"I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing," Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on "Newsroom." https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/politics/fauci-coronavirus-wear-masks-cnntv/index.html Dr. Anthony Fauci says wearing a mask is symbolic. Fauci was the one that told Americans that we ought to NEVER again shake hands with each other. He made it clear that he really meant NEVER again should we shake hands. So obviously hugging is out too. People in our church hug each other. Families hug each other. What kind of world will we have if we allow the "experts" to tell us to stop shaking hands and stop hugging each other? The "experts" . . . A Ph.D. can be a very unwise individual that merely had the ability to memorize material and parrot it back to their professors in college and university. Having "Doctor" before your name is not a guarantee that you are in fact an expert in your field. The "experts" are not really experts. I read only articles that are posted by mainstream news organizations --- so as to reduce the amount of nonsense that is all over the Internet -- and it is clear and obvious that nobody knows what this COVID-19 virus is going to do. All the articles I read from CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News, etc are saturated with words like "but" and "if" and "maybe" and "possibly" and other words and phrases that indicate uncertainty with regard to what we ought to do, or not to do, with regard to this COVID-19 killer virus. One thing is absolutely certain: If the governments of the world, especially the American government and the governments of Western nations, do not soon re-open their economies, the world is going to have a sustained Global Economic Depression that is going to end up being far worse, in terms of ruin, destruction, and Death, than this COVID -19 killer virus. A nation cannot have tens of millions of people with no jobs living on government checks when there in no more jobs and money being generated via a booming economy -- and survive as a nation. There will come a time when "Uncle Sugar" can NO LONGER send you a check. You have no job and no money and the government {Uncle Sugar} can no longer send you a check. So what do you do then? I mentioned this before. The American Government recently sent me and my family a check for $2400.00 -- to stimulate the economy. They sent millions of those checks out. Tens of millions of other families got checks for $3400.00. {$500.00 for each child if they had 2 children} Such as that cannot be sustained. If this COVID-19 virus does what the "experts" say it is going to do -- which is come back big time in the coming months, and possibly "stay around" for the next two {2} years . . . or longer --- then we here on Planet Earth are going to have to make some truly very "difficult choices." I am an optimistic soul and I believe that the future of Christendom and the human race is going to be bright and cheerful and full of "faith, hope, and love", long-term. But with regard to the "short-term" there can be some very very "bumpy roads" ahead. I don't know what the best answers are. I don't think anybody else knows either. Maybe this below is the best answer? "If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.__2 Chronicles 7:14 Looks to me like we're to the point where we need the God of the Bible to "heal our land." What say you? `
