RELIGION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Texas-based evangelist with ties to President Donald Trump came under fire this week after video re-surfaced of her telling followers that they don’t need to get a flu shot because ‘Jesus himself gave us the flu shot.’
Gloria Copeland, a member of the president’s faith advisory council, posted the video last Wednesday, but it began to gain traction this week after a number watch groups re-posted it on social-media channels…
A devastating flu outbreak has killed dozens since October… At least 53 children have died from the flu this season, including 16 just last week, according to the CDC.
Copeland, a co-founder the Fort Worth, Texas-based Kenneth Copeland Ministries, went on to pray for those who were already displaying flu-like symptoms, telling them to protect themselves by declaring ‘I’ll never have the flu.’
‘That’s great — that’s the way it’s supposed to be,’ she continued. ‘Just keep saying that *I’ll never have the flu. I’ll never have the flu.* Inoculate yourself with the word of God. Flu, I bind you off the people in the name of Jesus. Jesus himself gave us the flu shot. He redeemed us from the curse of flu.’ “
-Karen Allen, “Trump adviser says ignore flu shots and ‘inoculate yourself with the word of God’,” ABC News, Feb. 7, 2018 05:43am