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April 11, 2020

Sunrise, 6:26.

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Mark said...: From an ancient homily for Holy Saturday

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory.

At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” . . .; 4/11/20, 8:38 AM
Ken B said...: Listening to the St John Passion by Bach
There are numerous good recordings. I am listening to the one from Japan, led by Suzuki.; 4/11/20, 8:43 AM
iowan2 said...: Our daughter mentioned in passing, about her sorrow, that the Pella Tulip Festival, fell victim to the WuFlu.
But! That means its an opportunity. So we are on a road trip to stroll the all the beautiful tulips in thousands of beds around the City of Pella. Festivities will be absent, along with the crowds, but the Tulips have reported for duty!; 4/11/20, 9:19 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Lovely!; 4/11/20, 9:25 AM
Mark said...: Good news is that today is NOT a fast day.

Then again, it might be a good and healthy practice if every Friday were a day for fasting from here on out.; 4/11/20, 9:36 AM
tim in vermont said...: Over at Instapundit, somebody posted the graph of all cause deaths in NYC compared to historical averages by time of year, which of course showed a towering spike, a spike that towered over 9-11 even. What did the good people over at Insty do? They marked it as “spam” and got it deleted.; 4/11/20, 10:18 AM
tim in vermont said...: A prominent star is dimming. A comet is on the way. Krakatoa is starting to act up. How many more seals are we talking about?; 4/11/20, 10:30 AM
Ken B said...: Tim
Denialism is spreading in the Trumposphere. And since the sale Instapundit has declined, especially with Hoyt, Driscoll, and Martin posting there.; 4/11/20, 10:35 AM
tim in vermont said...: I have said it before, there are two ways to deal with fear, evidently, denial, and displacement. Trump’s base is in denial, and Hillary’s base is scapegoating Trump.

My IRL Hillary supporting friends have become ridiculous. They can’t go more than ten minutes without bringing up how much they hate Trump and are convinced that if it weren’t for Trump, we wouldn’t be going through this.; 4/11/20, 10:49 AM
Paco Wové said...: "there are two ways to deal with fear"

A third way is to just give in to it, luxuriate in it, let it ooze out your pores.; 4/11/20, 10:58 AM
tim in vermont said...: "A third way is to just give in to it, luxuriate in it, let it ooze out your pores.”

Is that what you are doing? Getting so scared by it that you can’t even look the facts in the eye? I am looking at it in as clear eyed a manner as I can, making my judgements using my educational background and life experience and gathering what information I can to do what is best for my family and myself.

Burying one's head in the sand like an ostrich and attacking people who disagree and batting away uncomfortable information is certainly another way of dealing with it.; 4/11/20, 11:04 AM
Marc in Eugene said...: I followed the Tenebrae service livestreamed from St Mary's Shrine in Warrington, England beginning at two this morning (as on Thursday also and yesterday). A magnificent celebration of the Triduum liturgy.

The candelabrum used to support the fifteen candles is called a hearse, from the French herse from the Latin irpex, hirpex, which is a rake or harrow (think, maybe, those sort of rakes that have a fan of thin metal teeth).

Discovered this morning that the city buses are now requiring the use of paper or cloth masks, since two days ago, tsk; don't know how I can have missed that. If 'cloth mask' can be interpreted to mean an old undershirt tied around my face, I guess I'm good to go. This is a foolish imposition and one, since it is not imposed by the state (unless I missed that, too), is entirely up to the city bureaucrats to relieve us of-- good luck with that.

And after three days of cheerful sun, the skies are overcast and the heater is running. Tsk.; 4/11/20, 11:11 AM
Ken B said...: Tim
That's how many are looking at it, but they are marinating in fear about their 401k and economic disruption. Rather than a serious discussion of how and where to open, and how to know if it works we get bleats about “open it now” and “we were lied to” and so called plans to re open that don’t involve testing but do include liability waivers! And as ever, “let the fat ones die”. Just a complete lack of seriousness.; 4/11/20, 11:11 AM
Mark said...: More from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday --

[Christ crucified has gone down to the abode of the dead.]

“Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light,” He said.

"I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise.

"I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated.

"For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden.

"See on my face the spittle I received in order to restore to you the life I once breathed into you. See there the marks of the blows I received in order to refashion your warped nature in my image. On my back see the marks of the scourging I endured to remove the burden of sin that weighs upon your back. See my hands, nailed firmly to a tree, for you who once wickedly stretched out your hand to a tree.

