tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post3180903892949721746..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: SECULARISM IS ONE OF THE NEW DOGMATIC RELIGIONS, SO TOO IS SCIENCE, BUT BOTH LACK SOMETHING THAT CATHOLICISM, EVEN IN ITS MOST DOGMATIC FORM HAS, REASON!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-497480565117789272021-05-19T07:27:06.155-04:002021-05-19T07:27:06.155-04:00From the title of your post. Contrast Jesus saying...From the title of your post. Contrast Jesus saying “Follow me” or “ I am the way, the truth, and the life” with Biden saying “Listen to the Science” or “Follow the Scientists” There has been a long battle between Science and Religion, and State versus Church. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42362844785195652292021-05-17T09:49:50.351-04:002021-05-17T09:49:50.351-04:00Can you say, "Tempest in a tea cup?"Can you say, "Tempest in a tea cup?"<br />Gene Williamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-48864288502166866342021-05-17T02:03:38.215-04:002021-05-17T02:03:38.215-04:00Anon at 7:43 p.m.:
That seems to be a very superf...Anon at 7:43 p.m.:<br /><br />That seems to be a very superficial take. The CDC should have done a better job of the messaging because not doing a better job just fuels unwarranted glee in the Covid-skeptic camp and further recklessness by Rand Paul and his ilk. But as far as the science is concerned, context is important:<br /><br />https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rand-paul-right-about-masks/<br /><br />So is nuance:<br /><br />https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/health/vaccinated-masks-needed-wellness/index.html<br />Anonymous 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-29774566636684926472021-05-16T23:57:33.286-04:002021-05-16T23:57:33.286-04:00"Anon 4:37 - Georgia's peak, with minimal..."Anon 4:37 - Georgia's peak, with minimal lockdown, this year came on Feb 16 with 240 deaths. Florida, with minimal lockdown, was on Jan 22 with 272. Lockdown states: Iowa Jan 31 with 250. Arkansas January 31 with 65. North Dakota's seventh highest death day was Jan 15 with 23. The non-lockdown states were not spared a post-Christmas holiday spike in deaths."<br /><br />It would be more correct to look at the stats by population. Georgia and Florida are a lot more populous than Iowa and Arkansas etc. Smaller population states can have lower numbers and have a worse infection and death rate. Florida has over 20 million residents, Iowa less than 4 million.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-60649242693643626332021-05-16T20:23:38.971-04:002021-05-16T20:23:38.971-04:00"Jesus tells us we can handle snakes."
..."Jesus tells us we can handle snakes."<br /><br />Huh?<br /><br />Eh?<br /><br />I trust you will not be going into the woods of your area collecting dangerous rattlesnakes and water moccasins? Or on Hilton Head, where a woman got bitten several times by a copperhead? And snake-handling is not going to part of your Masses?!?!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42935148995073807112021-05-16T19:43:14.232-04:002021-05-16T19:43:14.232-04:00Anon2, you mean past saying no don't wear mask...Anon2, you mean past saying no don't wear masks, then wear masks, and then don't wear masks? Or, maybe you mean footwear? I can honestly say I never saw anyone in a press conference in flip-flops.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-34388210506065962792021-05-16T19:39:33.396-04:002021-05-16T19:39:33.396-04:00Nobody said anything as to non-lockdown states dod...Nobody said anything as to non-lockdown states dodging anything.<br /><br />They took it on the chin and suffered horribly to supply the lockdown states. They simply peaked in infections and got to herd immunity and kept right on going. God bless them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-32802454990637235772021-05-16T19:27:57.934-04:002021-05-16T19:27:57.934-04:00Deaths follow infections by weeks, and you need to...Deaths follow infections by weeks, and you need to quote infections and not deaths when talking infection rates. Deaths are posted as certified which takes time to classify and report. Infections started crashing in January and population density has nothing to do with the virus running out of victims. Stop trying to dodge infection charts/graphs. Or bring up NOAA again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-22743654305958614052021-05-16T19:21:47.208-04:002021-05-16T19:21:47.208-04:00Father K, my reply to you regarding population den...Father K, my reply to you regarding population density was not posted, so will try again.<br /><br />There is nothing magical about population density except as a predictor of interaction. There is a huge difference between infection rates between cities using mainly apartments and mass transit, and cities primarily with houses and own transportation.<br /><br />This town is among the latter class, almost entirely single family houses with fenced yards and no mass transit.<br /><br />How infections are spread here is by exposure, primarily in the workplace and to those who spend much time in those places, whether workers or patrons of stores, restaurants and offices.<br /><br />The city had a mask mandate and they did nothing to slow the spread in those environments and it ran like wildfire until there was hardly anyone left to infect of those groups, last week we had two whole cases in town, and a total of three in the county, including city numbers.<br /><br />These are facts. Period.