The Greek physician, Hippocrates, is credited with saying “Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.” He is said to have used the phrase to emphasize that when a disease is serious, a remedy with greater potency is needed to be able to cure it. To be sure, our world leaders are thinking of finding “great remedies” to deal with this “desperate disease” called COVID-19. Last night, President Alejandro Giammattei addressed the Guatemalan people and expressed fifteen steps that will be taken to try to minimize the contagion of this virus. In the list of actions, the president said, “Any type of event is prohibited, regardless of the number assembled” and “In-person religious celebrations are suspended.” These are part of the “remedy” that is intended to respond to this “desperate disease.”
Therefore, all of us understand the reason we have to cancel our graduation activities for the Zeta Class scheduled for this Sunday, March 22. We thank everyone who had made plans to attend our activities and to celebrate with our graduates and with us. We plan to prepare a special post that honors and congratulates our brothers and sisters, and hope you celebrate with them with your responses and likes, even if you cannot do so in person.
We encourage you to take precautions during this time. Proverbs 22:3 says,
“A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.”
We have already seen how this virus has affected other countries much more developed than ours. Let us not be “simple” in our way of thinking ignoring the signs of the “evil” that has come to us. Let’s act wisely and think about others.
Finally, let’s keep praying, brothers and sisters. These times demand “great remedies” and there is no greater “remedy” than that which comes from God, prayer! (Luke 6:12; James 5:16).