"I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side for you who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side has healed the pain in yours. My sleep will rouse you from your sleep in hell. The sword that pierced me has sheathed the sword that was turned against you.

"Rise, let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise. I will not restore you to that paradise, but I will enthrone you in heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a symbol of life, but see, I who am life itself am now one with you. I appointed cherubim to guard you as slaves are guarded, but now I make them worship you as God.

"The throne formed by cherubim awaits you, its bearers swift and eager. The bridal chamber is adorned, the banquet is ready, the eternal dwelling places are prepared, the treasure houses of all good things lie open. The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity."; 4/11/20, 11:21 AM
Paco Wové said...: "I am looking at it in as clear eyed a manner as I can"

Oh, is that what you call it? It looks like hysterical, unprovoked, and repeated personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with you, but I probably don't have your professional experience.; 4/11/20, 11:33 AM
tim in vermont said...: "Oh, is that what you call it? It looks like hysterical, unprovoked, and repeated personal attacks on anyone “

I don’t think so. But in your emotion way of reasoning about this, I am sure that’s how it looks to you.; 4/11/20, 11:40 AM
Original Mike said...: "I have said it before, there are two ways to deal with fear, evidently, denial, and displacement."

Or there's obsession.; 4/11/20, 11:52 AM
Mark said...: I have said it before, there are two ways to deal with fear, evidently, denial, and displacement.

What a sad way of viewing the world.

I prefer hope in dealing with fear.

Note, hope is not desperate wishful thinking. True hope is the confident expectation that no matter how dark the night, there will be a new dawn.; 4/11/20, 12:00 PM
Ken B said...: Volokh https://reason.com/2020/04/04/liberty-of-movement-and-assembly/; 4/11/20, 12:01 PM
Ken B said...: “ What a sad way of viewing the world.”

What a sad way of not understanding why Tim used “evidently”.; 4/11/20, 12:02 PM
tim in vermont said...: "True hope is the confident expectation that no matter how dark the night, there will be a new dawn.”

Count me under the “hope” column then. I think that no matter how dark the night, we still need to be able to look at threats squarely in the eye and still have a responsibility to those who depend on us to think clearly through the crisis, which will surely pass.

But yes, it is sad to see so many people dealing with this crisis through the kinds of emotional reasoning that relies so much on defense mechanisms rather than logic.; 4/11/20, 12:23 PM
tim in vermont said...: Daily death count Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim from March 18 to April 8 per New York Times DB.

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It’s easy to claim that California is somehow immune, but LA is turning into a little bit of a hotspot. Deaths doubling in around 5-7 days. The case reporting is so uneven it’s kind of useless, but the death counts are probably pretty solid.

Most of the places I looked at in California and Florida have been declining, BTW. This is what Trump was talking about, we need to address hotspots with resources as we open the economy back up. The dashboard I am working on is to highlight this stuff using statistical process control.; 4/11/20, 12:59 PM
Mark said...: Count me under the “hope” column then.

"Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of hope!"; 4/11/20, 1:03 PM
tim in vermont said...: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara? Looks pretty much like a nasty flu.

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Like the rest of California, at least the parts I looked at.; 4/11/20, 1:24 PM
Ken B said...: I don’t understand your numbers Tim in v. It looks like lots more deaths at the end of the month than at the beginning. But I am told that never happens.
Except in New York, where it doesn’t matter.; 4/11/20, 1:49 PM
Ken B said...: Metaphor https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1248914279438397442?s=19; 4/11/20, 2:14 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: After having no person-to-person interaction with people outside the home for a month, the age-old "Is this a cold or allergies?" question has been answered.; 4/11/20, 5:13 PM
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iowan2 said...: Reporting back from our Pella trip, checking out the tulips. Not a bust, but not many tulips blooming yet. So don't road trip to Pella till next weekend. Still not sure though. We have below ave temps next week, and I think the rate of blooming is controlled by growing degree days, not length of day.
But not a complete waste. The Dutch Bakeries have not shut down, and Dutch Letters, and Cream Horns are in great supply. Down a few doors, the butcher shop, still pushing out Ring Bologna, Summer Sausage, and dried beef. Drive around Red Rock Lake, walk some trails with the dog, and back home.; 4/11/20, 9:11 PM