13 Teves, 5782
December 17, 2021
Dear Friends,
Yesterday, Thursday Yud-Beis Teves, there was a sudden and marked uptick of COVID cases in the neighborhood. This, after weeks and months of relative quiet. Although not yet proven, all
indicators would suggest that this is due to the new Omicron strain.
What we know about the Omicron strain from South African data as it unfolds, is the following
1)It is much more contagious (20x) than previous strains.
2)Those who were infected with the original strain, or the Delta strain, are only minimally protected, and reinfection is very common.
3)People who have taken 2 doses of the vaccine, more than 6 months ago, are less likely to be infected. However, the protection afforded is certainly not adequate, and appears less than 50% effective at this time. Booster doses of vaccine do increase protection considerably.
4)The monoclonal antibody infusions, that have been used so effectively to lessen the illness, do not appear to be very useful against the Omicron strain.
5)The good news is that although still potentially very dangerous, the illness associated with the Omicron strain appears less severe, with fewer deaths and hospitalizations B”H.
With all the above in mind, and very few precautions in place currently within the community, the potential for a rapid and widespread outbreak exists locally.
We urge all those who may be vulnerable in any way, particularly the elderly, and those with underlying health conditions, as well as the general public, to take the above information to
heart, and protect themselves, using all of the mitigation strategies well known to everyone.
A good and healthy Shabbos,
Crown Heights Hatzalah
Thank you for this important update but it’s missing one important push (you referenced it in the last line) — mitigation strategies = vaccines and masks.
Come on, Crown Heights. Let’s stay safe!!!
The creator of the RNA vaccine technology, DR. ROBERT MALONE is against the Covid vaccine. What more do you need????
Unfortunately everything that Robert Malone has warned us about is coming to fruition.
It’s kind of rich throw accusations of “ulterior motives….” when you are more likely to trust those who went from saying “2 weeks to flatten the curve…” to “…hurry and get your fourth booster…” They have no ulterior motive what so ever.
Hospitals didn’t help, they killed patients during the peak.
Even if this was serious there is almost nothing a person can do to avoid this other than hide in a cave. Enough with the panicking.
The way to avoid this is to wear your mask and get vaccinated and boosted.
Also anti-social distance yourself by 12 feet and take 5 booster shots to enhance your sheeple mentality.
And you’re making jokes?
It causes mild symptoms and only 1 person died from it world wide. In israel and elsewhere hospitalizations are going down.yes its spreading but is not proven to be dangerous
One person died with it. Not of it.
It won’t heal you. Every little bit you can do to prevent getting sick Is an obligation
you can do a lot to prevent getting sick by wrapping yourself up and never going out again. The rest of us understand how to strike a sensible balance between health and hypochondria.
If you wear 16 masks you are not only protecting yourself from the previous and current variants but also against the variants to come.
Of course there are ways to avoid this. Have you been hiding in a cave? You avoid this by getting vaccinated and boosted and wearing your mask.
Instead they closed shop, starved and deprived patients of basic rights.
That is exactly the reason everybody should get vaccinated because sooner or later everybody will get the virus and we do not have any caves to hide in from this virus
…when everyone gets the virus, it won’t be any worse than any of the other cold or flu viruses out there, because that’s how viruses mutate. Brilliant! Now, why couldn’t that have been done two years ago already, and then this would long since have been over?
An estimated 30% of Covid cases lead to “Long Covid” aka PASC (Post Acute Sequelae of Covid-19), a debilitating post-viral syndrome that has been classified as a formal disability. Sure, some people are lucky enough to make it out of Covid without lifelong repercussions, but 30% is a huge number of people who are suffering daily debilitations: anywhere from needing to be on oxygen and losing the ability to walk to heart, lung and neurological dysfunction. I doubt most people here will take this warning seriously because it’s easier and more comforting to believe that Covid-19 isn’t that dangerous. I’m… Read more »
The ppl that are vaxed are also getting Covid. Covid is a mutating virus, and the vaccine was made for the 1st variant. There is a reason why the influenza vaccine is redone every yr.
