It was in early March 2020 that my family and I went out to eat to celebrate my birthday at a local restaurant. Little did I know at the time that it would be my last time eating out for over a year. About a week later, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued his lockdown orders and life as we knew it came grinding to a halt.
At that point, Covid had been in the news for about 2 months. At first, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. But the more I studied it, the more of a hoax the whole thing seemed. To be clear, when I say “hoax,” I don’t mean to say that it Covid wasn’t a real virus, although some people did make that claim. When I say “hoax,” I don’t mean that people didn’t get sick or die from it either. When I say Covid was a hoax, I mean that the entire narrative created around it was false. Everything from its origin, which still has not been adequately explained by official sources, to suspiciously conspiratorial undertakings events such as Event 201 held in October 2019, to the fact that it was made out to be much more deadly than it actually was by health officials using statistical legerdemain, to the fact that there was no attempt by the medical community to provide early treatment or preventative steps to keep from getting it, to the obvious attempt to censor anyone on social media who didn’t lockstep repeat the regime Covid propaganda, to the deadly hospital treatment protocols, to the forced vaccination campaigns using an obviously deadly shot, to the egregious destruction of civil liberties, to the obvious double standards – BLM and Antifa were allowed to riot while everyone else was expected to shelter in place, big box stores could remain open but mom and pop shops were locked down tighter than a drum, churches were closed but shopping malls and liquor stores could remain open – to the obvious attempts by nefarious individuals such as Bill Gates and organizations such as the Vatican, the World Health Organization, and the World Economic Forum to use Covid as an excuse to promote globalism. All these points were huge red flags.
But in my opinion, the reddest of all red flags that served as a tipoff that Covid was an engineered exercise in tyranny was how governments went after the churches. Christians are commanded in the Scriptures not to forsake the assembling of themselves on the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day, which is the Christian Sabbath. But governments everywhere were making it difficult or downright illegal for Christians to do what God had commanded.
Here in Ohio, the state recommended against churches holding services but did not outright ban it. But other states were more aggressive. One of the early, egregious violations of religious liberty took place in Kentucky. As CNN reported on April 11, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear warned that anyone attending Easter services that coming Sunday was would be ordered to quarantine for 14 days. How would Beshear’s administration know who attended Easter services? The state police would be taking down license plates, presumably in the church parking lot, and notify the attendees that this was a misdemeanor violation and require them to self-quarantine.
My reaction to this was outrage, and I don’t even live in Kentucky. Also, it was this action that removed any last lingering doubt that I had that we were not dealing with a virus, but with a deliberate, planned medical tyranny. When governments forbid what God requires, Christians should have no doubt about who is in the right and who is in the wrong.
Lux Lucet 