
English: 
Hey YouTube, what's going on?
We're continuing on this
coronavirus lockdown,
and this week I wanna spend some time
and talk about why we need to choose life
and we need to choose Jesus right now.
So stick around, and I'll tell you more.
(upbeat music)
Hey YouTube, what's going on?
I'm Chad from Directional Faith.
I wanna continue talking
about the coronavirus lockdown
and what we can do to choose
life in the middle of all this.
Now, normally my focus is
on faith, spirituality,
and growing closer to Christ,
and we're going to talk
about that in a little bit.
But first I wanna talk about
the reality of the situation
that we have right in front of us.
So we've spent a lot of
time obviously talking about
the impact that it's had
on a lot of loved ones,
on a lot of families, but you know,
how much has it impacted you?
If it's impacted you, stop, take a moment,
and put it in the comments,
add a prayer request,
whatever it might be.

English: 
Hey YouTube, what's going on?
We're continuing on this
coronavirus lockdown,
and this week I want to spend some time
and talk about why we need to choose life
and we need to choose Jesus right now.
So stick around, and I'll tell you more.
(upbeat music)
Hey YouTube, what's going on?
I'm Chad from Directional Faith.
I want to continue talking
about the coronavirus lockdown
and what we can do to choose
life in the middle of all this.
Now, normally my focus is
on faith, spirituality,
and growing closer to Christ,
and we're going to talk
about that in a little bit.
But first I want to talk about
the reality of the situation
that we have right in front of us.
So we've spent a lot of
time obviously talking about
the impact that it's had
on a lot of loved ones,
on a lot of families, but you know,
how much has it impacted you?
If it's impacted you, stop, take a moment,
and put it in the comments,
add a prayer request,
whatever it might be.

English: 
Before we go any further,
make sure you subscribe.
It really helps me grow the channel
and get noticed by YouTube,
so that I can continue
to spread the gospel across the internet.
All right, so maybe
you're one of the people
that hasn't been affected yet.
But right now with the
statistics the way they are,
about one in 800 families in
the U.S. has been impacted
by the coronavirus with
somebody that's actually
become sick with it.
Now, that means that you
may not know anybody,
or maybe you know somebody
who knows somebody,
but you haven't been
directly impacted yet.
But the numbers are real, and
right now the way it looks,
we've actually had over 600,000 cases
in the U.S. and well over 25,000 deaths.
Now, if you do the math on
it, that's over 4% of people
have actually died from coronavirus.
You know, they were initially saying
that it might be one or 2%.
It's over 4%, and it's over 6% worldwide,
of those that have tested positive.
That's got to make us stop and think
that if 4% of people, that's
one in every 25 people,
were sick, so that's a
really alarming statistic,

English: 
Before we go any further,
make sure you subscribe.
It really helps me grow the channel
and get noticed by YouTube,
so that I can continue
to spread the gospel across the internet.
All right, so maybe
you're one of the people
that hasn't been affected yet.
But right now with the
statistics the way they are,
about one in 800 families in
the U.S. has been impacted
by the coronavirus with
somebody that's actually
become sick with it.
Now, that means that you
may not know anybody,
or maybe you know somebody
who knows somebody,
but you haven't been
directly impacted yet.
But the numbers are real, and
right now the way it looks,
we've actually had over 600,000 cases
in the U.S. and well over 25,000 deaths.
Now, if you do the math on
it, that's over 4% of people
have actually died from coronavirus.
You know, they were initially saying
that it might be one or 2%.
It's over 4%, and it's over 6% worldwide,
of those that have tested positive.
That's got to make us stop and think
that if 4% of people, that's
one in every 25 people,
were sick, so that's a
really alarming statistic,

English: 
'cause 4% when you really break
it down, and the math of it,
is that if you knew 25
people that caught the virus,
one of them would die.
If you knew 100 people, four
of them would die obviously.
So think of your Facebook
account or your Instagram,
or whatever social media you use.
Pick out 100 people, 250
people, however many you have
on there, and randomly pick 4% of them,
one for every 25, to pass away.
How would that impact you as a person?
So we can't do anything
that's gonna cause this virus
to go crazy and it continue
to spread and go farther
than it already has.
For the past few weeks
we've been practicing
social distancing and it
seems like it's working.
The flattening the curve is happening,
but now we're starting to
hear from politicians that
they wanna let us go and
they want us to go back
out into the world again,
and that just sounds ludicrous to me.
How can we even imagine
going back out into the world
right now knowing that this
virus hasn't been eradicated?
There's no vaccine.
We don't have an effective treatment yet.
There's no cure for this.

