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Amazing news
August 16, 2021 9:55 am

Thank GD!!

Move
August 16, 2021 9:55 am

Time to make the move to Florida. Thank G-d we still have our freedoms here.

Health
Reply to  Move
August 16, 2021 2:18 pm

I’ll take health over freedom, thanks.

Mhhm
Reply to  Health
August 16, 2021 2:37 pm

“oh government! Please protect me!!”

Look
Reply to  Mhhm
August 16, 2021 4:01 pm

Too many in this community think they know better than the medical experts and it won’t end well. All the antivaxxers here show exactly why government needs to step in.

Maybe you can show
Reply to  Look
August 16, 2021 4:56 pm

what exactly makes them experts, besides their saying that they are? Because there’s scarcely a thing they’ve gotten right in the last 20 months.

Experts?
Reply to  Look
August 16, 2021 7:06 pm

You mean the same ones who said we can catch covid at Jewish funerals and weddings but not at blm protests, those experts?

What is the purpose of getting the vaccine?
Reply to  Look
August 17, 2021 10:27 am

Do you know.

Then you are a fool
Reply to  Health
August 16, 2021 7:16 pm

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

Liberty does not come for free. We enjoy it in the USA because our founders fought, killed, and died for it. It follows that liberty is more important than human lives, and therefore kal vachomer it is more important than mere health.

Health Over Freedom
Reply to  Health
August 16, 2021 8:18 pm

Being that you value your health over your freedom, may I suggest that you check yourself into prison.

Prison offers superb, FREE healthcare. In addition, it’s a very safe place. You see, all guns and weapons are outlawed and plenty of guards roam the grounds 24/7.

Good luck.

Well said!
Reply to  Health Over Freedom
August 18, 2021 10:15 pm

So true! Comparing it to prison….👍🏻

You'll take Health over Freedom?
Reply to  Health
August 18, 2021 2:52 pm

Then you deserve neither. Neither safety (health) or freedom.
“Give me Liberty or give me Death!” – Patrick Henry; Founding Father of the United States

You can still get covid & are contagioys
Reply to  Health
September 17, 2021 6:19 am

You fools you can and many have still gotten the virus even after having the jab, you are still contagious. You going to gurantee those in these public placeß don’t have it? Untill that is 100% that nobody gets it after being vaccinated, then you people make no sense acting as if you are safer. Plus they still do not know how long the vaccs last. You get it jabbed or not. You going to gurantee I won’t catch it from a vaccinated person??? You can’t so stop with your preaching to anyone who does not want it.

Move to israel
Reply to  Move
August 16, 2021 3:35 pm

Time to move to israel

Amen
Reply to  Move to israel
August 16, 2021 11:40 pm

Although, at this rate, IDK when they will be open again for non-Israelis

but maybe wait a little
Reply to  Move
August 16, 2021 9:03 pm

until their hospitals are not so overrun and overburdened with Covid patients!

USSR
August 16, 2021 10:08 am

Communism! mandating papers

True!
Reply to  USSR
August 16, 2021 2:34 pm

Also, this new Mayoral proclamation violates HIPAA laws, which protect patients’ privacy about their medical history and status. That is: my 19-year-old’s pediatrician would be in violation of HIPAA laws if they answered me if I asked the Dr. whether or not my son requested and took the COVID injections. But strangers all over the city are mandated to see official proof that he took the shots, if he wants to enter a gym or restaurant, etc. “Emergency times call for emergency rules from the mayor,” you say? I reply: In June, it was found that flu deaths are occurring… Read more »

That is nonsense
Reply to  True!
August 16, 2021 7:20 pm

There is no HIPAA violation. HIPAA only controls what your doctor can say about you. Your doctor can’t tell anyone whether you’re vaccinated without your permission — but nobody is asking her to. YOU are being asked to show proof that you’ve been vaccinated. Not your doctor. And you own that information, so you are absolutely entitled to reveal it to anyone you like, and if you choose not to then you cannot enter these premises.

It's forcing you to reveal personal info.
Reply to  That is nonsense
August 17, 2021 5:56 pm

Why do HIPPA laws exist?
To protect individual privacy.
It’s not protected if you are forced by law to reveal your personal info publicly.

Incorrect
Reply to  It's forcing you to reveal personal info.
August 17, 2021 11:35 pm

HIPPA is there to prevent your DOCTOR from sharing your private information with OTHERS. If you are forced by law to reveal your personal info that is absolutely not HIPPA. That is your choice.

