In 1633, when the bubonic plague swept through Europe and taking lives from one in four people in an alpine town in Bavaria, Germany, villagers in Oberammergau made a promise to God.
They swore to perform a Passion Play depicting the last weeks of Jesus's life every 10 years if their lives could be spared.
“And they did that. The first performance took place here in this church," Pastor Thomas Groener said, adding that nobody else died after that.
Oberammergau kept their promise and staged the play every decade for the past four centuries.
But not the 2020 edition. The show had to be delayed due to the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus.
This time, due to the plague coming from the East. Bavaria became the worst-hit area of Germany, which has one of the highest number of confirmed cases in the world.
So what happened to Bavaria and why is the situation there so dire?
We need to start from Bavaria's "patient zero."
On Sept. 7, 2019, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Wuhan, China, cutting the opening ribbon for a new car parts factory by German manufacturer Webasto.
By her side was the mayor of Wuhan, Zhou Xianwang, as well as a large business delegation from Germany.
Three months later, German state Bavaria detected its patient zero of the CCP virus. The virus had come from the very same factory Merkel visited.
The 33-year-old Webasto employee was infected by a Chinese colleague who traveled to Germany for company training.
As of April 14, over 30 thousand residents of Bavaria have contracted the virus. Over 800 have died.
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Over the past decades, politicians and businesses in Bavaria have built an increasingly close relationship with a regime that threatens the German state’s economic independence, national security, and freedom of speech; a regime known for burning Bibles, jailing Christians, and tearing down churches, and with arguably the worst record for persecuting people of faith.
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