John Lewis certainly merited a large funeral! However, so did several members of my two Orthodox Christian parishes who recently passed on! They also merited the traditional memorial services, memorial meals, 40-day memorials, etc. And so did we parishioners!!!!
However, due to the “covid” restrictions, NONE but John Lewis got any such thing!!! (In several cases, proper memorials are planned for after “covid” restrictions are gone.)
As for George Floyd Criminal, and his criminal family, they merited NOTHING! But they got the big funeral anyway, because of bogus “social justice”!!!!
The current restrictions seem too arbitrary and in any case are not working as designed. It might be better to switch to a two-phase approach where higher risk individuals are strongly advised to self isolate and the larger more healthy segment of society just goes into a normal mode and let the generally mild COVID they might encounter burn through.
Otherwise this is going to go on forever and morph into new Karenoramas every time grandpa blows his nose.
William Penn’s “holy experiment” has left a legacy that, even during the “lockdown” phase the Pennsylvania Governor specifically exempted reilgious organizations and services from attendance caps and percentage of occupancy limitations.
Any restrictions on the Orthodox have come from their Hierarchs, NOT the Commonwealth.