New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that the state is banning all gatherings with five hundred people or more. This is an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases in the state has grown to 328, 112 of which are new.
For venues and gatherings under five hundred people, capacity will be slashed by 50 percent. The order impacts Broadway theaters in Manhattan at 5 p.m. Thursday and everywhere else at 5 p.m. on Friday. It does not impact schools, hospitals, mass transit, or nursing homes.
At the same time, all non-medical visitors will be barred from nursing homes. The governor explained that his focus is on cutting the density of people to slow the COVID-19 outbreak in order to ensure that there are enough hospital beds to accommodate the most severely ill patients.
Why did God allow the Fall?
Christians understand that coronavirus is just one
consequence of the first human sin. When the first humans rebelled against God,
all of creation was affected (Genesis 3:17–19). As a result of the Fall,
“the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth
until now” (Romans 8:22).
So, we understand that our broken planet is not God’s fault
but ours. There would have been no coronavirus pandemic in the Garden of Eden.
But here’s the prior question: Why did God allow the Fall?
In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis asks about our
broken and rebellious planet, “Is this state of affairs in accordance with
God’s will or not? If it is, he is a strange God, you will say; and if it is
not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute
power?”
Lewis then answers his question: “But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, ‘I’m not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You’ve…
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