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Put on our full armor

In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul tells us to put on the full armor of God before we battle sin and Satan. Likewise, we should put on the full armor of knowledge and wisdom, vigilance and human decency before the arrival of unseen malice and peril.

We knew the coronavirus was out there, but we could not see the siege of COVID-19 because the CDC abandoned its outpost in China. Sounding the alarm was delayed. We could not arm ourselves, bunker out or lock and load before the the virus breached our defenses. We ignored the old sage, to prepare and provide in the times of plenty for the time of want and need.

History reminds us: Spanish Flu - 1918, Asian Flu - 1956, MRSA -1961, H3N2 -1968, EBOLA -1976, HIV -1980, SARS -2002, CORONA - 2005, and COVID-19 - 2020. The collection of epidemics is increasing in frequency like biblical pestilence.

Our world has suddenly changed and it will not be the same. It is time to look at the enemy that we see in our mirror and reconsider our politics, economy, values and our existence.

Rich Magney

Spokane

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