In February, Texans found themselves in Covid & Snow-vid! Mask vs No-Mask? Vacc’d or not? Who could have imagined that these subjects would be so polarizing IN His Body?
UT’s 18 month strict Covid policy resembled West & East Coast views so classes were online or by hybrid & drastically removed campus life. Group gatherings over 10 were forbidden and mask mandates were policed several blocks off campus. Group gatherings were prevented on UT, but our small groups continued to gather: some in person, some via Zoom & others were hybrid.
How many of us, like most students, are “zoomed-out”? Our worship gatherings met at a local church off campus for the fall of 2020 and Spring 2021, but we moved our gatherings back to campus in September! We continue to offer an online option like many churches.
Our annual opportunities to meet new UT students within the Covid season was drastically impacted with very few students on campus. In a 4 hour session of “tabling” our XA leaders might see a few dozen students walk past a location that 'usually' sees hundreds pass by. 2021 was supposed to provide hope until covid spiked again. I even “got it” on Feb 1.
By February 2021, no Texan wanted another mandated shut-down! Anyone care to stop a tall Texan in his boots & tell him to do somethin’ he ain’t wantin’ to do??
Then came a week-long, state-wide Snow-Vid, Snow-Maggedon or Texas-sized Snow-Pocalypse. Austin had already had a ‘very large 4” snowfall a month early! On the day I was cleared from the Vid, the boys & I were among the giddy, gleeful 100+ Austinites sledding on the local hill with an amazing 8” of snow!
While snowflakes of joy fell from the sky, so did the temperatures state-wide. With one-week of statewide record cold and blackouts, Texans were forced to stay inside with a weather-induced quarantine. While it was chaotic, Covid couldn’t spread with Texans in a weather-forced lockdown and thankfully, Covid spiking never returned.
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