Bill Wilson

Coronavirus, Cynicism and Ignorance :: By Bill Wilson

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Countries around the world are trying to take prevention measures against coronavirus. In the United States, though, the White House and the appropriate agencies are taking aggressive action. The stock market is diving. This is reminiscent of the SARS virus, which also began in China in 2002. According to the Mayo Clinic, “SARS is caused by a strain of coronavirus, the same family of viruses that causes the common cold. Previously, these viruses had never been particularly dangerous to humans. Coronaviruses can, however, cause severe disease in animals, and that’s why scientists suspected that the SARS virus might have crossed from animals to humans.” Similar viruses. China origination. Similar panic.

Discover Magazine reported on February 3 that, “Disease-fighting agents from the immune systems of people infected with the coronavirus stopped the infection in a lab, as did those from horses that dealt with SARS. The emerging coronavirus is related to SARS, a disease that reached epidemic proportions in 2002 and 2003. Additionally, it seems the new disease latches onto cells the same way SARS does.” Discover cited researchers from China saying that it’s possible that vaccines and treatments developed for SARS could be used against this new outbreak. It is interesting to me that this coronavirus outbreak has very similar characteristics to SARS. It began in China. And China researchers are getting money from drug companies to develop a vaccine while the world panics and many people are dying. Something just doesn’t seem right.

Americanmanufacturing.org wrote in July 2018, “Many of the drugs that Americans depend upon, including birth control pills, antibiotics like penicillin, vitamin C and even cancer drugs, are made in China with little regulation. Even more alarmingly, China is aiming to become the world’s pharmacy, part of its “Made in China 2025” industry plan.” Vitamin C reportedly is being tested by Chinese researchers as one of the top mitigators of coronavirus. The vaccine development for SARS apparently was tabled after the scare abated in 2004. The cynic in me looks at the common traits of SARS and coronavirus, the political and economic aspect of both and where they originated and who benefits from it, while others die. China.

Since SARS, we have seen avian flu (2004), swine flu (2009), and don’t forget Ebola (2014) and Zika (2016). The media is whipped into a frenzy, predicting horrible events aimed at provoking fear among populations. Drug companies come to the rescue with a new vaccine. Sometime later, the side effects of the vaccine are often worse than the pandemic because the pandemic never reaches the estimations of catastrophic damage. It’s a noteworthy propaganda machine.

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

So let us not fear in all of this. Let us have a sound mind and not be ignorant about it. Take vitamin C. Cover up when coughing. Stay away from big crowds. Pray. Take measures of prevention. Also understand there are big time politics going on with these viruses.

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Beware of the New Communist Movement :: By Bill Wilson

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Salon.com has published an article heralding a new socialist movement in America led by Bernie Sanders and supported by the media.

The Salon reporters write: “The new US socialist movement is without a single “line” or monolithic political position. That’s a strength of the movement, since none of us has all the answers. Still, many people in the movement, ourselves included, feel strongly about certain approaches to strategy. One approach we feel strongly about is what we call “the democratic road to socialism,” or the idea that we need to make good use of the democratic structures and processes available to us (and to improve and expand them) in order to advance our cause.”

Notice the words “we” and “us.”

The Democratic Party is housing communists. The news media is starting to come out of the closet and proclaim their communist sympathies—even though discerning people have seen through them for a long time. Themes such as guaranteed minimum salaries and mandatory healthcare are just their pry-bars to undo the free market system, and with it, freedom.

As Salon writes: “…the capitalist class holds the entire system hostage with the threat of devastating economic retaliation if things don’t go their way, the system does have some basic democratic elements that its citizens largely affirm and occasionally participate in.”

This is selling a horrible bill of goods because everywhere in the world where socialism/communism exists, it fails. It pulls people down rather than aspires exceptionalism.

With guaranteed government jobs and mandatory healthcare, the government would have control over the financial and physical lives of every individual in the nation. This is where the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion come into play. Jesus said in Luke 4:18-19:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

He commissioned us to make disciples and to carry on his mission. The fundamental mission of government is far different than that of church.

From a Christian worldview, it is Christ’s people, not a centralized government, that must minister to the poor, and provide healing, restoration, comfort and vigilance over Liberty.

The earliest account of American history provided by Mayflower leader William Bradford indicates that the ability to worship freely was the central theme of the Pilgrims. And in that, he writes:

“We are knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond and covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves straightly tied to all care of each other’s good.”

And they proved this when they were dying sometimes two or three per day in their care for one another’s health.

When the Pilgrims were starving while trying to grow food communally, Bradford gave them their own land to till, which turned the colony around. He says,

“The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men, proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times–that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God….community property was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit and comfort.”

Beware of communists in political party clothing lest we repeat this disastrous example.

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