03-13-2020, 08:51 AM
Oklahoma is now officially in a panic state, in the sense that people are buying up all kinds of supplies without a clear idea why. Yesterday something clicked and the population of the state went nuts. All the school districts in the state were forced to cancel classes for today (Friday) because parents were pulling their kids anyway. Of course, next week is Spring Break, but it still puts a kink in official scheduling of things, along with budgets and movement of supplies, etc.
But with that kind of panic came the panic buying of whatever folks imagine will be hard to get sometime soon. Most of it is fuzzy thinking about a likely quarantine. The population as a whole has very little idea what kind of planning and decisions are part of government mandated quarantines. It made it tough shopping yesterday for stuff we buy regularly. We had to take into account the madness and how it affects our future shopping trips.
We could easily make this a prayer request for the nation, or even the world. Feel free to pursue that as you feel led, but my focus here is our covenant family. I'm going to post something on my Radix Fidem blog about this, but I also wanted to place it formally here on the forum. The disease will run its course according to the Lord's wisdom and will, but the wider human response is the real problem. This is part of the near-apocalypse the Spirit warned me about over the past few years. The shape of it comes as a surprise to me, but not the fact itself.
Be sure to pray for each other in this chaos. It may be useful to share our experiences here in this thread.
But with that kind of panic came the panic buying of whatever folks imagine will be hard to get sometime soon. Most of it is fuzzy thinking about a likely quarantine. The population as a whole has very little idea what kind of planning and decisions are part of government mandated quarantines. It made it tough shopping yesterday for stuff we buy regularly. We had to take into account the madness and how it affects our future shopping trips.
We could easily make this a prayer request for the nation, or even the world. Feel free to pursue that as you feel led, but my focus here is our covenant family. I'm going to post something on my Radix Fidem blog about this, but I also wanted to place it formally here on the forum. The disease will run its course according to the Lord's wisdom and will, but the wider human response is the real problem. This is part of the near-apocalypse the Spirit warned me about over the past few years. The shape of it comes as a surprise to me, but not the fact itself.
Be sure to pray for each other in this chaos. It may be useful to share our experiences here in this thread.