victor posted. You worry about others wearing earplugs - take off you own blinders.
The author of the article Victor links mentions various ideologies including “[d]emocratic capitalism, fascism, feudalism, and socialism” to which he now adds “covidism.” To be sure, he doesn’t mention “liberalism” or “conservatism” either, but perhaps the most telling and pertinent omission of an ideology in the context of a discussion about Covid-19 is “libertarianism.”
The author concludes that “[t]he precautions taken against Covid-19 may do more harm than the virus itself.” But just before saying this he says “[c]itizens and politicians, in making prudential decisions about public health, need to free themselves, so far as humanly possible, from ideological distortions,” and immediately after saying it he says “A reader may ask: do I think that I am immune to ideological distortion? On the contrary, we are all sinners – cognitively as in every other way. The best I can do is to think as well as I can.” Exactly! Libertarians take note and “wear a d**n mask.” Is it really so much to ask in a concerted effort to help reduce the incidence and severity of infection?
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