Two years into COVID-19, treatment and healthcare are still wildly varied. From country to country, state to state and county to county, what is permissible, what is available, what is an authorized treatment follows no consistent pattern or set of rules. People are being denied treatment based on their vaccination status. Many times, even when treatment is given, it is ineffective or dangerous. Remdesivir was pulled from an EBOLA research trial because of its negative effect on the kidneys. Ebola is less dangerous than remdisivir per the trial, but you can go get it to treat COVID at almost any hospital because that is what the CDC/FDA recommend.

Even outside of COVID protocols, policy practice would raise an eyebrow of the sane. My daughter sees a specialist at a hospital regularly. The options for the online portal for sex are: Male, Female and unknown. Seriously? Unknown? A hospital is going to prescribe drugs that might have different results for males and females, but leave the option open to speculation? Men do not need mammograms. Women do not need prostate checks. Yet many medical institutions are willing to ponder the matter. This is insanity.

In the year 369, St. Basil of Caesarea established the first public hospital.¹ Public healthcare spread as Christians built hospitals throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. It was Christians who built and renovated much of modern medicine by treating people who were cast out and downtrodden. While far from perfect, the historical church left its mark by healing the sick.

If the Church is to leave its mark today as it did centuries ago, it needs to return to its roots of healing the sick. A great place to start would be to start influencing COVID protocols. If you live in a red state, the Church needs to push those legislatures to mimic protocols of places like Uttar Predesh, India. Uttar Predesh has a COVID vaccination rate of 5.8 percent, but does not have rampant COVID deaths or hospitalizations despite the nation of India being overwhelmed in the summer of 2021.

There are study verified treatments that do work to treat COVID. The insistence by people like Fauci, that randomized placebo trials are needed in order to verify workable treatments is bull. Provisions under the 2016 CURES Act recognized that mass meta-data observational studies that have overwhelming positive outcomes have similar authority as a randomized placebo trial! That means that when hundreds of doctors testify to giving thousands of patients in various stages of COVID a drug regiment that produces cured patients in most cases, that data is as valid as a randomized placebo test.

It is easy to find places that have found solutions to COVID. The Church ought to start by pushing state legislatures to pass amendments to state constitutions and laws that prohibit the government from mandating any sort of medicine or injection absent of consent of a person. The Church cannot stop there. It ought to push legislatures to pass its own laws that establish regulatory bodies of disease and medicine that will directly undermine the authority of the FDA, CDC, and HHS. That way, if a drug or treatment works, a state can decide to make it available if they want to. And really, such a governing body should delegate to practicing doctors who are treating patients and seeing results.

The church ought to fund medical research. Yes, research is expensive. However, the large amount of federal dollars currently funding “research” is putting out garbage results that do not reflect real world applications. Prior to 2019, there were zero institutions using facial masks (Cloth, Hospital, or N95), to curb the spread of viruses. Did masks suddenly change? No. Did the data on masks change in 2019? No. Yet today, you can find plenty of material trying to hold up masks as a pathetic excuse for protection. Yes, The FDA, CDC, WHO and others said masks work. So why didn’t they work? COVID still spread. The church can purify data by putting money behind people that are interested in seeking the truth and finding what works.

The Church ought to invest in the production of life saving medicines. Remedies such as Hydroxychloroquine are no longer under patent and can be made at a relatively low cost. The church needs to make safe places to produce and distribute remedies for covid. Make solutions easy to access by pushing legislatures to ease production and distribution limitations. In places where no such relief can be obtained, the church ought to bring it in as if smuggling Bibles into North Korea.

In Mathew 10:8, Jesus told his disciples to go out and, “Heal the sick and raise the dead…” The church can end the pandemic. Why do we need to sit on our hands and wait? For too long the church has retreated from its duty, its calling to be good Samaritans. After the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus said, “Go and do likewise.” What an opportunity to bring the Gospel into a fearful, hurting world by offering healing and hope. So let us waste not and make haste to effect change in our country, our state, and our communities.

“Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭1:15-21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

1. John Dickson, Bullies and Saints (Grand Rapids, Zondervan), 109.