RBiser

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard

https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/#section-4-pareto-mitigation-an-evidence-based-approach

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/11/unnecessary_lockdowns_created_social_turmoil_global_suffering_143419.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/we-often-accuse-the-right-of-distorting-science-but-the-left-changed-the-coronavirus-narrative-overnight

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-reopening-idUSKBN2341N7

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/covid-19-t-cells/

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/25/861923548/stockholm-wont-reach-herd-immunity-in-may-sweden-s-chief-epidemiologist-says?ft=nprml&f=1001

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/07/851725443/mystery-inflammatory-syndrome-in-kids-and-teens-likely-linked-to-covid-19

The Scab and the Wound Beneath

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe9yq/the-chinese-government-has-convinced-its-citizens-that-the-us-army-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan

Pray for the Chinese subjugated by Xi and the CCP.

The Hero, Li Wenliang:

The Villain, Xi Jinping:

The Patsy, Donald Trump:

“A few weeks back it would have been inconceivable that we would soon be living under martial law, but that is essentially what has happened. I believe the government is acting with the best intentions, with the best knowledge available to it, but the staggering power of the state is still alarming: that schools and businesses can be shut, church services closed, and movement outside the home curtailed is extraordinary. What if a government decided to take such steps for less benign reasons than the current ones? Having discovered its own power, can we really be confident that government might not want to flex the same muscles again?”

While others should have done better it is China’s fault. #XiVirus

Pray for those ruled by Xi. Pray all the other victims of the virus from Xi’s China.

Timeline: The early days of China’s coronavirus outbreak and cover-up

Coronavirus, media Hong Kong: a Wuhan negati i test a pazienti con sintomi per confermare fine dell’emergenza

EU contra China

43,000 positive tests not reported in China?

Chinese victim dates back to November 17

Chinese doctors censored and punished by the party?

Likewise Chinese Journalists

The American version

The view from Taiwan

On the other hand:

Covid Observations from Beijing March 11

WHO doesn’t know who Taiwan is? (Tweet)

And WHO no longer knows who Bruce Aylward is?

What kind of body will the damned have?

Will they be raised with glorious incorruptible bodies like our risen king’s?

Will they be raised with another perishable body?

It is frustrating enough that we know so little of the future fate of the redeemed, but the future fate of the damned is even more obscure.

Given that none but God is immortal and he is the creator and sustainer of all things, whatever form the dead have will be sustained by God. Given that there is no division between body and soul in man it is not enough to say that the redeemed will be given glorious incorruptible bodies and the dead won’t.

If one holds that the dead will exist conscious yet without bodies until the resurrection will the damned just stay as disembodied spirits capable of suffering? Revelation, the Rich Man and Lazarus, and other teachings on hell don’t paint a picture of ghosts suffering, but physical pain.

And per Luke 12.47-48 suffering will be proportional to knowledge of God’s expectations and degree of violations. Is this a difference in duration of punishment (fewer blows as Jesus says) or intensity of punishment (equal number of but less forceful blows)? And what about John’s apocalyptic imagery which seems to lump all the damned together?

If eternal death is in fact eternal dying and the dead will live forever (just a horrific eternal life) then how will there be a difference in punishment? Will those who could not have converted receive a rational infinity set of blows and those who rejected the gospel receive a real infinity set of blows?¹ Or is eternal death actually death without end preceded by proportional punishment-and not painfully dying without end²-as proposed by annihilationists?