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-12648495226349777212021-05-16T18:30:45.399-04:002021-05-16T18:30:45.399-04:00Anon 4:37 - Georgia's peak, with minimal lock...Anon 4:37 - Georgia's peak, with minimal lockdown, this year came on Feb 16 with 240 deaths. Florida, with minimal lockdown, was on Jan 22 with 272. Lockdown states: Iowa Jan 31 with 250. Arkansas January 31 with 65. North Dakota's seventh highest death day was Jan 15 with 23. The non-lockdown states were not spared a post-Christmas holiday spike in deaths.<br /><br />Note that the non-lockdown states are also among the least densely populated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-55137572137208136872021-05-16T17:19:09.385-04:002021-05-16T17:19:09.385-04:00Anon 325, you obviously have never worked civil se...Anon 325, you obviously have never worked civil service. Those of us who have know our "leaders" and how they will generally cheerfully throw anyone in front of a train to advance their own careers, and throw each other there, too, for same reason. <br /><br />Best public display of that recently was Birx trying for a power grab from Fauci, and look at what happened to her, all of a sudden a really large amount of bad hearsay was released to media, and all of a sudden she is gone from the limelight.<br /><br />GS Admin types have one overriding mantra when making any decision, that being, "How can this bite my career rise in the ☆☆☆?", and if there is any chance it can boomerang on their rise, which all it takes is one bad decision public enough to cause earstwhile allies to turn on them (see Birx, again), then it is NOT gonna happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-12699675168738608512021-05-16T17:10:36.246-04:002021-05-16T17:10:36.246-04:00Anonymous at 3:36 p.m.:
Did you read to the end o...Anonymous at 3:36 p.m.:<br /><br />Did you read to the end of the article?<br /><br />"'Our study demonstrates how this time limit depends on the relevant factors, including room ventilation and filtration and face-mask use,' they said, noting that 'face masks can be an extremely effective indoor safety measure.'" <br /><br />Here is a link to the actual study, which (if I understand correctly) questioned the effectiveness of social distancing, not face masks. Enjoy (the equations are completely beyond me):<br /><br />https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2018995118<br />Anonymous 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-3404451024860286422021-05-16T16:56:54.958-04:002021-05-16T16:56:54.958-04:00The premise of this post is that the CDC has flip-...The premise of this post is that the CDC has flip-flopped on fully vaccinated people wearing masks. I would like to question the premise. Can someone please explain exactly how the CDC has flip flopped? Anonymous 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-64715924575662057702021-05-16T16:37:54.813-04:002021-05-16T16:37:54.813-04:00Anon325....are you really too lazy to look at stat...Anon325....are you really too lazy to look at state by state graphs to see a peak in Nov/Dec and crashing by mid Jan in every state but lockdown states, plus FL heavily visited by those lockdown state residents fleeing, and all before any possibility of vaccine effect? Do you just think the virus got tired and wanted to take a breather? Has there been a resurgence in those areas? Any other explanation come to your mind past the obvious? The only thing obvious is you just refuse to even open your eyes and look. Most of the country is now back to nearly normal, if you bother to look, and has been since late Jan/Feb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-73771198172641949022021-05-16T15:36:39.874-04:002021-05-16T15:36:39.874-04:00If anyone says that rag masks prevent the spread o...If anyone says that rag masks prevent the spread of Sar-CoVid-2 respiratory virus, let them show me the research data published in quality peer reviewed journals. And I do not mean meta analyses that bias out "undesired" previous research data. <br /><br />MIT published a research article about this virus spread about 3 weeks ago and pointed out that it makes no difference inside a closed space with poor ventilation: 6 feet or 60 feet, with or without masks, the viral load spread will be high in any poorly ventilated room, a disaster for the vulnerable in crowded and poorly ventilated old-folks homes. That is why respiratory virus epidemics are seasonal, that is, windows are closed in the north in the fall and if there is any central ventilation system it rarely has ultraviolet pathogen killer lights inside, so the virus just gets circulated everywhere: <br /><br />https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/23/mit-researchers-say-youre-no-safer-from-covid-indoors-at-6-feet-or-60-feet-in-new-study.html<br />Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42798981210486431022021-05-16T15:25:13.372-04:002021-05-16T15:25:13.372-04:00Anon 12:17 said "Which does not STOP the spre...Anon 12:17 said "Which does not STOP the spread but only SLOWS it..." No kidding. We knew this. No one said masks were going to stop the spread dead in its tracks, did they? No.<br /><br />And, "The simple fact is herd immunity was reached by most of the country via infection spread before the vaccine distribution began..." Oh, where's the data to support this "simple fact"?<br /><br />Anon 12:38 - What scientific or semi-scientific agency, governmental or non-governmental, doesn't miss forecasts, sometimes by the provebial country mile? How is it that, all of a sudden, missing a forecast is proof positive that a group is lead by a politically motivated hack?