HIPAA
Reply to  It's forcing you to reveal personal info.
August 18, 2021 9:17 am

HIPAA not to protect you from revealing information about yourself. It’s to stop your doctor revealing information about you. You have a choice here. You might not like the choices you have (get vaccinated and go to the restaurant or don’t get vaccinated and don’t go) but there’s no HIPAA violation involved.

BH!!
August 16, 2021 10:19 am

I wish the CH schools would require the same thing of the staff.

Why?
Reply to  BH!!
August 16, 2021 11:26 am

Let the teachers decide. Most of them are recovered and most of the children in Crown Heights are recovered

Science
Reply to  Why?
August 16, 2021 2:43 pm

Unfortunately recovering from covid doesn’t mean you can’t get it or spread it again.

Watch over your children. Please go get vaccinated. Demand masks and vaccines in schools. Kids are dying.

vaccine
Reply to  Science
August 16, 2021 3:21 pm

Neither does the vaccine protect you from getting covid, I know more double vaxxed people who got covid than people who have had covid getting it a second time.

Vaccinated doesnt mean you cant get it
Reply to  Science
August 16, 2021 3:40 pm

60% of hospitalized covid cases in israel were vaccinated. Recovered means you likely wont get it again as this immunity lasts longer than the 4 month vaccine immunity

neither does the vaccine
Reply to  Science
August 16, 2021 4:06 pm

prevent you from getting or spreading it.

Kids are NOT dying
Reply to  Science
August 16, 2021 7:22 pm

The number of kids getting seriously ill from the Wuhan virus, let alone those dying from it, is negligible. NO measures are justified to prevent it,

landsman
Reply to  BH!!
August 16, 2021 2:29 pm

Its time to let adults be adults. Everyone over the age of 12 has had the opportunity to get the vaccine. If they don’t want to, it’s they’re problem.

I wish
Reply to  landsman
August 16, 2021 2:42 pm

Unfortunately adults who don’t get vaccinated could be carrying the virus, and they could easily give it to a child.

Adults need to start thinking about the children. Kids are dying and we’re the ones killing them.

Go get vaccinated.

Vaccinated doesnt mean you dont carry virus
Reply to  I wish
August 16, 2021 3:42 pm

Vaccination doesnt mean you cant get and spread the virus. It just means you will get a milder case if vaccinated

Agree. Cruise 🚢 ship 🛳 get covid
Reply to  Vaccinated doesnt mean you dont carry virus
August 17, 2021 10:55 am

People on the cruise ship got covid all were vaccinated except kids … and they got it anyway

Incase anyone has been waiting...
August 16, 2021 10:26 am

To move out of nyc!!!! Now is the time!

Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 10:39 am

This is the only way to keep people safe.

If individuals continue to refuse getting vaccinated, the rest of us need to mask up and prepare for the continual downward spiral of this country.

The unvaccinated are responsible for so many deaths right now.

Funny
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 11:25 am

“The unvaccinated are so responsible for many deaths right now.” Each time you say lashon hara or embarrass someone it’s like you killed them. I dont think you are ever worried or concerned about that, do you?

This is for the sake of saving a life
Reply to  Funny
August 16, 2021 2:45 pm

I won’t stop calling out the unvaccinated. They should be embarrassed and ashamed if that’s what it takes to get them to save a life.

Please go get vaccinated!!

Same as for spirituality which affects physicality
Reply to  This is for the sake of saving a life
August 16, 2021 3:32 pm

The day that you stop embarrassing people and saying lashon hara on a daily basis (without the vaccine as a topic) then I’ll think about getting the vaccine. Until then #novaccine

Unvaccinated are not to blame
Reply to  This is for the sake of saving a life
August 16, 2021 3:53 pm

Dont blame unvaccinated for the spread of the virus. This is a respiratory virus which mutates and will re occur. Even if everyone is vaccinated it wont stop the virus from mutating and re occuring because of animals resevoirs. Smallpox was only in humans so could be erradicated. Same way flu and colds re appear, so will covid since its also a respiratory virus. So stop blaming unvaccinated since vaccinated fuel the mutations

The vaccine is killing
Reply to  Unvaccinated are not to blame
August 16, 2021 11:29 pm

At this point those who are vaccinated are more likely to spread the virus and the vaccine is causing many many issues including death. I know people personally who have suffered from taking the vaccine so everyone stop with your stupidity and mind your own business. Let those who think they are saving the world by getting vaccinated do so, and those who think they are saving the world by remaining unvaccinated live their lives in peace

Crown heights
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 11:44 am

Realy…. can you tell me what the long term data is? For taking this experimental vaccine. Just because the media is telling you that it’s a safe and effective we don’t know that it’s safe and effective in the long-term

Look at the country
Reply to  Crown heights
August 16, 2021 2:46 pm

Look at America.

