Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Pods podcast.

We are doing our fifth live stream with Dr. Heather Hying to my right.

We are going to be talking today as we have been about the developing situation with the COVID-19 virus and the global lockdown that we are all facing.

First we are going to start with some business and then some corrections.

The business I think involves alerting people to the fact that we are as we did a couple of weeks ago, we are still experimenting with different ways to make this all function.

But we are going to do something on the order of a half hour to 45 minutes of live discussion.

You can file super chat questions during that time and then we will address those questions in a separate live stream, which will be linked in the description to this.

Live stream after a few minute break. Hopefully this will all work out. Hopefully you won't face any lag on your end.

We are still working out the technology behind having the podcast here.

And so if there are any technical glitches, please bear with us. We're doing what we can.

So just to be just to be clear, just like in our third live stream, we're going to have a conversation with each other here for half an hour to an hour, 45 minutes.

So please feel free to ask super chat questions during that time.

We can't see any of the chat or the super chat, Zach, our son and tech support and producer is doing all that work behind the scenes.

And then we'll take a break, brief break, and then come back with the second live stream immediately afterwards and address hopefully all of the super chat questions that you have asked during this and during the second Q&A live stream.

Great. Alright, so let's start with two corrections.

I have two corrections this week and then I have a note about something we discussed at the end of last week.

The two corrections are as follows. One, I said that I thought it made sense for the Pope to issue a decree, which I think would be called an encyclical, that declared cremation to be a viable form of body disposal for Catholics.

And the Pope has done this, but apparently he did so in the 50s.

So anyway, I'm a little bit behind the curve on that.

Now, it doesn't change the point very much.

I still think it would be wise for the Pope to say something clear about the desirability of dealing with bodies fast enough, such that even if people in Latin America are desiring of a more traditional burial,

that the priority here probably involves bending those expectations a bit and getting the system back to functioning, which could mean larger scale cremation, or it could mean temporary burial of bodies in a way that they could be exhumed and re-barried later, which one of the Ecuador officials did release a statement saying that it was very important that these bodies be buried individually with...

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