English: 
'cause 4% when you really break
it down, and the math of it,
is that if you knew 25
people that caught the virus,
one of them would die.
If you knew 100 people, four
of them would die obviously.
So think of your Facebook
account or your Instagram,
or whatever social media you use.
Pick out 100 people, 250
people, however many you have
on there, and randomly pick 4% of them,
one for every 25, to pass away.
How would that impact you as a person?
So we can't do anything that's
going to cause this virus
to go crazy and it continue
to spread and go farther
than it already has.
For the past few weeks
we've been practicing
social distancing and it
seems like it's working.
The flattening the curve is happening,
but now we're starting to
hear from politicians that
they want to let us go and
they want us to go back
out into the world again,
and that just sounds ludicrous to me.
How can we even imagine
going back out into the world
right now knowing that this
virus hasn't been eradicated?
There's no vaccine.
We don't have an effective treatment yet.
There's no cure for this.

English: 
So for us to go back out
in the world means that
that curve is no longer flat.
That's gonna spike again.
That may not seem that alarming to you,
but let's look back, 'cause
back on March 1st there were
only 30 cases in the United States,
and here we are, it's the middle of April,
and there's over 600,000 cases.
So in a month and a half it multiplied
from 30 up to 600,000.
So this is a serious issue
that we need to take care of.
So based on these numbers,
this is where I think our faith comes in,
that at times like this this
is where we need to choose life
and we need to choose Jesus,
that when we're looking at things
and we realize that
going out into the public
and going back to work and
doing all this kind of stuff
it's only gonna put a
lot of lives at risk.
Now, I know there's
some that are out there
that are still clamoring
to go back to church
and start taking the Eucharist
and doing all of that.
In fact, some really popular Catholic
and Christian YouTubers have actually
been pushing for that idea.
One Catholic YouTuber that
I normally enjoy his work,

English: 
So for us to go back out
in the world means that
that curve is no longer flat.
That's going to spike again.
That may not seem that alarming to you,
but let's look back, 'cause
back on March 1st there were
only 30 cases in the United States,
and here we are, it's the middle of April,
and there's over 600,000 cases.
So in a month and a half it multiplied
from 30 up to 600,000.
So this is a serious issue
that we need to take care of.
So based on these numbers,
this is where I think our faith comes in,
that at times like this this
is where we need to choose life
and we need to choose Jesus,
that when we're looking at things
and we realize that
going out into the public
and going back to work and
doing all this kind of stuff
it's only going to put
a lot of lives at risk.
Now, I know there's
some that are out there
that are still clamoring
to go back to church
and start taking the Eucharist
and doing all of that.
In fact, some really popular Catholic
and Christian YouTubers have actually
been pushing for that idea.
One Catholic YouTuber that
I normally enjoy his work,

English: 
because we have a lot in
common as far as a love
for Christian spirituality
and Ignatian spirituality,
he's a little more traditional than I am,
and he was going on and he
was telling people that,
you know, we need to go
out and take the Eucharist,
and the only way to take
it was on the tongue,
and doing all the stuff.
Less than two weeks later
after he posted that message,
he came down with coronavirus.
He was in the hospital for a few weeks,
and was on a ventilator.
And I hope that we
learn from these lessons
that it's great for us to have that faith
and for us to want the Eucharist
and for us to want to attend
church and go to Mass,
but us putting other
people's lives in danger
is not the answer to that.
That's not choosing life.
Right, we talk about being
pro-life all year round
and focusing on the unborn children,
but there's people right
now that need our help,
and the way that we can help
them is by staying home,
not by going out, not by
going to choir practice,
and watch an entire group get sick,