The states with the lowest vaccination rates are the states with the highest number of deaths.

Vaccines save lives. Science and reality prove that.

Please go get vaccinated!!

Opposite is true in israel
Reply to  Look at the country
August 16, 2021 4:00 pm

Areas like bayit vegan and hebron, old city, mesh shearim bet shemesh and arab areas where many were not vaccinated, are now green with no cases now. Children tested in hareidi areas who werent vaccinated have been found to have antbodies. Perhaps they reached herd immunity

Science
Reply to  Look at the country
August 16, 2021 4:32 pm

There is no:science to this covid vaccine saying you should get vaccinated, actually the science proves you should not. Ask all the real drs and scientists and 99% will say don’t get the vaccination. You can lie all you want and have all the lie media say to do it, but the science proves don’t take it

Really?
Reply to  Look at the country
August 16, 2021 10:30 pm

Because in deaths per 100,000, NY and NJ are still in exponentially higher than places like Texas and Florida.

another/same troll
Reply to  Look at the country
August 16, 2021 11:25 pm

“science” is a meaningless word in this context. get over it and stop repeating it like a broken record.
you can go back to your science cave now

The media is absolutely unreliable
Reply to  Look at the country
August 16, 2021 11:31 pm

The statistics being batted around are not reliable nor to be trusted.
The liberal generation of today was brought up to believe in The New York Times and other similar news sources. They gave up the ability to question or carefully examine the news being fed to them. They don’t question anything but conservative sources, commentators and reports.
Been there, done that. Don’t just accept something because it ‘fits into the NY Times’ or is reported on ANY media!

Experimental
Reply to  Crown heights
August 16, 2021 2:49 pm

Vaccine is NOT experimental. The research has been going on for many years, it went through three levels of clinical trials, and has been administered to hundreds of millions of people. Stop scaring people with dramatic wording.

Absolutely experimental
Reply to  Experimental
August 16, 2021 4:02 pm

Vaccine has emergency approval not full approval. All other vaccines were tested at least 10 yrs before released

Science
Reply to  Experimental
August 16, 2021 4:33 pm

Stop the lies. It has not been approved by the fda

Crown heights
Reply to  Experimental
August 17, 2021 6:04 am

So why wss it not fully FDA approved if its been going on for years. .please we know alot of freinds who took it and now they are regretting it. Lots of side effects they are seeing .thease side effects takes time to develope. You need at least 10 years of data .here there is a few months .please get your facts right

No way to know long term effects
Reply to  Crown heights
August 16, 2021 3:56 pm

Israel vaccinated most its population and 4 months later its hospitals are filled with mainly vaccinated. So now its a booster shot. How many booster shots in the end? No way to know the long term effects

My immunity...
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 12:34 pm

…from having recovered from COVID is far more protective than that from the COVID shots. It’s the _vaccinated_ who are contracting and spreading the Delta and other variants. Virtually no one who has natural antibodies for COVID has caught these latest variants. In contrast, MANY who took the jab(s) have contracted COVID afterwards. See stats from Eretz Yisrael; Provincetown, MA; Martha’s Vineyard (after ex-Pres. Obama’s crowded b-day party, a super-spreader event!), the runaway “Tx. Democrats” who spread the virus to staff members of D.C. politicians they met up with there; etc. This blaming the un”vaxxed” is SO hugely debunked by… Read more »

Curious
Reply to  My immunity...
August 16, 2021 2:19 pm

Do you have any data to back these claims up?

The latest data from the CDC shows that unvaccinated people who recovered from covid are almost two and a half times more likely to get reinfected compared to vaccinated people.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

One must understand the following
Reply to  Curious
August 16, 2021 3:41 pm

Read the FIVE caveats toward the end of the CDC study you cite.

And this is the same CDC that changes its tune every 5 minutes.

Plenty of data to back this up
Reply to  Curious
August 16, 2021 4:05 pm

I have seen this info from doctors online.

Oy …
Reply to  My immunity...
August 16, 2021 2:49 pm

Let me help you understand.

