When this is all over, I think there will be one demographic that will suffer far worse than others
and that is the Evangelicals and the sort of die-hard Christians. Like the types that would attend a mass service or that stupid "Woodstock" event the one pastor wants to do.
I had an interaction with a coworker the night before last, a guy who I like, great sense of humor and all, but when I told him he needs to get himself some sort of mask to wear when he is around other drivers, he told me the only mask he needed was Psalm 23; "The Lord is my shepherd"...etc.
I tried to explain to him a little bit about how this virus is transmitted, and he did listen to what I had to say, but at the end of it, his response was Psalm 23.
Now I realize there isn't likely to be any survey or research done on this specific question, but I am frankly convinced that the most severely affected groups will be Christians and other religions who are convinced their god will save them.
Note the major outbreak in Albany, GA was apparently started from folks gathering for a funeral or two.
This is a slow moving nightmare and religion is making it worse.
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... poor people will suffer most. I know they say there will be help and there will be no cost, but I see it's harder for poor people to get tested, get treatment, etc... people with no health care may not know how to get this so-called "free" help, either...
... certain he has/had it - but could not get a test. He's better, now, after two weeks. He was not counted. Also, people are probably not listed correctly on some death certificates, because they died without being tested. I think they want to keep the official numbers down... for Crooked Donald. Of course, other countries do the same thing.
Unfortunately! 
The trend in evangelical churches for many years has been to build megachurches all over the country. We have a number of them her in north central KY.
I believe many of the congregants give their church every last penny they can spare. Considering the economic shit is now hitting the fan, who is going to pay to maintain those huge properties and buildings and pay all the insurance, utilities, etc. as they stand empty?
And, who is going to pay the mega-preacher's inflated salary along with that if the operational staff? Hell, some of them even have private jets that must be maintained.
Don't think their common folks out of work are going to be tithing for quite a while.....
KY.......
Look, he's got several tractor trailer to stash his money in...
Just looked the place over on Google maps and there's a series of huge buildings including one just for TV studios.
We Americans are a naive, gullible lot.......
No small wonder Republicans hitched their wagon to grifters like Copeland.
in the core moral values and sense of purpose of most of our churches.
When I was attending my little country Southern Baptist church in the 50s and 60s, all the local churches embraced the ideals of love of fellow man, humility and non-evangelicalism. They were a positive element of our communities, along with schools and dozens of small home-owned businesses.
The churches were minimal and well kept, mostly by the congregants.
Preachers of those churches received little more than a subsistence salary and in fact it was so slim that once or twice a year, the congregation held what was called a "pounding" where the congregation brought in food and supplies for the pastor.
So, we can easily see how American religion has drifter far away from its roots and has in essence become a business venture.
If Copeland had walked though the door back then, he would be seen as one needing salvation.
KY.......
There's a strong parallel to that in the destruction of almost all our family-owned small businesses across the nation by big box stores. Those little stores were a huge part of the heart of our communities.
When I was young in a small farming town of 880 or 900 people in the 50s and 60s, all businesses in town were locally owned and we could get most everything we needed in town.
My memory is foggy on the numbers but I believe we had four grocery stores, four gas station/garages, a bank and post office, three or four clothing stores (one was men only), two jewelers, two barber shops, a radio/TV repair shop, a pool hall, a drug store, a five-and-dime store, a Carnation Dairy, three feed stores, a Belknap Hardware and a Western Auto. Oh, and a grammar school and high school. Whew!
Of course, that served quite a large area of farms over many miles. A very self-contained life.
We must never lose sight of the fact that free-market Republicans do not want us to have community because it threatens their quest for power and control of society.
Community means people interacting and debating and taking action in their own interest.
KY rant done!.......
would replace all those businesses you listed, if they haven't already. Possibly including the schools.
have to distance properly.
I guess this is where God sorts them out.
Here's a poor guy who poured his whole soul into educating the world about the flood. Now nobody's gonna be able to learn about it because of Obama's stay at home directive.
Then, when no body comes, he's gonna be foreclosed on. That sucks.
Obama 
And feed the imaginary elephants? I personally don't know a soul that's been there from my area of north central KY, but there's likely lots of local evangelicals that have been at least once. He screwed that county out of lots of money with little return.
This perspective caught my eye on Wikipedia:
In other words, he's a grifter and his dogma is a brainwashing drug......
Would have done them, regardless of religion.
one more thing religion has done to eff up the world.
