Cases Skyrocket As Superspreader Church Refuses to Host COVID Testing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Beast

Officials have tied 82 infections and three deaths to events at the Charlotte, North Carolina, church that brought people from multiple states.

Olivia Messer
Reporter
Published Oct. 23, 2020 4:32AM ET

An annual, multi-day gathering at a massive Charlotte, North Carolina-based church has emerged as a likely superspreader event, feeding the largest COVID-19 outbreak in the county and apparently infecting at least 82 people, three of whom have died, according to local officials.

The clash between in-person worship and pandemic guidelines has sparked outrage, tension, and superspreader events in recent weeks all over the country—from California to Maine. Adding insult to injury at the outbreak in Charlotte, officials and health providers said that the church refused to let anyone set up on-site testing.

“We’ve offered our services and offered our services with no response,” Sylvia Grier, a management services officer at the nonprofit Genesis Project, a local mental and behavioral health agency that offers free coronavirus testing to residents, told The Daily Beast.

United House of Prayer for All People is a palatial, jewel-toned structure guarded by statues of lions on either side of the entryway, where blue and red crosses hang high. The church was founded a century ago and is known to this day for its “shout” bands and mass baptisms, as The Charlotte Observer reported.



Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/united-house-of-prayer-for-all-people-in-charlotte-north-carolina-spread-coronavirus-locals-say

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. ...

[Judi Lynn]

7. Tremendous gif. Thanks. ⭐️

[ResistantAmerican17]

2. So if I understand this event, hundreds came to hear about Jesus,

87 found out he isn’t a cure all, and 3 met him. Ok, what’s for lunch?

[erronis]

13. Perfect!

The rest will probably come back for another chance.

[ResistantAmerican17]

22. For sure. These idiots are nothing if not persistent

[Cha]

3. KR

[COL Mustard]

4. I Guess They're Anxious To Find Jesus !

I’m sorry people have gotten sick and died, but damn!!!

[Sherman A1]

5. There is a term for this........

Stupid, I believe is it.

[Bengus81]

6. And...if that would have been gays back in the 80's doing something simliar

Republicans and their beer gut, red neck base would have been calling for decades of jail time and/or the death sentence for those responsible for the "event" even though AIDS couldn't be spread like Covid.

[COL Mustard]

8. We've Got About 15,000 Of These People Coming To DC This Sunday

To "worship" on the National Mall.

Think I'll keep my pattern of the past 40 years or so and stay home.

[pwb]

9. Who is we?

.

[COL Mustard]

11. DC-Area Residents

[SheltieLover]

18. WTAF???

This is being allowed???

Such a shame the virus cannot discriminate between stupidity & arrogance vs intellect & caution.

Stay safe!

[paleotn]

25. Why? Simple....

Religion in America is like the pigs in Animal Farm...."we're all equal, but some are more equal than others."

[SheltieLover]

26. Yes

But wtf is with these mass super spreader events?

Why are churches trying to kill their golden geese?

And how did they get so many to follow man-made rules?

[IronLionZion]

20. Same with the Bible museum, no masks or social distancing there so I steer clear of them

The Smithsonians are strict and use timed entry passes but the bible crowd really like to spread it around in case this is the rapture or something like that.

[Blues Heron]

10. They need to get serious with these morons

shut them down, padlock the gate, arrest anyone who tries to get in.

[The Last James Left]

12. I'm Sure THEY'RE Sure Jezzus will Take Care of It

s!

[Fix The Stupid]

14. "Its a start..."....

Yeah, probably a little offsides, but I don't care...these people are nuts and are endangering us all.

[louis-t]

15. Did they find squirt guns full of poisoned kool-aid

on any of them? Just askin'.

[rdking647]

16. sue the church out of existence

[SheltieLover]

17. Why are they compellled to do these gatherings?

Does worshipping at home not "count" or something?

[Chakaconcarne]

24. People are less inclined to fill the donation box if remote..

[SheltieLover]

27. Of course

But how do they get people to buy into this bs???

[AllaN01Bear]

19. ive been worshiping at home since this started . some use zoom and other conferncing tools.

the episcopal national cathederal is on youtube doing daily services .
we had a meeting at our priests house to tell us what the service would look like when we got the go ahead for a hard start in the church. some of the trumpers in the congrigation raild against our bishop and decided to do home church with out safeguard . i and a number didnt and wont go.untill we get permission to hard start and even then ill be cautious.

[IronLionZion]

21. There may be fewer of them around election day

and we know they are probably not liberals.

[paleotn]

23. Religo-nuttery finds yet another way to kill people...

When will we finally toss magical thinking and it's parasitic cons to the dust bin of barbarism? Its evolutionary benefit ended long, long ago, and it's become a threat to our very existence as a species.

[Karma13612]

28. So, if a local hospital set up

Screening tents, would they shew them away as well?
This is just nuts.

[Warpy]

29. Daddy Grace's bunch

They were responsible for the first end of the world prediction I can remember. We were all sitting in class, watching the clock, and disappointed when it didn't happen, algebra was next for most of us.

The church has changed a lot, I remember a frame structure painted red, white and blue. I also remember they welcomed people of all colors and ethnicities, something that distinguished them from most other churches in the south in the late 50s.

I'm not surprised they're superspreading this infection As welcoming as they were, they were still Pentecostal, the clamber up to heaven more important than any other consideration, like how many of their fellows they injure in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelino_Manuel_da_Gra%C3%A7a

[RussBLib]

30. religion is deadly

always has been

either for the non-believers or the believers