In my opinion based on the fact that many many ppl who are positive for Covid are fully vaxed, and it’s a mutated virus that the vaccine was not made for this particular virus….
Yes there is get vaccinated it helps cut down hospitalization and mortality
you can even wear a Yechi mask, don’t worry
Have a little humility and recognize what your area of expertise is and isn’t. The same medical professionals and scientists who brought us other vaccines which have dramatically improved life for everyone, are overwhelmingly supporting the Covid vaccine too.
Your Oholei Torah education taught you how to learn Gemoro, not how to analyze medical data. All the time you spent learning Gemoro, they spent learning medicine. They don’t tell you how to learn Rashi and Tosfos, you shouldn’t tell them how to read scienctific data.
I don’t try to lobby for laws about conditions that they need to meet to live their lives they shouldn’t try to lobby for laws that affect my employment.
Put your mask on!!! Get vaccinated!!!! Get your booster shot!!! Please!!!
The vax isn’t effective against Omicron. Furthermore many people aren’t elegible for boosters yet. So what are they supposed to do? Follow your doctor’s advice.
The vaccine mitigates the impact of Omicron.
And most people are eligible for their boosters, I’m in my 20’s and I’m getting mine next week.
If you are not yet eligible for your booster, make sure you have your first and second dose.
What impact of omicron? All reports show it is very mild. People should not be scared of a few days of coughing and congestion
With covid people were screaming that the deaths weren’t high- people neglect to mention the long term after effects that MANY people are suffering with. We do not know the long term effects of this strain
People who aren’t eligible for boosters it’s usually because they got their second shot recently, which means the protection hasn’t waned yet.
(though Canada recently updated their recommendation to get boosted after 3 months instead of six).
If only people would advocate so passionately for people to do tshuva and cry out to G-d. Hashem is the Rofeh kol bosor. The vaccine wont save a yid nor will the masks or any other intermediaries. And especially not the doctors. Only the בורא ברוך הוא can heal a person.
Hashem is the only one who can heal anyone- yet Chassidus teaches us we need to make a Keili!
So many have already died, and if we don’t get vaccinated and boosted then so many more are to come. Please safe a life and get your shot.
If only our community would get vaccinated, so many lives would be saved. I’m very scared for what this winter is going to bring.
Winter is coming
This virus is very real and will continue to mutate until we all get vaccinated.
Please go get your shot!!
if the virus is mutating then it shows the toxic vaccine is ineffective, the polio vaccine PREVENTS one from getting polio and didnt require a booster every season summer, fall, winter and spring.
But to a point where it only has mild symptoms
Can a Rabbi here in Crown Heights come out with a public statement mandating the vaccine for Chabad Jews?! Would that be so hard?!
Just say the words. Spell it out for the morons in the back.
Getting vaccinated is required according to Halacha and science.
The sinas chinam in your comment is far worse than Omicron.
Take vitamins D, C, Zinc, Quercetin to prevent hospitalizations. You need to keep the immune system strong. If you get covid, make sure to treat ASAP with ivermectin, hydroxiclorin and monoclonal antibodies. This will prevent the need for vaccine or masks since it’s not a big deal to get covid if treated and prevented. My wife and other friends were all on this protocol and did not have bad cases when got covid. Like a bad flu and the vaccine we all know does not prevent covid, only supposedly prevents hospitalizations. Vaccine they are learning depletes the immune system and… Read more »
This is the answer. Strengthen the immune system instead of depleting it!! These supplements are proven effective and will not give you any unknown side effects.
Read the article, regarding monoclonals.
You’re giving medical advice, please give us, also, your credentials for dispensing this advice.
Thank you.
Do not listen to this commentator. Everything they wrote is not based on science. The best way to save your life and the lives of the people around you is to get vaccinated and boosted, and wear your mask indoors.
Covid is not like a bad flu. I had it back in March 2020 and I will be living with it’s effects for the rest of my life, and I’m young with no pre-existing conditions.
