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by Causes | 4.7.20

Welcome to Tuesday, April 7th, felines and canines...

This Passover and Easter, will the synagogues and churches have a quorum?

As Jews and Christians prepare to celebrate Passover and Easter this week, states are debating whether religious services qualify as \"essential businesses\" amid the coronavirus pandemic that, as of Monday afternoon, has claimed over 10,000 American lives.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) recently revised his \"essential services\" order to include religious services \"conducted in churches, congregations, and houses of worship\" as essential.

But leaders from some of the country's largest religions - including Mormonism, Catholicism, Islam and various denominations of Judaism - are recommending shuttering physical worship and replacing it with digital services.

“This decision comes out of sacrificial love, not from habitual or casual disregard for worship,” the leaders of Christianity Today and the National Association of Evangelicals said in a joint statement.

Are religious services essential during the coronavirus outbreak?

For a politics-free guide to how to protect you and your loved ones from corona, click on over to our Coronavirus Info Center.

On the Radar

Free Coronavirus Treatment

Americans without health insurance coverage will be able to receive treatment for COVID-19 free of charge, following an announcement by President Donald Trump during Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.

“Today I can so proudly announce that hospitals and healthcare providers treating uninsured coronavirus patients will be reimbursed by the federal government using the economic relief package Congress passed last month,\" Trump said. \"That should alleviate any concern that uninsured Americans may have about seeking the coronavirus treatment.\"

Hospitals and other healthcare providers treating uninsured coronavirus patients will be reimbursed by the federal government through a $100 billion fund established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which Trump signed into law on March 27, 2020.

Should the uninsured get free coronavirus treatment?

On the Sonar

Carrier Captain Removed

The captain of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was relieved of his command last week, following the leak of his memo about the coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship and the ensuing firestorm it created.

Now, there are calls for his reinstatement.

Captain Brett Crozier wrote a four-page memo about the need to address the outbreak, which began after a five-day port call in Vietnam last month, that was emailed through a non-secure platform to his chain of command and an additional 20 servicemembers.

The email was ultimately forwarded to the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported the story.

Crozier's memo called for his sailors to be quarantined ashore on Guam and read in part:

“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset―our sailors.”

In his statement relieving Captain Crozier of his command, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said the Navy was already responding to the captain’s concerns when he wrote the letter and that it was sent outside the chain of command.

Modly concluded:

“Captain Crozier had allowed the complexity of his challenge with COVID breakout on the ship to overwhelm his ability to act professionally, when acting professionally was what was needed most.\"

Do you agree with the removal of Crozier as commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt?

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How to Make a Coronavirus Face Mask

And, in the End…

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Hope you have a sunny day,

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