In this country, the Constitution takes precedent over the bible. All the major religions have the same basic law to obey civil authorities. But that doesn’t mean the civil authorities can end run around their Constitutional limitations.
That said, the country has had periods of emergency where civil rights were suspended. To my knowledge, never because of a disease or in such blanked fashion.
We need to know if the chloroquine/z-pac/zinc combo works and we should really know by now if it does. It seems to work quite well. There is a lot of data out there. We shouldn’t be waiting around for a miracle ‘vaccine’ to show up when a treatment and possible prophylactic is potential right under our noses.
But if walmart can do its business, restricted only by social distancing guidekines, why can’t churches? How can government declare that church is not essential? Saying its online is government defining what religion is.