Anti-bodies do not last. Not only can you contract and spread covid again, but they will not help you or your children when it comes to the delta variant, which is way more contagious.

The vaccine will save your life, your children’s lives, and the world. Go get vaccinated. Do a mitzvah. Please.

Cite your sources
Reply to  Oy …
August 16, 2021 3:48 pm

PS: You will not find any sources that back up what you say. They do nor exist. You are just parroting from other similarly mistaken people

antibodies last
Reply to  Oy …
August 16, 2021 4:10 pm

I know people who still have strong antibodies from March 2020.

Also you can still get and spread covid even if you’ve had the vaccine.

Natural immunity is superior to vaccines
Reply to  Oy …
August 16, 2021 4:13 pm

Natural immunity can last a lifetime. Antibodies are not the only immunity. There is humoral immunity which lasts after antibodies are gone which is far superior to any vaccine and isnt being tested for. This vaccine makes a rise of antibodies which in israel disappeared after 4 months, causing israel to give boosters. In contrast those who had caught the virus and recovered rarely got it again. Natural immunity from surviving infection is far superior to any vaccine.
Vaccines offer nothing to those who already recovered from covid.

Oy...
Reply to  Oy …
August 16, 2021 7:21 pm

I want a rav to tell me that its a mitzvah to take the vaccine ……

They did
Reply to  Oy...
August 16, 2021 9:38 pm

The rabbis of Baltimore released a video and COL literally posted it on this website just a few weeks ago.

Maybe they injected LSD into you
Reply to  Oy …
August 16, 2021 11:28 pm

side effect: extreme paranoia

Mendel Gold
Reply to  Oy …
August 19, 2021 10:24 pm

sir, children have a 99.997% survival rate… so please stop scaring everyone into getting a shot based on your fiction that you picked up from mainstream media

Thank you
Reply to  My immunity...
August 16, 2021 4:04 pm

What you said is the absolute truth

Interesting
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 2:04 pm

Than why did u get vaccinated? Doesn’t it protect u? Something doesn’t make sense here.

Let me clarify
Reply to  Interesting
August 16, 2021 2:51 pm

I did get vaccinated BH! But I could still spread the virus to those who are unvaccinated and to children, therefore I wear my mask not to protect myself but to protect you.

You remaining unvaccinated means that I have to continue wearing my mask for your sake. You remaining unvaccinated means that you’re putting the lives of children at risk.

Do something selfless. Do something for innocent children who want to go back to school and live long enough to grow to adulthood. Get the vaccine and put your mask back on.

Clarify
Reply to  Let me clarify
August 16, 2021 4:36 pm

Just lock yourself at home for the next 10 yrs and hope no one gets sick from you. Don’t zoom or call anyone on the phone because you might transfer the terrible killing disease

you dont have to protect the unvaccinated
Reply to  Let me clarify
August 16, 2021 11:29 pm

they are in a much better place than you so spare the masks.
but for everyone’s mental health, stay home

Mendel Gold
Reply to  Let me clarify
August 19, 2021 10:31 pm

kindly let me explain to you that what your saying doesnt really add up. your saying that the worry is for those who arent vaccinated, who are those people exactly (?) i would assume those are ppl that covid isnt a threat to them, and re. the children, did you forget that they have a 99.997% rate of survival from covid (lol you have a better chance to r”l die from a bike accident then from covid), so my point is, please dont do anyone favors, enjoy life, and stop calling out people for their actions till you get deprogrammed… Read more »

Um ok?
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 2:21 pm

You can be fully vaccinated and still spread and catch it . I’m pretty sure senator lindsey graham was fully vaccinated and still got the ‘rona. Your point is? That unvaccinated people (btw, many of these people have valid reasons for not taking the vaccine-health Issues and the fact that there is no long term data on its effect on fertility , though there has been sadly many women who suffered miscarriages after vaxxing.) literally kill people ??!! Jeez. That means literally everyone in CH was a mass murderer in March 2020. Do you understand the severity of those words… Read more »

Untrue
Reply to  Um ok?
August 16, 2021 2:53 pm

When you don’t get vaccinated, you’re putting the lives of children at risk. You might not care about that but I do, so I will keep speaking up in support of the vaccine.

just stay home.
Reply to  Untrue
August 16, 2021 11:30 pm

for everyone’s sake

Vaccinated can spread the virus
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 16, 2021 3:45 pm

Vaccinated can spread the virus while getting a mild case of the virus. Look it up medically if you dont believe me

