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Here is a link to an article from a study by the New York Department of Health, published in the the Bulletin of the American Statistical Association in 1922. The entire article, which deals with the "epochs" of influenza pandemics over a five hundred year period, is informative and instructive in light of the current Covid-19 pandemic.  Here is the most pertinent, Covid-related take-away:  "The fifth epoch (Spanish Flu) began in 1915 and is still in progress. The first pandemic invasion was the great wave of 1918, which has been followed by several revivals in various countries, some of serious proportions as to mortality. This, doubtless, was the most fatal of all influenza pandemics and was perhaps the greatest single catastrophe of modern times,not excepting wars. Therefore the duration of the first four epochs being roughly 24, 15, 28, and 12 years respectively, or an average of 19.8 years, it is clear that the epoch beginning in 1915 will very probably contain on...

The Inalienable Right of Christians to Risk and Lay Down Their Lives for Others In recent days the airwaves and social media have been the epicenter of a raging debate around President Trump's recent pronouncement that churches should no longer be kept closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The current Argument The justification for declaring churches as "essential," for most Christians, is based on two primary arguments: first, that the Constitution protects both our freedom to worship and our right to assemble; second, that we are commanded to gather together in corporate worship. Of course, there is also the very legitimate argument that churches should be no more restricted than grocery stores, barber shops or other places that have looser restrictions than do houses of worship.  All these are legitimate arguments, and the proposed solutions coming from the churches are reasonable. It is just as easy for a church to re-open safely as it is for a business, and frankly, ...