English: 
because we have a lot in
common as far as a love
for Christian spirituality
and Ignatian spirituality,
he's a little more traditional than I am,
and he was going on and he
was telling people that,
you know, we need to go
out and take the Eucharist,
and the only way to take
it was on the tongue,
and doing all the stuff.
Less than two weeks later
after he posted that message,
he came down with coronavirus.
He was in the hospital for a few weeks,
and was on a ventilator.
And I hope that we
learn from these lessons
that it's great for us to have that faith
and for us to want the Eucharist
and for us to wanna attend
church and go to Mass,
but us putting other
people's lives in danger
is not the answer to that.
That's not choosing life.
Right, we talk about being
pro-life all year round
and focusing on the unborn children,
but there's people right
now that need our help,
and the way that we can help
them is by staying home,
not by going out, not by
going to choir practice,
and watch an entire group get sick,

English: 
not by going to mass and
spreading it to everybody there,
not by taking the Eucharist on the tongue.
That's not choosing life.
I don't care what you think,
that's not what Christ would want from us.
I know there's a lot of
people that wanna go to church
right now because they
say, "I'm not afraid,
"my faith is gonna cover
me," and that's great,
but even God in Leviticus
13 told Moses and Aaron
to quarantine the people when
people started getting sick.
So quarantining isn't
something that's new.
It's actually something that's biblical,
old-school biblical, not
even, you know, New Testament.
We're talking Old Testament
that God was telling Moses
and Aaron to quarantine to
prevent people from getting sick.
So at a time like this
how do we choose life?
How do we choose Jesus?
How do we act the way that
Jesus would want us to?
Well, he'd want us to focus on those
that really need our help,
everybody that needs our help.
So when I think about the nursing homes
and the people that
are getting sick there,
I've heard numerous
stories of nursing homes
where one person got
sick, and within a week,

English: 
not by going to mass and
spreading it to everybody there,
not by taking the Eucharist on the tongue.
That's not choosing life.
I don't care what you think,
that's not what Christ would want from us.
I know there's a lot of people
that want to go to church
right now because they
say, "I'm not afraid,
"my faith is going to cover
me," and that's great,
but even God in Leviticus
13 told Moses and Aaron
to quarantine the people when
people started getting sick.
So quarantining isn't
something that's new.
It's actually something that's biblical,
old-school biblical, not
even, you know, New Testament.
We're talking Old Testament
that God was telling Moses
and Aaron to quarantine to
prevent people from getting sick.
So at a time like this
how do we choose life?
How do we choose Jesus?
How do we act the way that
Jesus would want us to?
Well, he'd want us to focus on those
that really need our help,
everybody that needs our help.
So when I think about the nursing homes
and the people that
are getting sick there,
I've heard numerous
stories of nursing homes
where one person got
sick, and within a week,

English: 
70, 80, 100 people are sick,
and of course obviously at their age
that's a big risk factor for them.
Another group that's in a lot of peril
is obviously the homeless, that
the people that are homeless
don't have the same access to healthcare,
they don't have the same access
to being able to stay clean,
and avoid this, they go
to homeless shelters,
where all this spreads rapidly.
I just heard another story
about a homeless shelter
out on the West Coast that over 70 people
were diagnosed just from one shelter.
Another place that's
really desperate for action
is our prison systems.
We talk so much about
wanting to be pro-life,
but then we wanna exclude
them because of the mistakes
they've made and the sins
that they've committed.
But there are so many of
them that are sick right now,
that outbreaks are happening
in jails across the country.
So choosing life in choosing Jesus
in the middle of the
coronavirus epidemic means that
we need to stay home and that
we need to do what we can
to not spread the virus.
If in a few weeks the orange
man in the Oval Office decides
that we should all go out and be free

English: 
70, 80, 100 people are sick,
and of course obviously at their age
that's a big risk factor for them.
Another group that's in a lot of peril
is obviously the homeless, that
the people that are homeless
don't have the same access to healthcare,
they don't have the same access
to being able to stay clean,
and avoid this, they go
to homeless shelters,
where all this spreads rapidly.
I just heard another story
about a homeless shelter
out on the West Coast that over 70 people
were diagnosed just from one shelter.
Another place that's
really desperate for action
is our prison systems.
We talk so much about
wanting to be pro-life,
but then we want to exclude
them because of the mistakes
they've made and the sins
that they've committed.
But there are so many of
them that are sick right now,
that outbreaks are happening
in jails across the country.
So choosing life and choosing Jesus
in the middle of the
coronavirus epidemic means that
we need to stay home and that
we need to do what we can
to not spread the virus.
If in a few weeks the that
man in the Oval Office decides
that we should all go out and be free