…since then it’s mutated to be, as in this article, less lethal. So yes, at this point it is like a bad flu. People getting vaccinated in 2021 isn’t going to help to go back in time to when you caught it in 2020.
Only the vir/gsk monoclonal is likely to remain effective.
Since the ivermectin controversy began, U.S. poison centers have seen a spike in ivermectin toxicity cases.
How can you take responsibility for the elders and those that have underlying conditions whoWill be hospitalized because they weren’t quick enough or knowledgeable enough to take your protocol beware you’ve been warned if catastrophes happen it’s on your shoulders
This will prevent the need for a vaccine is And outrageous medical statement are you a doctor to advise people not to protect themselves
Crown Heights is full of trump supporting, uneducated individuals. This winter was always going to bring another wave of death because no one here will get vaccinated.
I guess south africa and Europe and all those other places where Omicron is surging must be full of trump supporting uneducated individuals as well. Check your antisemitism by the door, please.
Trump’s the one who pushed the vaccine.
…more to the point, didn’t just talk about it, but pushed for a government program to get not one, but three, vaccines developed. For his troubles he got prominent Democrats saying that they wouldn’t take the “Trump vaccine,” only to be turning around now and saying that you better take it or you’ll lose your job.
“trump supporting , uneducated “? just wow. Speak for yourself only please .
Didn’t he say I’ll be over shortly it’s just like another flu well it turns out this could be going on for years with new mutations
…those mutations will become progressively less dangerous. Like Omicron now. Like every other respiratory virus throughout history. Look up the Spanish flu of 1918, for example, and compare its death toll to that of flu nowadays (it was far worse than Covid).
What about loving your fellow Jew!
Calling everyone uneducated isn’t going to do anything. Most people saw the hypocritical nature of our government, telling us what to do and then not doing it themselves.
(Newsom, Fauchi, pelosi etc)
Our job is to not be like our secular leaders, we must stay strong and support each other.
Listen to the person who is sharing preventative wisdom, help each other with good solid advice. Calling people names is why our world is the way it is. The Churban of hate must stop.
It seems that for some the right for them to encourage others to vaccinate comes with the right to say horrific things
Interesting that you say the unvaccinated are the problem.
Last I’ve seen, the vaccinated are not “fully protected” either
Maybe we just need to accept that covid is one of the viruses of the world now, and let’s move on
So you have nothing to worry about.
1.we are saying one of the things trump is doing wrong is not criticizing the mask mandate. all trump is doing about the mandate is saying if he will be in office people will trust the vaccine. there was plenty of real trump supporters told me before the 2020 election, they will not trust the vaccine right away and wait even if trump administration made it. the only difference would have been, there would have been no vax mandate, because the liberals would have also been against it. 2.there are plenty of Bernie supporters(free thinkers) that is against the vax… Read more »
2)Those who were infected with the original strain, or the Delta strain, are only minimally protected, and reinfection is very common.
source?
maybe an elevated risk. to say minimally protected is fearmongering
Get your vaccine, get your booster, wear your mask indoors.
I’d like to think that this would encourage anti-vaxxers to change their minds, but I highly doubt they will.
We’re in for a terrible winter because of them.
So many are refusing vaccination. I’m so scared.
The last words from the Baal Shem Tov’s father to him were: Fear nothing other than G-d. זאלסטו זוכה זיין צו זיין געזינט און שטארק.
Are you God?? How dare you talk like that what this winter will bring r”l!
Everyone should have good health and long lives.
The unvaccinated are going to be responsible for another wave of death this winter.
March 2020 everyone in CH was responsible for those old people who died.
Just face it. It’s obvious. The vaccines don’t curb the spread and 50% of the time don’t work to prevent serious symptoms as the article says.
Protect the elderly, and let’s move on from this.
