The ranks are going to be pretty decimated in some States because of that ongoing need for dollars.

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

The celebrity cult can’t get any celebrities through the door because they don’t want to possibly die.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t getting everyone else in the door in the areas where they can.

The ranks are going to be pretty decimated in some States because of that ongoing need for dollars.

Scientology

Scientology stays open, but says its virus prevention is the best ‘on Earth’

CLEARWATER — As medical experts and government officials warn that staying home is the best strategy to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Church of Scientology has deployed its own response to continue services and spiritual counseling at its international spiritual headquarters.

Every parishioner staying in church retreats or going into a facility in Clearwater has their temperature taken before entering, spokesman Ben Shaw said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times.

All food consumed at the downtown headquarters, known as the Flag Land Base, is sanitized with a newly installed ozone water system, which Shaw said “kills any pathogen including viruses.”

As many as 350 staff members have been reassigned to full-time cleaning, a routine that includes wiping doorknobs, handles, staircase handrails “continuously throughout the day, nonstop.” Staff living quarters are thoroughly wiped and decontaminated daily, as are air conditioning ducts, restrooms and other spaces, Shaw said.

On Monday, members of the Sea Org, the church’s military-style workforce, were still packing buses as they moved from living quarters to church buildings.

Shaw said each bus “is completely wiped down” with decontamination7, a powerful cleaning agent, after each use.

While the global pandemic has prompted religious organizations to suspend congregating or transition to virtual services, Scientology has not halted the practices that have parishioners and staff interacting in person. Paid services are one of the primary sources of income for the organization, and the system is kept functioning by the full-time Sea Org.

Last week, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties enacted orders directing residents to stay home except for essential activity like trips for groceries, medical needs and jobs deemed essential. The “safer at home” orders permit non-essential businesses to operate as long as patrons follow federal social distancing guidelines to keep at least 6 feet apart in groups no larger than 10 people.

The orders did not include religious exemptions. While churches across Tampa Bay and the nation have suspended services, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested River at Tampa Bay Church Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne after he hosted Sunday services that drew hundreds. He was warned by deputies not to host the congregation.

In Scientology’s auditing rooms, where parishioners sit across from a spiritual counselor and hold devices called e-meters, Shaw said furniture has been rearranged to keep people 6 feet apart. Auditing rooms and course rooms, where parishioners study works by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in groups, are being supplied with hand sanitizer, he said. – Source

Scientology Chief David Miscavige Is a Coronavirus Denier, Says Top Critic

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the planet—with the global toll on Tuesday surpassing 400,000 cases and 18,000 deaths—the Church of Scientology is officially scoffing at the pandemic and encouraging followers to continue normal religious activities while treating traditional science and governmental authority with skepticism.

In a March 13 eyes-only memo to his estimated 25,000 to 55,000 members in the United States, Scientology leader David Miscavige called the international public-health crisis “the current hysteria, whether you believe in it or not (and the only thing you can be certain of is that it is hysteria)…”

Miscavige—who has led the church since Jan. 24, 1986, when founder L. Ron Hubbard “dropped his body to continue his research on another planet,” as Scientologists describe his death—continued: “Have no doubt, there is no slowing down for us…So once this current situation passes—and it will pass—you are going to need a seatbelt for when the rocket boosters fire for liftoff.”

Noted Scientology critic Tony Ortega, who posted Miscavige’s memo on his Underground Bunker website Tuesday morning, told The Daily Beast: “For the last 11 days, all Scientologists have been getting calls to come down and read it in person. They didn’t want to email it because they didn’t want anybody else to see it. It’s supposed to be secret, but I managed to get a copy.”

Ortega said Miscavige’s memo—titled “Inspector General Network Bulletin No. 88”—is especially significant because it was issued on L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday, a day that would have featured a massive celebration, Scientology’s most important observance.

Noting that Scientology “protocol mandates against a mass gathering in times of illness and disease,” Miscavige lamented in his memo that “our event hall in Clearwater has cancelled all public events until at least April,” including “our annual Weekend of all Weekends.”

“They shut it down and he was very angry about it, so he put out that briefing that day,” Ortega said. “They’re trying to get people to come in. They’re saying you gotta stay with the courses and auditing, and they’re worrying about the money drying up. Scientology was not set up to be done over the internet. It really requires person-to-person contact.”

Miscavige claimed in his memo that Scientology workers are “preventing and/or killing whatever this virus is,” if indeed it’s real, by sanitizing the church’s various properties with “massive infusions of airborne ozone, as well as nebulized peroxide and Decon7.”

He added parenthetically: “(If you haven’t seen these applications, that’s because the operation occurs in unoccupied spaces before you arrive.)”

Ortega commented that such measures will likely do nothing to protect some 3,000 employees and members of Scientology’s Sea Org army who live “cheek by jowl” in densely crowded church installations in Los Angeles, California, Clearwater, Florida, and other locales.

“You don’t catch it from the building. You catch it from another person,” Ortega said. “Miscavige is endangering the people who work for him.” – Source