AMERICAN CHRISTIAN #61
“Fear Factor”
Many fear factors surround our nation; many factors that create a fear response surround every nation in the world. Problems at borders, pandemics, endemics, election fraud, the loss of job and family, vaccination mandates and closed schools are culminating our fears. What about the pending economic collapse seen around the world? As Christians, one thing remains true: Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. Jesus told us that the hearts of men would fail from the expectation of these things which are coming on the earth for the powers of the heaven will be shaken, (Lk 21:26). We have a promise from Jesus: He said, “I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down (or relax) My hold on you! Take comfort and confidently say boldly, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm or filled with dread or be terrified, what can man do to me?” (Heb 13:5-6 (paraphrased)). We have these promises from our Lord, let’s keep our God given birthright into His Kingdom by the blood of Jesus and keep the Kingdom of God on display for all the world to see! We’ll need grace to do…
From EP 59: A newly released study (2021) reports that 28% of 500,000 persons who died from co-morbidity related COVID-19 illness included “fear and anxiety.” Co-morbidity, is other illnesses that contribute a person’s death. Fear and anxiety is listed as #2 co-morbid illness. From the CDC website, “Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021.”
Among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults in PHD-SR, 540,667 (11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at least 1 underlying medical condition. Essential hypertension (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%) were the most common. The strongest risk factors for death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI, 1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions, with aRRs of death ranging from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.41–1.67) for patients with 1 condition to 3.82 (95% CI, 3.45–4.23) for patients with more than 10 conditions (compared with patients with no conditions).
Ref: https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm
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