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-78671798908386757862021-05-16T13:20:12.632-04:002021-05-16T13:20:12.632-04:00Sorry, Father McD, got a comment above mixed up wi...Sorry, Father McD, got a comment above mixed up with your blog post and thought it was you suggesting firing Fauci...it was Victor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63562393932261220682021-05-16T12:49:18.291-04:002021-05-16T12:49:18.291-04:00Father McD, you have a better grasp of govt admin ...Father McD, you have a better grasp of govt admin types than does Father K by a country mile, BUT, you also know very little as to civil service. Not even the President can fire a GS employee. He can lean on others to attempt to do so from within civil service, but there are very few above Fauci in his power, and they would need show serious cause to go after him, and have a paper trail to present as evidence. Fauci has been making or breaking careers for decades and is surrounded by an army beholden to him, and you saw what happened to Birx when she made her own power play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-66486081653518936862021-05-16T12:48:00.787-04:002021-05-16T12:48:00.787-04:00Father McD, you have a better grasp of govt admin ...Father McD, you have a better grasp of govt admin types than does Father K by a country mile, BUT, you also know very little as to civil service. Not even the President can fire a GS employee. He can lean on others to attempt to do so from within civil service, but there are very few above Fauci in his power, and they would need show serious cause to go after him, and have a paper trail to present as evidence. Fauci has been making or breaking careers for decades and is surrounded by an army beholden to him, and you say what happened to Birx when she made her own power play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-85760051692918893862021-05-16T12:38:04.387-04:002021-05-16T12:38:04.387-04:00Father K, you do a great job ignoring the argument...Father K, you do a great job ignoring the arguments and redirecting to the subject of NOAA, which is a sad example to use in your misdirect as the organization has been well covered in news as to blown forecasts and political heat, which WILL skew recommendations. <br /><br />Especially it will skew them at the admin level where those types get to where they are by taking credit for successes and deflecting blame for failure onto others. Which fairly describes Fauci, who has FIFTY years of civil service, as if someone else could not do his job, and maybe better, and him likely THE highest paid GS in the entire country at over $350,000 per year, and at 2% of that per year of service Xs that 50, will collect 100% of that salary PLUS his investments of the 3 million or so made in the last 10yrs, IF he ever retires, which he does not seem inclined to do even though long past time, as he lives for his power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42219527139205785352021-05-16T12:17:53.462-04:002021-05-16T12:17:53.462-04:00fa la la, numbers skyrocketed WITH masks, and did ...fa la la, numbers skyrocketed WITH masks, and did so at the same or higher rate than maskless areas. The ONLY thing which mitigated spread was shutdowns and keeping everyone home.<br /><br />Which does not STOP the spread but only SLOWS it, and given enough time will still infect the same numbers, barring a vaccine.<br /><br />The simple fact is herd immunity was reached by most of the country via infection spread before the vaccine distribution began, the most of the country who made sure you had power, gas, and groceries to buy while you hid in your mother's basement supported by government funding the rest of the country lacked, and made fun of those making sure you had what you needed to live, including tax dollars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-56634710947354367072021-05-16T10:52:57.590-04:002021-05-16T10:52:57.590-04:00Fa la la @ 10:09, I wish you had the same concern ...Fa la la @ 10:09, I wish you had the same concern for souls who die in mortal sin a much worse fate than those who died of covid and a far, far, far higher number than anything the theortical scientists of the pandemic suggest as the number of those who have died worldwide of Covid.<br /><br />A lack of faith that no one can chant fa la la, la but only Dies Irae. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-24680692919419264712021-05-16T10:09:53.015-04:002021-05-16T10:09:53.015-04:00I think the inability of our health care systems t...I think the inability of our health care systems to keep up with the numbers of covid cases and the deaths of those infected caused FAR more anxiety than any "distortion" of the facts by politicians.<br /><br />Deaths here skyrocketed from mid-January 2021 to early March, 203 deaths on February 2 alone. Why? Boneheads went unmasked, undistanced to Christmas gatherings, singing, <br />"I ain't gonna wear no dumb mask, fa la la la la, la la la la. <br />Fauci's wrong, not up to the task, fa la la la la la, la la la la. <br />He's a hack, some pharma's puppet, fa la la la la, la la la la.<br />Just a shill, he so far up it, Fa la la la la, la la la la." <br /> <br /><br />Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of your own actions again...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-76961104734681187432021-05-16T09:57:01.998-04:002021-05-16T09:57:01.998-04:00Is it any wonder that 2 20th century converts wrot...Is it any wonder that 2 20th century converts wrote the following:<br /><br />Evelyn Waugh: the modern era is "sterile, deceptive and barbarous".<br /><br />Graham Greene: to live in our times without a sense of sin, without a need of God's grace makes one's life "drab, futile and horrifying."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-81848400230731890202021-05-16T09:32:52.347-04:002021-05-16T09:32:52.347-04:00Even our altar servers took them off this weekend!...Even our altar servers took them off this weekend!Fr. 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