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The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19's danger

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A number of American religious leaders have endangered their flock by holding services – and by claiming the virus can be defeated by faith in God

Last Sunday in Tampa, Florida, the Pentecostal pastor and conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne conducted two services for full houses at his River church


The closely packed audience spent hours together taking in hymns and Howard-Browne’s extended sermon, even as the state implemented quarantine for New Yorkers, and projections estimated that Florida’s coronavirus death toll would rise into the thousands.

But Howard-Browne is just one of the most prominent religious leaders on the Christian right who are endangering their flocks and the rest of America by claiming the virus is a hoax, or that it can only be defeated by supernatural means, rather than solid healthcare policy.
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Faith in God & $1.25 could get you a NYC subway ticket.
When I lived there a token was only 15 cents. It may have gone up since the last time I took it. I'm pretty sure it didn't go down.
 

A number of American religious leaders have endangered their flock by holding services – and by claiming the virus can be defeated by faith in God

Last Sunday in Tampa, Florida, the Pentecostal pastor and conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne conducted two services for full houses at his River church


The closely packed audience spent hours together taking in hymns and Howard-Browne’s extended sermon, even as the state implemented quarantine for New Yorkers, and projections estimated that Florida’s coronavirus death toll would rise into the thousands.

But Howard-Browne is just one of the most prominent religious leaders on the Christian right who are endangering their flocks and the rest of America by claiming the virus is a hoax, or that it can only be defeated by supernatural means, rather than solid healthcare policy.
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Faith in God & $1.25 could get you a NYC subway ticket.
When I lived there a token was only 15 cents. It may have gone up since the last time I took it. I'm pretty sure it didn't go down.
It's $2.75 now.
 
It's $2.75 now.

I'm nostalgic over the old 15 cent token.

I have a feeling that a lot of the subway fare increase is the result of mismanagement.
 
I'm nostalgic over the old 15 cent token.
I have a feeling that a lot of the subway fare increase is the result of mismanagement.
In any organization that large, there's bound to be its fair share of mismanagement. But its much improved over recent years. Considering the size and the age of the system, it is run much better than similar ones. Case in point, the PATH system (owned and operated by the Port Authority) a smaller, and one would think, more manageable subway system, runs from Newark NJ into Manhattan at two locations. It has actual operating costs 1.5X higher per passenger mile than the NYC subway.
 
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