Welcome, and we are re the satoe wr thoswho mi akertu so that part of quakerism i belong to, we call it a Friends Meeting rather than a Friends Church although there is such a thing as a Friends Church, and we worship in silence. So we sit in silence and wait upon the spirits and then people might speak out of the silence as they are moved by the spirit. So in an hour we might get a few messages. And then we just kind of return to the silence and stay in that space. We dont have ordained clergy, we all take responsibility and we do everything by committee which often happens in churches. And in a quaker community, what would be some of the other activities are ministries that might occur there . Theres always been a close relationship in our tradition between our faith and our actions, particularly work in the world related to social justice, the environment, and so forth. So theres a lot of work, we have committees to do that. We also have a worship and Ministry Committee and a Pastor
Have heavy crime tape restrictions in place and heavy restrictions on any foreigners trying to enter china and this is simply chinas why of dealing with what they believe could be a 2nd wave of infections 180 cases its certainly not a Great Development but china would say its particularly in recovery mode at this stage compared to the rest of the world but there have been a number of questions about the accuracy of these figures coming out of china weve had last week a senior british minister Michael Goves questioning tried as transparency about the effectiveness of this particular virus and present donald trump has also said he questions the number of deaths he said the death toll is on the light side looking at the overall figures coming out of china the total number of deaths of 3343. 00 so thats certainly low in comparison to the rest of the world and 83134 cases of the crowd a virus infection so this is why the questions are appearing and increasing about chinas transparency and i
Are being affected dramatically by covert 19 was it originated in china but by march it was clear the coronavirus was a global problem. Italy altered a National Lockdown 2 days later the World Health Organization made a red declaration deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the island mean the level of this action. We have that for a man to be an assessment that 19 can be contacted i used as a pandemic when the w. H. O. Declared a pandemic all march the 11th there was a total of 118000 cases globally nearly 4300 people had died but 90 percent of those infected with hiv 19 were in just 4 countries china south korea italy and iran a month later much has changed the number of known infections is approaching 2000000 across more than 180 countries and around 100000 people have died the United States has more confirmed cases than any other country wealthy nations with sophisticated Health Care Systems have struggled to contain the virus so what chances that the
A new grim milestone on friday it was at the United States had crossed 500000 recorded cases of the coronavirus on saturday is that the u. S. Is now registered 20000 deaths more than any other country including italy and as you point out one 3rd of those cases was from new york state alone new York New Jersey and michigan being the hardest hit of all states so far and u. S. Health Officials Say they believe the infection are going to peak on Easter Sunday this coming sunday that was originally a date when President Trump is 81 of the u. S. To come out of this shelter in place orders and want to business to be back and moving again that is no longer happening that date seems to moved to may 1st and there are a lot of Public Health officials who are skeptical even about that date but there are places here in the United States where pastors are keeping churches open most states 43 states have locked down orders 7 of them do not but of the states that have lockdown orders Something Like 51
A nationwide the number of new cases per day is flattening substantially suggesting that we are near the peak and comprehensive strategy is working overtime or guidelines to slow the spread or decreasing the rate of new cases very substantially and will result in fewer hospital admissions and were seeing that its. Incredible i think with with no exceptions its looking like its low. The u. K. Has reported its highest daily death toll but there are signs the number of cases are leveling out in spain and italy the italian Prime Minister says restrictions there will be extended dominic kane reports from berlin. Its a stark example of what the coronaviruses done to this continent the traditional good friday papal Passion Service in rome and pope francis forced to preside over a ceremony with almost no congregation because the pandemic continues to kill thousands of people every day we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among Health Workers in some countrie