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7 new COVID-19 cases in VI as recoveries rise
The Virgin Islands (VI) now has 17 active cases of COVID-19, with seven of those cases new since the last update of January 20, 2021. Photo: VINO/File
According to the latest epidemiological report released on Friday, January 22, 2021, data shows 12 active cases are on Tortola, 4 on Virgin Gorda and 1 one a vessel. Photo: GIS
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands (VI) now has 17 active cases of COVID-19, with seven of those cases new since the last update of January 20, 2021.
This is according to the latest epidemiological report released on Friday, January 22, 2021, with the data showing 12 active cases are on Tortola, 4 on Virgin Gorda and 1 one a vessel.
Meanwhile, recoveries are on the rise with 10 persons having recovered out of the last batch of 20 confirmed infections.
To date, 18,260 samples have been taken from 18,245 persons tested at the Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital.
All active cases and their close contacts are quarantine, the VI Government assured.
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Yoga is another thing they’re trying to get in our schools ...STOP IT
Laurette’s Story: Sucked into Yoga and the New Age
Laurette first got involved in yoga as a little girl. Her mother used to give free yoga classes to the college students, and Laurette was the demonstration model. Laurette loved being the center of attention, so yoga was fun. In addition, the exercises really relaxed her mother.
But Laurette warns that yoga’s ability to bring a sense of calm is one of its deceptive charms: “That’s one thing people look at, too,” said Laurette. “They say, ‘My doctor, my chiropractor, my physical therapist says to do it. It helps me. I feel less stressful.’ Well, it wouldn’t be a hook if it didn’t have something good in it.”
“We didn’t know about living the victorious Christian life,” she explained. “We were not aware of the deception that is inherent within yoga and its connections to Hinduism. It seemed so spiritual, so it was fulfilling a void that was in our lives. I have found that any part of our lives that is not submitted to the lordship of Jesus Christ is an open door for the enemy… As I look back, that was the open door to the New Age for us. We began getting into Edgar Cayce, Ouija boards, crystals, and all kinds of things.”
“These are postures that are offered to the 330 million Hindu gods. Yoga postures really are; they are offerings to the gods. If you do these postures and you do this breathing technique and this meditation, then you will be accepted by a god, little “G.” That’s the real danger,” she said.
Laurette told me that one of her PraiseMoves certified personal trainers visited India for three months on a mission trip, and she would often see people in the streets doing yoga poses in front of the statues of the gods.
“Romans 12:1-2 says we are to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice to God,” added Laurette. “Here they are doing something very similar with these postures to their 330 million gods, and it is scary. So we abstain from things offered to idols — Acts 15:29.”
In yoga they do what they call pranayama breathing. Prana is the Hindu word for life force, the same concept as the word chi in some martial arts. Yoga breathing attempts to manipulate that life energy, which Laurette believes is perilous. “That is a dangerous thing,” she said, “because I think that we are coming out from under the blood of Jesus when we do stuff like that, and we are no match for the enemy in those areas. I think of what Paul said in Ephesians 2:2, that Satan is the prince of the power of the air. We are not talking about oxygen.”
A third area of concern in yoga is the concept of emptying the mind, which is contradictory to what Christianity teaches. As Laurette explained, “We are transformed by the renewing of our minds, not the emptying.”
Along with emptying the mind, yoga guides people into astral travel, which is where people actually leave their bodies, a practice that Laurette was familiar with and has since questioned. “I wonder with those experiences when I left my body what got in there when I was gone?” Laurette posed.
Clearly, with this understanding of yoga, Christians should think twice before heading to the local gym for a yoga class.
You got people leading the church worshipping Greek sorority/fraternity/secret society gods and still in the other side of their mouth preaching God.
The BVI has lost its Christian values being led by influencers and their popularity who do not follow the laws of God.
First of all we should express thanks to God for keeping us safe and healthy from the COVID-19 and to this government for doing exceedingly well to contain the virus. Perhaps other countries in the Caribbean and even further afield could use the Virgin Islands as a case study and adopt some of their strategies and save the lives of many persons. In the USA, the former president for instance did not see the use of face mask as a preventative measure to protect the people from the virus. With a change of government, wearing of masks has resulted in the reduction of the daily number of cases. Some of us are doubting the seriousness of the virus as a myth. However when ever the vaccines become available I hope to be among the first to take it. Though I was tested and was found to be negative I will continue to wear my mask until the vaccines become available.