English: 
and be able to go do our thing, don't.
Be smart, stay home, only
go out when you need to.
You need to go get groceries, get it.
If you need to go get food, go do it.
But there's no reason for us to be
out there in public needlessly.
If you wanna go for a walk
in the park, be my guest.
I'm here at a park right now.
There's nobody around.
Do things to get yourself outside,
enjoy your time with your family,
focus on what's really
important right now.
That's how we choose life.
We are in a very unique time right now
where we can actually take a
step back from all the stuff
that normally drags us down,
the the craziness of the world,
the busyness, and actually
step out from that,
take some time with our family,
take some time to catch up on the reading
and the projects that
we've been wanting to do,
and do things that are
gonna better our lives,
and realize that we don't
need all this stuff,
and we all need all the
things that normally
keep us away from God, frankly.
Now, I understand that
we can't go to church,
but that doesn't mean that
your relationship with Him
can't grow right now.
So I'm hoping that in this time

English: 
and be able to go do our thing, don't.
Be smart, stay home, only
go out when you need to.
You need to go get groceries, get it.
If you need to go get food, go do it.
But there's no reason for us to be
out there in public needlessly.
If you want to go for a walk
in the park, be my guest.
I'm here at a park right now.
There's nobody around.
Do things to get yourself outside,
enjoy your time with your family,
focus on what's really
important right now.
That's how we choose life.
We are in a very unique time right now
where we can actually take a
step back from all the stuff
that normally drags us down,
the craziness of the world,
the busyness, and actually
step out from that,
take some time with our family,
take some time to catch up on the reading
and the projects that
we've been wanting to do,
and do things that are
going to better our lives,
and realize that we don't
need all this stuff,
and we don't need all
the things that normally
keep us away from God, frankly.
Now, I understand that
we can't go to church,
but that doesn't mean that
your relationship with Him
can't grow right now.
So I'm hoping that in this time

English: 
that you're able to find ways to do that.
Spend some time in prayer.
Spend some time reading the Bible.
When was the last time you did that?
So many people have Bibles at home
that are just collecting dust, right?
Pick up a good book.
I know an Amazon some of these
books that have lead times
of two, three, four weeks for delivery,
but go onto other sites.
There's plenty of other sites
that are shipping books that
that's their main focus,
instead of, you know,
trying to get it from
Amazon where they're busy
making sure we have all the
necessary goods that we need,
go to somewhere else.
Don't wait on just Amazon.
Realize that there's so many
other places to buy books,
or get an e-book.
You'll have it immediately.
And hey, don't forget,
"Waking Up Catholic"
is available on e-book, too.
All right, so down in the comments,
I wanna start a prayer chain.
If there's somebody that you
know that's been impacted
by coronavirus, please put a
prayer down there for them.
Please continue to pray for
those that need our help,
those in the nursing homes,
people that are homeless,
people that are living
in the jails right now,
people that really need our prayers
to get through this difficult time.

English: 
that you're able to find ways to do that.
Spend some time in prayer.
Spend some time reading the Bible.
When was the last time you did that?
So many people have Bibles at home
that are just collecting dust, right?
Pick up a good book.
I know an Amazon some of these
books that have lead times
of two, three, four weeks for delivery,
but go onto other sites.
There's plenty of other sites
that are shipping books that
that's their main focus,
instead of, you know,
trying to get it from
Amazon where they're busy
making sure we have all the
necessary goods that we need,
go to somewhere else.
Don't wait on just Amazon.
Realize that there's so many
other places to buy books,
or get an e-book.
You'll have it immediately.
And hey, don't forget,
"Waking Up Catholic"
is available on e-book, too.
All right, so down in the comments,
I want to start a prayer chain.
If there's somebody that you
know that's been impacted
by coronavirus, please put a
prayer down there for them.
Please continue to pray for
those that need our help,
those in the nursing homes,
people that are homeless,
people that are living
in the jails right now,
people that really need our prayers
to get through this difficult time.

English: 
I wish the best for you.
I'm gonna continue to offer
my prayers and blessings.
I hope that we all make
it through this safely.
Thanks for stopping by,
and I'll see you in the next video, bye.
(gentle music)

English: 
I wish the best for you.
I'm going to continue to offer
my prayers and blessings.
I hope that we all make
it through this safely.
Thanks for stopping by,
and I'll see you in the next video, bye.
(gentle music)
