Flatten the curve of traffic deaths

“We are extremely troubled by the increasing number of deaths and cases across our country related to COVID-19. Doctors, scientists, and public health professionals are all searching for a cure or a vaccine to eliminate this virus as quickly as possible. At the NTSB, we’re incredibly grateful for all those professionals—including those transporting vital supplies around the country. If Americans can choose to stay home to help slow the spread of COVID-19, imagine the impact we could have if everyone chose to make the safest driving choices for ourselves and our fellow road users. We have the power to flatten the curve of traffic deaths by making safe choices every day.”

Read more: Flatten the Curve Beyond COVID-19 https://safetycompass.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/flatten-the-curve-beyond-covid-19/ via @NTSB

For the orthodox, the text must be perfect...

“For the orthodox, the text must be perfect, and therefore if errors exist, its perfect state
must be restorable. God’s providence is the causal nexus that ensures this end. But there remains a hint of anxiety in Turretin’s emphatic response to this problem:

‘Unless unimpaired integrity is attributed to Scripture, it cannot be regarded as the sole rule of faith and practice, and a wide door is opened to atheists, libertines, enthusiasts, and others of that sort of profane people to undermine its authority and overthrow the foundation of salvation. Since error cannot be part of the faith, how can a Scripture which is weakened by contradictions and corruptions be regarded as authentic and divine? Nor should it be said that these corruptions are only in matters of little significance, which do not affect the fundamentals of faith. For as soon as the authenticity of Scripture has been found wanting, even if it be in a single corruption [of the text] that cannot be corrected, how can our faith any longer be sustained? If corruption is conceded in matters of little importance, why not also in others of more significance?’

All error must be uprooted, else Scripture loses its ‘unimpaired integrity.’ Atheists and libertines are at the door, and not a single unremedied textual corruption can be conceded. Turretin’s orthodoxy requires an inerrant text. If it cannot be achieved, then chaos ensues. In this weighty formulation of Reformed orthodoxy, textual criticism carries a heavy load. It must be hedged by divine providence in order to reproduce a perfect text.”

Ron Hendel, The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe (In Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy Volume 1 (p. 538)

Read more: The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe https://www.academia.edu/29482523/The_Dream_of_a_Perfect_Text_Textual_Criticism_and_Biblical_Inerrancy_in_Early_Modern_Europe

There is no island of escape in time of plague

Image: Albert Camus (1913-1960)

At this point Father Paneloux evoked the august figure of Bishop Belzunce during the Marseille plague. He reminded his hearers how, toward the close of the epidemic, the Bishop, having done all that it behooved him, shut himself up in his palace, behind high walls, after laying in a stock of food and drink. With a sudden revulsion of feeling, such as often comes in times of extreme tribulation, the inhabitants of Marseille, who had idolized him hitherto, now turned against him, piled up corpses round his house in order to infect it, and even flung bodies over the walls to make sure of his death. Thus in a moment of weakness the Bishop had proposed to isolate himself from the outside world—and, lo and behold, corpses rained down on his head! This had a lesson for us all; we must convince ourselves that there is no island of escape in time of plague. No, there is no middle course. We must accept the dilemma and choose either to hate God or to love God. And who would dare to hate Him?

Albert Camus, The Plague