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How we failed to quarantine correctly for COVID-19

 It is my belief that for some reason, epidemiologists don't understand basic military strategy nor ecology, which is why for the past year we've been subject to frankly insane recommendations from "The Experts". Given the numbers we were seeing with COVID-19, and the pattern of spread,  I would have separated and done two different lockdowns by population density. 1. Rural populations of under 20 people per square mile:  1000 square mile sections, chosen for essential services such as clinics, hospitals, zip code postal offices, grocery stores and restaurants.  NO closures, but no travel outside of your 1000 square mile cohort either. 2.  Urban populations over 20 people per spare mile- segregated by neighborhood, where a neighborhood contains at least one each of a grocery store, a hospital, a restaurant, a post office, and a grocery store.  No travel outside of your neighborhood. Shipments between each of these should be handled *only* by semi truck, wit...

Why Catholics need to pay attention to providing revenge as a part of justice

 I'm very much a St. John Paul The Great Catholic.  As such, I share the modernist point of view that the death penalty is barbaric, outdated, and for the most part, either too lenient or too bloody to fit the crimes it is called for.  We have good drugs now to keep the inmates quiet and harmless.  Death of personality- a conversion away from sin guided by counsel and drugs to maintain mood- is sufficient to protect the innocent. Having said that, we have four sins that cry out to Heaven for Vengeance, and to fulfill all justice, victims of these four sins MUST BE AVENGED.  So here are the four sins, and my personal recommendation for revenge given the current constitution of the United States is in Italics. 1) Murder This is based off what God said to Cain after he murdered his brother Abel: “The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4.10) (This includes abortion) The murderer- even if the origin...