10-07-2021, 12:08 PM
(10-07-2021, 01:03 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I bet those snake handling Christians are not vaccinated either. They rely on God. I've seen signs to that effect at their demonstrations.
The sensible thing to do if one hears a rattler is to back off. Ironically the rattler is in more danger from your tread than you are from the bite. It has every reason to get away from you, your dog, or your cat. Cats eat rattlers.
One of the supreme connections between COVID-19 and rattlesnake bites is that the death rates from both are roughly the same. The real difference is that someone who can infect you is effectively as dangerous as a rattler, but unlike a rattler offers no warning. In the end someone who gets COVID-19 at its absolute worst ends up rattling -- giving the death rattle.
I can't speak for God, but I figure that He commands that we not test Him with a need for a miracle due to recklessness.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.