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many Americans are forced to “stay at home” and
wait indefinitely for this virus to run its course.
In Proverbs 16:27-29 the text reads, “Idle hands
are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece.
An evil man sows strife; gossip separates the best
of friends. Wickedness loves company—and leads
others into sin” (TLB). And that is exactly what idle
Americans are doing. In fact, Newsweek reported

that US alcohol sales increased by 55 percent in just
one week amid the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
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And US News reported that the coronavirus
pandemic has boosted marijuana sales while many
businesses that are forced to be closed are struggling.
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And when Americans are not out busy increasing
their consumption of alcohol and marijuana, many

have decided to invest their “free time,” to post their
pontifications about the coronavirus. In our digital
world, it literally became impossible to turn on any
media-serving device without being bombarded by
the panic-filled headlines.
Only after things got out of hand and panic
became the default setting of Americans everywhere
did Neil Ferguson update his predictions. Neil
adjusted his projections to predict that the

coronavirus will cause 20,000 United Kingdom
deaths, which means that Neil’s early predictions
were twenty-five times too high. Oops. Ferguson’s
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