No one is responsible for whar happens in the world other than G-d Boruch Hu and He knows whats best for us and patiently is waiting for us to do tshiva and return to Him. Fear not, rather cry out to the Bashefer in Himel and ask Him to protect you and all אידישע ברידער
masks dont work, vaccines are toxic, boosters are just a Pharma lobby $$$$ maker. Dont buy the hype, yes like the flu youll be sick for 2 days and have fever sweat it out with tea and chicken soup and will be fine, yes dont cough all over other people and leave dirty tissues.
what other proof do you need to get yourself vaccinated?
…proof that the vaccine actually works even against the existing variants?
…proof that it doesn’t cause conditions far worse, such as heart problems?
…proof that it will work against Omicron?
…proof that getting Omicron is so much more dangerous than any other respiratory virus (considering that its discoverer has stated that it’s not)?
And so forth.
We have a vaccine and yet we’re all going to let a second wave hit this community because we refuse to take it.
How does someone find out which variant he has?
I used to get the cold/flu every year until:
I started, earing less carbohydrates and
Started with intermittent fasting.
Many studies came out suggesting Covid and metabolic health are closely related. A simple suggestion therefore would be, to enhance your metabolic health. But How?!
Simply by eating less processed carbohydrates and eating less frequently.
By doing so, you produce less insulin (which is a fat/unhealthy driving factor)…
In Chasidishe oisiois “a little Iskafya, Will go a long way”.
I wish there was a vaccine to help prevent outbreaks like this.
Please let this not divide us. Stay safe and do what you feel is right. The Rebbe would want us to all be bachdus, even if we have different views
I’m thinking of all the health care workers, and I’m blaming all the unvaccinated.
🤡🤡
Enough of this BS.
Covid is a virus just like the flu. Everyone will get it. It’s just a matter of time.
Strop throwing everyone into a panic. The anxiety and panic is causing more harm than Covid itself.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m fed up of seeing all the panic and everyone freaking out and stop living a normal life.
Those who want something to worry about because they like drama and chaos, do what you want but don’t bring it on to everyone else who wants to live their lives.
Preach!!!!
According to the CDC the hospitalization rate compared to those who tested positive is less than 1%. For those “not at risk,” it’s even less than that. And this doesn’t even include all the people who got the virus and never got tested.
For those who have been following the news, ALL the Covid Omicron cases at Cornell University were people who were fully vaccinated, and some of them boosted too. In Scandinavia, at two separate Xmas parties, over 50 people in each place became infected with Omicron, ALL had been fully vaccinated. In Great Britain, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, almost the entire country is getting sick, more each day, with Omicron. The vaccinations do not work whatsoever against infection with Omicron, although apparently they still seem to be preventing death and maybe hospitalization. Priior immunity… Read more »
You guys are all anti-life!! It’s like you guys are just idiots by being anti-medical recommendations!! If you want many to die like a yr and a half ago keep going and not listen to the medical advice!! It is a shame that it looks like you guys have not learnt what life and death is.. It does not hurt to get a prick 2-3 times which might save your life… Or someone else’s! It does not hurt to put a mask on! You guys make no sense!! These things that are hoping to stop you from dying you don’t… Read more »
“You are not entitled to your opinion when it comes to medical matters! “You are not entitled to your opinion when it comes to Torah matters! “Freedom, exchange of ideas, are all beautiful principles – but the Torah principle is that when it comes to medical matters, our job is to follow what doctors are saying. “People think they have to research and check out every single thing…it’s not your job to research this stuff. When did you become a doctor? When did that become your responsibility? “A, It’s a waste of time and bittul Torah. And B, the Rebbe… Read more »
There is also a letter of the rebbe that says not to trust doctors and do your own research because the doctors don’t have time to do proper research and you can’t trust the producers of the drug
80% of cases were fully vaccinated even with 3 doses so vaccination isnt the cure all for this mild variant. Hospitizations are going down even with the spread of this variant. Makes more sense to take vit D vit C and zinc and quercetin as prevention
Most people probably already got it a few weeks ago
is now becoming the yearly flu/common cold..
everyone do what you think is right but don’t tell other people what to do!!!
2 simple questions people who are vaxxed should answer
if I’m not vaccinated why does it affect you? if you are vaccinated then arent you safe?