Brookings Institute wrote:
...Because this recession is unprecedented in so many ways, forecasting the recovery is difficult. The course of the pandemic itself is by far the most important factor. As long as people fear catching a potentially deadly illness from other people, they will be cautious about resuming normal activities, even after state and local governments lift lockdowns. Thus, controlling the spread of the virus must be the first priority for restoring more-normal levels of economic activity—but, more importantly, for saving possibly tens of thousands of lives...

Webster's 1913 Dictionary wrote:
Flaunt , v. t. To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

A good word for describing what John is doing , he may have done it beforeâť—đź‘Ž

I'm rather surprised that an Religious News Service writer was somewhat sarcastic about John MacArthur's opinion on the Coronavirus. He said in part,

Mark Silk wrote:
....
Thus, "when any government official issues orders regulating worship (such as bans on singing, caps on attendance, or prohibitions against gatherings and services), he steps outside the legitimate bounds of his God-ordained authority as a civic official."

Presumably Grace Community Church would take the position that the government also has no business prohibiting snake-handling on the part of Christians who believe in that practice. Ritual cannibalism would be a bridge too far, I guess, but only because the obligation of civic authorities not to interfere extends only to Christianity....

Eric Tlozek and Fouad AbuGosh wrote:
Israel is about to become the first nation to return to a full lockdown to slow a severe second wave of infections.
Key points:

• Israel will impose another nationwide lockdown on September 18
• The country has experienced a new surge in COVID-19 cases
• Religious mass gatherings and political upheaval are widely blamed for the second wave
....
As it prepares for a second nationwide lockdown ahead of the Jewish high holidays on September 18, the Government could be facing mass disobedience....

https://tinyurl.com/y54oqt4c

32. “But of that day or that hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33. Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

John of UK, I don't think there's going to be a straight path like some super highway from A to b but more like a mountain road with a lot of twists and turns, it will get to where it's supposed to go, but there will be probably some confusion for many people where it is going.

Thomas Ice wrote:
....
Whatever views were maintained as to Israel’s political restoration, their spiritual future was simply a given in Reformed circles. Ironically, this sure and certain hope is not a truth kept burning brightly in many Christian Reformed Churches today, . . . In fact, their future conversion aside, the Jews’ very existence is rarely referred to today, and even then it is not with much grace or balance....

[See: https://tinyurl.com/gmxgbsm (Exposing Hidden Anti-Semitism in the Church)]

"Netanyahu’s Annexation Plans Meet Surprise Opponent: Israeli Settlers"

https://tinyurl.com/yarr6uee

Conservative American Christians look forward to Israel for fulfilling it's biblical destiny of obtaining land that it should have.

Warren Throckmorton wrote:
On Fox News Thursday night, John MacArthur said he is planning to have church on Sunday despite the California Superior Court preliminary injunction barring indoor church. Watch:...

Exodus 29:44

I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.

Adam Clarke's commentary on the Bible wrote:
Exodus 29
Verse 44. I will sanctify-both Aaron and his sons] So we find
the sanctification by Moses according to the Divine institution
was only symbolical; and that Aaron and his sons must be
sanctified, i.e., made holy, by God himself before they could
officiate in holy things. From this, as well as from many other
things mentioned in the sacred writings, we may safely infer that
no designation by man only is sufficient to qualify any person to
fill the office of a minister of the sanctuary. The approbation
and consecration of man have both their propriety and use, but
must never be made substitutes for the unction and inspiration
of the Almighty. Let holy men ordain, but let God sanctify; then
we may expect that his Church shall be built up on its most holy
faith.

https://tinyurl.com/y6xltq3j

Alex Mahadevan and Jon Greenberg wrote:
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Some of the criticisms of Fauci focus on statements that came when little was known about the disease. You might remember in May, I called out a YouTube channel that uploaded an old clip of Fauci saying masks were not necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19

https://tinyurl.com/yybkqmf9

as if it was new — the video segment was from more than two months earlier. (By the way, I did finally hear back from the user who uploaded it, who said: “Personally I don’t have an opinion on Dr. Fauci, good or bad.”)....

https://tinyurl.com/y2qmrxut

https://tinyurl.com/y2a244tl

Warren Throckmorton wrote:
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While there is no hint in these statements about what MacArthur and Grace will do Sunday, there is no indication he will back off. The next scheduled hearing is October 22...

MacArthur didn't back off.

LA county has shown great forbearance to the petulant MacArthur.

Ashley Springman wrote:
The new rules will apply statewide except in Lancaster County, which includes the state capital of of Lincoln, home to the University of Nebraska’s flagship campus....
....
Lincoln-Lancaster County Public Health Director Pat Lopez has said her county won’t ease its restrictions this month because of a recent increase in cases driven by returning college students and the reopening of Lincoln Public Schools, the state’s second-largest school district.

“This is the time not only to stay the course, but also to redouble our efforts in Lancaster County,” Lopez said. “We need to do what is best for our community to overcome the impacts of this virus.”...

https://tinyurl.com/y4brwuu2

"Fauci at odds with Trump: Downplaying virus threat 'not a good thing,' no 'normal' until at least mid-2021"

"Navajo Nation, reeling from coronavirus, focuses attention on elections"

German Lopez wrote:
One big lesson: You can’t give up early on social distancing.
....
One of the key lessons from the comparison between St. Louis and Philadelphia: Good leadership makes a difference.

“In 1918, there were some cities that had really good leaders. They had really good health commissioners who worked well with mayors and worked well with the superintendent of schools and police force and what have you,” Markel said. “And then there were others that were really bad. In Pennsylvania, the mayors of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were fighting with the governor, and the governor was fighting with the state health commissioner.”

This, experts say, is key: Americans are being asked to make sacrifices — potentially isolating themselves from their loved ones, giving up activities they value, and maybe losing income. It’s on the nation’s leaders to guide Americans through this, assuring them that they’re doing the right thing and that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

“You really need very strong leadership from the top,” Céline Gounder, an epidemiologist at New York University, told me....