Nov. 20(?) - Nov. 21 (?): Triple-jabbed Minnesota man exposed to Omicron variant in NYC
Nov. 22: Minnesota man returns to Minnesota
Nov. 22 or 23: Minnesota man learns that friend in NYC is COVID-positive; takes at-home and PCR COVID tests
Nov. 24: South Africa reports their discovery of Omicron variant
Nov. 26: WHO declares Omicron a variant of interest
Nov. 26: Biden administration announces travel restrictions
Nov. 29: U.S. travel restrictions take effect
Nov. 29(?) : Minnesota man called for routine contact tracing
Dec. 1: Minnesota man informed that he has Omicron variant
All the major COVID variants came from overseas. This pandemic won't be over until the borders are closed, and kept that way...including the southern border.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
