Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church in north Alabama.
Posted on 07/27/2020 9:06:16 AM PDT by lightman
More than 40 people have coronavirus after attending a week-long revival at a small north Alabama Baptist church last week, pastor Daryl Ross said today. Only two male members’ cases were serious, he said. “One respiratory, he almost got put in the hospital, but he’s OK,” Ross said. “The other one fought it off with two days in bed.”
“The whole church has got it, just about,” Ross said, and that includes himself. Ross said he has tested positive but has few symptoms.
The Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church is located in a small Marshall County community called Strawberry. It dates to the 1860s and usually has between 80 and 100 at Sunday services.
“We had church Wednesday night. We were in revival, morning and night services,” Ross said. “On the way back over Thursday is when we found out. I got a call that one of our guys in the church has tested positive. So, we shut down revival and, by Friday night, I’ve got church members sick everywhere.”
Baptist revivals are week-long events usually featuring a guest evangelist. Their purpose is to bring church members closer together and encourage professions of faith from attendees who have not been baptized into the church. “We have day and night services and, after morning services, families carry the pastor and evangelist home to eat dinner with them,” Ross explained. The visiting evangelist followed that pattern and has reported no symptoms, Ross said.
The man believed to have brought the virus to revival also had no symptoms, Ross said. “He had three guys at work that came down positive,” he said. “From work, they made him test, and he came back positive. No symptoms.”
The man still has no symptoms, Ross said, but his “entire family” has the virus now. “I ate lunch with him,” Ross said. “No nothing. Not a sniffle. Not a headache. Nothing.”
As for himself, Ross said, “I can’t smell or taste, a little sinus, that’s all I’ve had. The whole church has been running fever and headaches and terrible respiratory (issues), and I’ve been building fences and bush-hogging.”
Preachers from other churches have called to find out what happened and how, Ross said. “We just know we had a guy tested positive right in the middle of the revival,” Ross said. “That’s all we know.”
Masks weren’t required for the revival, and Ross said “most members” skipped the week because of the virus. Churchgoers usually range in age from babies to 97 years old, he said. “We let everybody do what they felt like,” he said of those who came. “We social distanced. Most of them sat with their own family. If you were comfortable shaking hands, you shook hands. If you didn’t, you didn’t.”
“We knew what we were getting into,” Ross said. “We knew the possibilities. But, my goodness, man, for three days we had one of the old-time revivals. It was unbelievable. And everybody you ask, if you talk to our church members right now, they’d tell you we’d do it again. It was that good.”
Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church in north Alabama.
Another one of these anecdotal morality plays that the MSM loves so well.
“A small Alabama church had a revival and now 40 people have coronavirus”
Many NY Nursing homes had a governor. Now THOUSANDS are dead.
Many NJ Nursing homes had a governor. Now THOUSANDS are dead.
Many MI Nursing homes had a governor. Now THOUSANDS are dead.
rinse.repeat.
Were the 40 people tested before they went to the revival?
Herd immunity.
It’s a good thing.
WTF is Pennsylvania Real-Time News doing in Alabama? Don’t Penn have enough sh*t going on in their cancerous neck of the woods?
Covid-19 has become the modern-day equivalent of playground “cooties.”
There’s a chance that this story is fake. It’s a convenient story that could be provided by a willing congregation of DNC loyalists.
Local news says no prior tests....one guy came down....word got around, and then others started to show up and ask for the test. It would appear the ‘starter’ guy got it the week or so prior to the revival, and the rest from this guy.
wHY DID THESE FOLKS ALL GET IT WHEN THE RIOTERS SEEM NOT?
How does anyone know for sure that the church was the venue where they all acquired the virus?
Penn Live is a joke!
But no one hospitalized. So what’s the big deal. They’ll all get over it and now they can worship without worrying.
Fauci knew what he was doing...because he kept using the word "wave"....and this "wave" was created (via Fauci) by quarantining "Well People".
ZERO Deaths
ZERO Hospitalizations
MSM/FAKE NEWS saddened.
The Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church is located in a small Marshall County community called Strawberry.
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Just rename the church The Antifa Warriors and the MSM will give them a pass.
...and now 40 people have coronavirus.
Meanwhile, looks like they are early adapters of herd immunity. :)
Herd immunity. It’s a good thing, TO END THIS VIRUS.
“We had church Wednesday night. We were in revival, morning and night services,” Ross said. “On the way back over Thursday is when we found out. I got a call that one of our guys in the church has tested positive. So, we shut down revival and, by Friday night, I’ve got church members sick everywhere.”
That is, bullchit.
What are their ages? Do any have any comorbidity factors. Who chose to wear a mask and who chose not to.
Those are the important questions [(a) vulnerabilities and (b) personal responsibility], not how many “cases” they represent.
If someone attended such a gathering with an active case of the flu, how many would get it??
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