One
of the major pillars of Gov Edwards’s New Normal is called ‘contact
tracing’. The web site of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists the following as ‘Key Concepts’
of contact tracing:
-‘Trace
and monitor contacts of infected people. Notify them of their exposure.
-‘Support
the quarantine of contacts. Help ensure the safe, sustainable and
effective quarantine of contacts to prevent additional transmission.
-‘Expand
staffing resources. Contact tracing in the US will require that states,
tribes, localities and territorial establish large cadres of contact tracers.
-‘Use
digital tools. Adoption and evaluation of digital tools may expand reach
and efficacy of contact tracers.’
Source
page: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/open-america/contact-tracing.html
We
understand that a great many folks have been scared witless about the COVID
illness by the nonstop stoking of fear by various media outlets and government
officials. But we all need to stop, get
hold of ourselves, and make sure we really want to walk through the door
contact tracing is opening up for us here in Louisiana.
There
are a number of disturbing implications that come along with it. First, expanded surveillance and tracking of
every man, woman, and child. Second,
forced incarceration without appeal.
Third, a huge growth of the government bureaucracy in the form of spies
and tattletales.
This
is bitterly at odds with our venerable old legal traditions - such as suspicion
of an actual crime having been committed before an investigation of someone can
begin (having a virus in one’s body, last we checked, did not violate any law);
the presumption of innocence of the accused; the need to acquire a warrant from
a judge to be able to pry into someone’s private life (who he’s had contact
with, in this case); the ability to freely associate with others; as well as
having a jury trial before someone can be locked up for any length of time.
Again,
we must be absolutely sure that we want to open this door, because it may be
generations before we are able to close it.
In the meantime, however, we would be trapped in an updated version of
the gulag whose invasive reach and insidious powers of coercion would shame anything
the Soviets were able to come up with.
No,
let us leave that door closed. Instead, the
folk of Louisiana ought to return to the Christian wisdom of our French
forefathers who settled in Acadiana.
They brought to St Martinville in the 18th century a bone
relic of St Martin of Tours, one of the main patron saints of France, who has poured
forth streams of healing both during his lifetime and after his repose in the
Lord in 397 A.D. If we want true
healing, of body and soul, let us humbly seek it through the prayers of this
wonderful intercessor before the throne of God for the French people, including
the people of la Louisiane.
But
do we have courage enough to even open the doors of the St Martin de Tours
Church in St Martinville, where his holy and blessed bone relic rests, much
less the faith needed to ask God to help us through St Martin’s prayers? Our sickness goes far beyond a virus of the
body. Nevertheless, let all Louisianans,
wherever we are, whether before his Grace-filled relic or not, cry out to our
loving holy father, St Martin of Tours, for his fervent prayers for our
deliverance from the COVID sickness and from all misfortune.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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