Will the Cure Kill the Patient?

With the fear of the corona virus even more rampant than the virus, will the measures to curb the panic inflict more damage than the disease itself? Only time will tell. Curtailing business hours or actually closing businesses will cause a deep chasm that our country and possibly the entire world may take a decade to escape if it can at all. Before the closures, many businesses could ill afford the impact of the forced closures. Many will limp along for awhile after reopening then fail by the governmental sanctions.

Supply chains will be severed. Manufacturing jobs will be lost. Food service employees may never be called back to work. Loss of jobs will limit the ability of people to purchase homes, vehicles, and multiple other items. If Americans don’t curb the desire to live at the same level before the governmental intervention, debt will rise inflating personal deficit and deflating the purchasing power of our currency.

The life savings of the middle class may be eradicated. The level of living for those on a fixed income will sink even lower, forcing them to decide whether to eat, buy medications, heat their homes, or pay their rent or house payments. They will have to choose if they are able to buy gasoline or to insure their home or vehicle. Will they lose their home because of the ever increasing load of taxes or will they fall victim to the rising cost of living?

The fear that the government has induced with their restrictions so far has spurred the panic. It’s limited our freedom to assemble, freedom to pursue happiness, earn our wages, and threatens us with violence or financial penalties if we disregard those intrusions into our lives.

Those incursions into our freedoms are only one step away from martial law. Our American forefathers told England to cease and desist and when they chose to ignore the colonists; our militia trounced them and sent them packing back across the sea. Will it take another war to regain what the fear of the corona virus has taken from us? The government seeks to buy our silence with stimulus payments. To me this smacks of Socialism.

I know that people are fearful, but there is peace; a peace that passes mankind’s understanding. It’s found in a relationship with Christ Jesus. No matter what the world throws at us, those who seek the Savior will have their eternal destination assured. Psalm 23 is but one comforting chapter in the Bible that allays fear and shows how God will care for us.