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HEALTH
Pick Up Your Mat And Go
Our current vaccination system seems like a very 1st-Century solution to a 21st-Century problem.
I logged into the AtlantiCare site today on a whim and it said there was a vaccination appointment available and by the time I clicked on it, it was gone, like a fart in the wind.
I keep seeing stories about various groups, churches, and certain tech-savvy individuals who are volunteering to help those in need, get appointments to be vaccinated. The presumption being that this is not an easy endeavor, but rather one that demands a team of people or at least a lucky roll of the die for any hope of being saved from the ravages of a deadly pandemic.
There is a story in the Bible, told in the book of John, about a pool near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, where an angel of the Lord would come and “disturb the waters” and the first person to reach the pool would get healed. It was called Bethesda, but not the one in Maryland, and the sick congregated there in the hopes of being healed.
“In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was…
