Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus, Too
Source: The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Va. As Liberty Universitys spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Libertys student health service about the rampaging coronavirus.
Weve lost the ability to corral this thing, Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, This is what you should do and this is what you shouldnt do, Dr. Eppes said in an interview.
So Mr. Falwell a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.
Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law, Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.
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Gothmog
(145,176 posts)sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)Just write another check to Mr. Falwell, and you'll fell much better.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Not.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)FUCK THIS PRICK
ResistantAmerican17
(3,806 posts)sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)MANative
(4,112 posts)When the death toll soars, maybe we can discredit evangelical lunacy once and for all.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)isn't everything closed?
gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)Canoe52
(2,948 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,806 posts)Jesus has the wheel.
spike jones
(1,678 posts)He was a preacher and the family very church-going Christians, of course. They had never experienced a violent thunderstorm with the great wind and buckets of blowing rain and flashes of lightning and thunder that rattled the windows. When one came through, they sat pale faced huddled on the couch while me and my children went out on the porch to watch it happen.
Some months later we heard that he had left the ministry and was selling insurance.
ResistantAmerican17
(3,806 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)spike jones
(1,678 posts)[link:
|tclambert
(11,085 posts)I'd never heard it before. I like how weird it is. I've never heard of a chocolate Jesus before, either. Is that a real thing? What do you do with it? Just eat it? Eating Jesus seems wrong. Well, unless he's in wafer form during communion. And you have to wash him down with his own blood, which tastes remarkably like red wine. Well, for Pentecostals his blood tastes like unfermented grape juice. They don't approve of alcohol and strain the interpretations of the Bible mightily anywhere it mentions wine, which it does a lot. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine.
Plastic Jesus is a real thing. These days, you can find Him in bobblehead form. Plastic Madonnas and plastic saints are real, too. But no plastic Holy Ghosts.
spike jones
(1,678 posts)Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
Its easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
TEB
(12,842 posts)You are my hero
lonely bird
(1,685 posts)Then he is just as responsible as the asshat Falwell, Jr.
Rebl2
(13,498 posts)guess it means fewer young Republicans and lawsuits from the parents.
Firestorm49
(4,032 posts)Then we can see how good prayer stacks up against a deadly virus. Good Luck.
keithbvadu2
(36,792 posts)Girard442
(6,070 posts)This will be the words that define Eppes until the day he dies, the little toad.*
*Apologies to actual hardworking toads, who are splendid animals.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)Did they kneel while praying? Maybe they didn't kneel enough.
Did they pray to the Lord Jesus or to Donald Trump? Sometimes conservatives have trouble keeping their gods straight.
DenverJared
(457 posts)and hate to say it (I don't wish coronavirus or any sickness on anyone) ... couldn't have happened in a better place
pstokely
(10,528 posts)haven't held of any cancelling them? I don't they if liberty fake u still does this, but they required off campus apartments be visited by by someone of from student affairs to make sure they were in compliance with their rules.
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)Fuhgeddaboudit.
la-trucker
(283 posts)if this weren't a tragedy and a risk to people's lives.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)To add to the piles.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)flip the pages of their Bibles at high speed.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)they might have only be going there because their parents made them or liberty fake u gave them a really good deal because their GPA or ACT scores were on the higher end of their applicants, they have low admission standards
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)pstokely
(10,528 posts)other than to get things out of the dorms?