The Blues

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Landon with his wife and Four Daughters

Pastor Landon Spradlin was not worried about coronavirus, when he went to New Orleans to preach, during Mardi Gras . A month later, he was dead.

"He loved to laugh. He loved to play the guitar. He played the guitar, even if he should," says Jesse Spradlin of her father, Landon.

"He was simply The Best man in The World . "

One Day , when all this is over, to keep The Wife and the five children of pastor Landon Spradlin hope, a great solemn memorial for him.

For now you have to do not with a funeral, which there only were a handful present, including The Blues guitarist, played at the grave.

A little over a month ago, Pastor Spradlin, who was 66, was driving with his wife Jean, the 900 miles (1,500 km) from his home in Virginia, Louisiana, Mardi Gras .

He regarded the festivities as an opportunity, through the music to save The Souls of some of The Hundreds of thousands of people who would attend.

He was together with two of his daughters, who came from Texas.

"was His mission, in pubs, clubs and bars, play The Blues and in conjunction with musicians and tell them that Jesus loved them," says Jesse Spradlin, 28.

Pastor Spradlin (center), and Jean on the keyboard, during Mardi Gras

"Mardi Gras is like the Times Square in New York during the New Year 's Eve. It is a sea of people that drink and celebrate," she says. "He was loud and laughing, and in his element. "

in the past years, Pastor Spradlin realized had A Dream that the sermon he had honed in the churches, in the three States, and on the roads through The Medium he loved.

He had taken up playing instruments since the Age Of four and in the year 2016 in The Blues Hall of Fame, but it was not religion, he felt, had saved him from alcoholism and drug addiction in his twenties.

the dark years are why he now had a special affinity for those who felt down and out, something he was able to.

In the Mardi Gras , The Family band played in New Orleans has Jackson Square , unaware of The Threat they faced.

"I don't even remember that we said in the conversation about The Virus ," Naomi Spradlin, 26. "What happens is we hold us back, and we have not spoken about it once. "

they were not the only ones. Although already More Than a month since The First coronavirus case in the United States, Mardi Gras went on as planned.

officials in the town now the fault of the government inaction for what seems to have been a great increase in cases, followed.

Pastor Spradlin was one of those who was sick, but tested negative for Covid-19. Even when he was sick, he posted on Social Media about the "hysteria" of The Virus .

On the 13th of March, Pastor Spradlin together on Facebook a misleading post-comparison of the swine flu, and the coronavirus-dead.

He suggested that Barack had been treated, Obama, and Donald Trump , or, very differently by the media and it was a politically-motivated conspiracy to damage The President Trump.

Earlier on the same day, The President himself had suggested something very similar at a press conference.

Pastor Spradlin's son, Landon Isaac, 32, told me that he and his father had spoken, and agreed what they felt, was to make an irrational frenzy and panic about The Virus , perhaps because it was an election year.

"I want to say, though, the father wanted to that it was a Fake, he knew, that it tells a real virus," Landon Isaac.

"But he has made the post because he was frustrated that the media propagate fear as the main mode of communication," he told me.

until the middle of March, though, Pastor Spradlin's health suddenly took a turn for the worse. He and his wife decided to make the long journey back to New Orleans in their home in Virginia.

"I spoke with him Five Minutes before he collapsed in North Carolina ," says Landon Isaac.

"I could tell his breathing was getting worse and worse. And I just said that you have got to come home. But he didn't make it. "

Pastor Spradlin funeral only had a handful of guests and no Immediate Family

Pastor Spradlin was in a hospital in North Carolina , where they discovered he had pneumonia in both lungs and he's now tested positive for the coronavirus

After Eight days in intensive care, Pastor Spradlin died.

"It's a lot like the dad stepped out of our support-column and someone that support column. It feels like The Roof is Falling Down on all our heads now," says Landon Isaac. to communicate

For the days that he and his four siblings had with their mother through the glass door of their home. The Funeral has happened occurred on The Day after Jean Spradlin quarantine finally come to an end.

"We just never thought our father would pass away because of this. But he was not the kind of person who only live In Fear and let it Rob him of the joy of life that he had," says Jesse Spradlin.

she thinks that Mixed Signals and she sees it, an inability to trust in the media contributed to the confusion about The Virus .

"I was frustrated with The Way that the media was very Driven agenda - and it is on both sides. I feel like the coronavirus question turned Into Something that was 'party-to-party', instead of One Nation under God," she says.

Jesse said that the long-standing polarization of The American media made it hard to know what To Believe and what is political hype.

The TV coverage of The Crisis , and The President , the handling is very different, depending on the posture of The Network .

And it is remarkable how Americans seem to view the pandemic in different ways, depending on your policy, polls show that Republicans are more inclined to think it was an over-reaction on the Corona-Virus; Democrats, that he is not taken seriously enough.

Jesse feels that the extent of The Crisis , one that took The Life of her father, that needs to change.

"There is still so much on The News , agenda-Driven , even though the people will perish," she says.

"This is Our Country , and unless we begin to act as a nation, We Are not really find a solution. But for that to happen, a certain humility is necessary. "

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Source of news: bbc.com