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Pastoral Care Guidelines in event of pandemic
Topic Started: Tuesday, 28. April 2009, 22:09 (234 Views)
SeanJ
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Have you thought if the flu hits Britain and Ireland, then we should quarantine ourselves in order to avoid catching it.

That means no shopping when the shops are busy, no cinema, concerts, or theatre, and NO MASS.

Sean
Edited by SeanJ, Tuesday, 28. April 2009, 22:09.
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Derekap
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SeanJ wrote:

"That means no shopping when the shops are busy, no cinema, concerts, or theatre, and NO MASS"

We shall all go when the shops are not normally busy and they will be busier than ever. As regards Holy Mass - I suppose one could comment: "O ye of little Faith!" I pray and hope we shall not suffer such dilemmas.
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Rose of York
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SeanJ
Tuesday, 28. April 2009, 22:09
Have you thought if the flu hits Britain and Ireland, then we should quarantine ourselves in order to avoid catching it.

That means no shopping when the shops are busy, no cinema, concerts, or theatre, and NO MASS.

Sean
Sean you are a doctor of medicine. Are the media exagerating, or is there real cause for concern?
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Rose of York
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SeanJ
Tuesday, 28. April 2009, 22:09
Have you thought if the flu hits Britain and Ireland, then we should quarantine ourselves in order to avoid catching it.

That means no shopping when the shops are busy, no cinema, concerts, or theatre, and NO MASS.

Sean
I am married to someone highly susceptible to infection. If there was an epidemic of any kind it would be my duty to stay away from crowded places where people cannot avoid being close together, so I would view a Mass on EWTN.
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Rose of York
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http://lancasterdiocese.org.uk/admin/Uploads/media/35/Influenza.pdf

The Diocese of Lancaster has produced a document

Sustaining Pastoral Presence
Influenza Outbreaks

Written with the mandate of
Rt Revd Patrick O'Donohue
Bishop of Lancaster


The document is written by Jim McManus and Reverend Ncik Donnelly.

Jim McManus is Joint Director of Public Health, Birmingham CIty Council and Birmingham PCTs and an advisor on public health care issues to the Bishops Conference of England and Wales

Reverend Nick Donnelly is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Lancaster and author of Pastoral Planning for a Flu Pandemic commissioned by Bishop Patrick O'Donohue (2006). It was recommended by the UK Government booklet, Flu Pandemic and Faith Communities (2008)

http://lancasterdiocese.org.uk/admin/Uploads/media/35/Influenza.pdf
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Deacon Robert
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The paper is very well done. I am seeking permission to forward it to the proper people in my Diocese.
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne

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Derekap
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Did you read that some Jews in Israeli want their Government to state that it should be called Mexican Flu because Pork is forbidden to Jews (and Muslims)? The Government has so far refused. I would have thought it was well named to them.
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OsullivanB

So they're allowed to catch it so long as it's kosher?
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Derekap
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I think we may have some interesting experiences in church in the near future.

(Digressing. In the Winter of early 1940 I remember a flu epidemic during which many of the children and teachers were absent. Classes had to be amalgamated and we even had a young woman teacher from the equivalent girls' school to our boys' school! Our sixth-formers showed a lively interest. Perhaps because of then censorship this particular epidemic is rarely, if ever, referred to. I can't remember any practical reaction in the Church. It was an extremely severe Winter).
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draig
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You couldnt think of a 'rasher' move that the Israeli Government could make. If it is declared Kosher then they'll all be catching it, but if they maintain the unclean status of the virus then the whole country will stay healthy. :wacko:
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OSB, just for the record and to save my own face, it is possible to have a pandemic which is not life threatening , merely widespread.

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I think there is a move across nations for this to be renamed so that people do not think that they catch it only from pigs or that they stop eating meat from pigs.

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OsullivanB

Indeed it is. But I doubt we'd call it a pandemic then (though it be one). Indeed I doubt we'd talk about it at all. We wouldn't get daily updates from the WHO about a worldwide increase in dandruff (to use a very poor analogy, but one which tickled me).
Edited by OsullivanB, Friday, 1. May 2009, 23:02.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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OSB is correct, you can technically get a pandemic which is not life threatening - pandemic just means many (all) people.

For normal medical usage of the term pandemic three conditions have to be met:

1 A new organism subtype (or a new organism) is encountered
2 The new organism infects humans causing serious illness;
3 The new organism spreads easily and sustainably among humans

Your question is thus can you have an infection causing serious illness which is not life threatening?

I would say yes - if we suddenly encountered a new virus that caused painful ulceration of human eyes and was highly contagious then that wouldn't be life threatening, but it could be called a pandemic.



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Bob Crowley

It all sounds like a bit of a boar to me.
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