01-04-2021, 05:16 PM
(01-04-2021, 04:11 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-04-2021, 03:46 PM)tomh009 Wrote: He's indeed a criminal -- as is anyone who commits a crime. And a liar, too.
There are already two church outbreaks in the region, and these people are flouting the law and risking everyone else's health, because they feel they are above the law. The region should request an injunction to prevent people from entering the church.
We’re getting ample confirmation, once again, that in fact prayer does not work to avoid illness. They’re entitled to their religious beliefs, but not to impose the consequences of those beliefs on the rest of us.
If necessary, the next step should be to set up a checkpoint at the driveway entrance Sunday morning and give people the choice of turning back or being ticketed. No-one gets in to the property without being identified and ticketed.
Indeed. Of course, we'll see if anything actually happens. That being said, the situation in the US is far more extreme, we are watching protestors, not protesting in buildings, but swarming malls and businesses and intentionally antagonizing people, and in some cases actually physically assaulting people who are wearing masks, and otherwise creating a disturbance and refusing to leave. And rarely, even for these very clear, non-pandemic time crimes (assault is a crime, so is trespassing) no charges are being laid.
A very scary place to be in the US right now, where being a criminal relates not to committing a crime, but who you are.