Deadly tornadoes in the South caused “catastrophic” damage and at least seven deaths after touching down Sunday, according to officials. Hundreds of structures have been damaged by the storms.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency over the storms. “This is not how anyone wants to celebrate Easter Sunday,” he said in a statement. But the good news is that “the state and our first responders are working around the clock and will not rest until this is over.”
In other news, Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer statue was illuminated to look like a doctor on Easter Sunday, a tribute to frontline healthcare workers battling the coronavirus pandemic around the world. The flags of several countries affected by the outbreak were also projected onto the monument, and the city’s archbishop performed a mass at the base of the statue in which he paid tribute to medical workers.
The horrific overnight storms in the South remind us that a pandemic does not displace other tragedies. People still have heart attacks and strokes. They still suffer from cancer and diabetes. One reason “flattening the curve” is so essential is that, otherwise, COVID-19 patients could fill up hospitals to the exclusion of those who need medical care for other reasons.
But the responses in the South and the tribute in Brazil
also remind us that we owe a perpetual debt to those who risk their lives every
day for us.
Paying forward the sacrifice of those who risk their lives for us
According to reports, thousands of healthcare workers in the US have contracted coronavirus from patients and dozens have died. First responders after storms risk their lives by going into damaged structures looking for survivors.
Every year we are reminded by Good Friday and Easter Sunday
that our salvation was…
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