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# Abandonment
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/50242/
- Published: 2020-05-21T13:44:21.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-21T13:44:21.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Virtue or Vice?

When it comes to one's own death, when does a person cross the line from abandonment to God's will (the finest thing) to reckless disregard for one's own health and life (a potential sin . . . [***Catechism* 2288**](http://w2.vatican.va/archive/ccc%5Fcss/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com))? When does abandonment turn into the heresy of Quietism?

Those, I think, are the million dollar spiritual questions in these COVID times.

Based on **[a conversation between Tom Woods and Thaddeus Russell](https://tomwoods.com/ep-1655-why-does-the-left-favor-lockdowns/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)**, the death rate from COVID increasingly appears to be far less than we originally feared, and it appears that **[re-opening the economy is, for some mysterious reasons, not resulting in more infections](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/as-though-something-has-changed-former-who-official-says-coronavirus-not-increasing-in-reopened-areas?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)**.

I can't draw the line between abandonment/recklessness--abandonment/quietism in my own soul, much less map out a standard for everyone else. We each need to work it out for ourselves, but I increasingly lean strongly toward abandonment at this time.

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There won't be much blogging this weekend. As always, holiday weekend = slow blogging.

I hate to say this because the response to the reinvigorated TDE has been great. I started more "substantive" blogging in late March. My readership in April went up almost 20%. The numbers aren't back to the halcyon days when I wrote a blogging column for *National Catholic Register*, but the significant (and quick) uptick makes me think blogging is, indeed, still a viable publishing outlet.