I have recently been made aware of a column April 30 in the Daily Reporter by Donna Steele titled “A COVID-19 tale of 2 sisters.” I am Brenda Kelleher, the other sister. I am writing to clarify the record per our private conversation concerning the events surrounding COVID-19 and the spirit of fear that has gripped the nation.
Our warm-hearted discussion and concerns about current events led my sister to request the information I had been reading concerning the main topic of our discussion, Event 201, an event that was an actual simulation and exercise in New York City of a coronavirus worldwide pandemic. I directed her to activistpost.com, where I learned that Johns Hopkins, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and major players in the media, pharmaceutical and banking industries took part in this simulation. These groups covered infrastructure, telecommunications and how to control the media narrative, including censorship. I found this to be troubling especially since Event 201 occurred on October 18, 2019, the same day the Military Olympics were taking place in Wuhan, China, with 10,000 participants from 110 nations. All of this was happening six weeks before the world was hearing about the coronavirus. I am not sure if Donna ever looked up this information, since it was not mentioned in her column.
She did cite a Federal Reserve article she pulled from activistpost.com that I had not read nor discussed with her. Neither do I recall discussing the three branches of government and “plots to keep Christians from worshiping” that her column mentioned. I did express my anger about China’s involvement, the economic fallout, the government overreach, the quarantine being forced on healthy American citizens, and the “Hunger Games” society we could evolve into.
I sent Donna other in-depth sources I follow such as American Thinker, American Thought Leaders, Health Impact News, etc. , that give information about our present crisis. I don’t know if she read them. These are not the “fonts from which my fear flows” but well-written articles that cause me to think with a sound mind and not fearful emotions about the events surrounding this virus. I do not gorge on mainstream media outlets that seek to tell me what to think and feel through imagery and repetitive propaganda. That is dangerous and feeds a herd mentality.
Speaking of herds, to look at parts of the “proverbial elephant” through narrow fence holes at a time like this is risky. It seems safer to look at the entire beast to discern the situation and react accordingly. Yes, the water is boiling and the frog is sitting in the pan with his eyes bulging and paralyzed by fear while globalists and profiteers are turning up the heat. My sister and I have different worldviews, and those views have consequences.
This is an ongoing “tale of two sisters,” but it is not about right and left, because in the end that is still horizontal thinking that comes from vain, corruptible, finite humans, like me. I prefer to think vertically where the horizontal meets the vertical: at the cross of Christ. Whether pandemics, falling towers or evil tyrants kill people, these are consequences of a fallen world, and death looms for all of us. But every crisis bears God’s call to repent and put our trust in Jesus, who invites us to become citizens of an eternal kingdom. Please, think about that.
Brenda Kelleher lives in Oneonta, Alabama. She is a wife, mother and homemaker who enjoys gardening and cooking.