Show the legit data in your statement
Reply to  Yes yes yes yes
August 17, 2021 10:57 am

Prove it pls

What about those who cant be vaccinated
August 16, 2021 10:44 am

What about those who for medical reasons cant be vaccinated?
There are those who cant take certain vaccines due to allergy, or previous reaction.
My doctor told me i cant take certain vaccines.
There are those who object religiously due to aborted fetal cells in the vaccine( certain christians)
There are those who are recovered from covid and have antibodies and so dont need and should not take this vaccine.
I know the usa allows medical and religious exemptions for not taking vaccines, so someone needs to ask how this is handled

Christians
Reply to  What about those who cant be vaccinated
August 16, 2021 2:05 pm

And Jews!

There is NO halachic objection
Reply to  Christians
August 16, 2021 9:14 pm

whatsoever to vaccination. Any vaccination. There’s lots of halachic literature, and the upshot is that throughout history, the halachic position has always been to vaccinate. Anyone who’s using halacha as an excuse is simply wrong!

Counting down till November, please G-d
August 16, 2021 10:55 am

He expressed so much agreement that Cuomo should resign that here he comes back showing his true colors again. May we all have a easy tishrei despite his still officially being the mayor for now.

children
August 16, 2021 11:00 am

so children under 12 who are ineligible for the vaccine are just not allowed in restaurants?

Masks
Reply to  children
August 16, 2021 2:54 pm

Put masks on your children and ask to sit outside or at a socially distanced table.

Outside? In NYC winter and cold rains …
Reply to  Masks
August 17, 2021 10:47 am

Or hot summer …

Unvaxxed
August 16, 2021 11:11 am

Unconstitutional…

ימח שמם
August 16, 2021 11:12 am

משוגעים

The controversial but correct decision
August 16, 2021 11:53 am

These restrictions seem to be the only way to encourage the unvaccinated to take the vaccine. The rate of catching the virus has been proven to be MUCH lower for those who have taken the vaccine. Take a look at israel and how the chabad community over there have embraced the vaccine, and as a result have seen tremendous positive results. You have to he blind to not see this.

Shliach
Reply to  The controversial but correct decision
August 16, 2021 1:54 pm

The community where I live has been spared from Covid due to lots of isolation. Everyone got the vaccine and suddenly there is covid going around. I don’t need a smart guy on the news to tell me what’s going on – I see it with my own eyes.

Your eyes must not be allowing you to see the trut
Reply to  Shliach
August 16, 2021 2:49 pm

” the community where I live has been spared from covid”. Really? All communities got it but “yours” not?!How many shluchim lie? TELL THE TRUTH!

Time will tell
Reply to  The controversial but correct decision
August 16, 2021 2:23 pm

We’ll see a few years down the line how their community is doing … don’t jump so hastily the to conclusions…

Really? Look at the data
Reply to  The controversial but correct decision
August 16, 2021 4:29 pm

Kiryat malachi, and kfar chabad , and tzfat are now red cities. Kfar chabad is 9.9 out of 10 with over 250 cases. Kiryat malachi has over 400 cases. Kiryat malachi whose chabad rabbi called unvaccinated murderers, and kfar chabad whose rabbi
barred unvaccinated from shuls as well have the most cases as compared to bayit vegan, meah shearim, old city, who are green cities after not mass vaccinating and whose children are now testing as having immunity with antibodies
This can be found on the israel heath statistic map

So?
Reply to  The controversial but correct decision
August 17, 2021 8:42 am

The Chabad community in Israel embraces much more than just the vaccine. people in other countries tend to adopt the wider beliefs and normalcies of the country they’re in. for example, most ‘Chabad’ Israelis have no problem with socialized medicine, while Jews in the US would probably reject it. Jews are not some monolith will all the same opinions. we are all individuals that can think for ourselves and come to our own conclusions. We don’t need some slimy politician to tell us what to do. Someone who had no problem (and probably takes pride) to lock us in our… Read more »

here we go again
August 16, 2021 1:21 pm

and once again the most harmed by all this craziness are the restaurants…

Dang!
August 16, 2021 1:36 pm

This will complicate dating so much…

Oh my Gd
Reply to  Dang!
August 16, 2021 2:55 pm

If that’s literally the first thing that comes to your mind, you need to rethink your priorities.

Berel
Reply to  Oh my Gd
August 16, 2021 5:50 pm

getting married is more important than any priority I can think of what’s wrong with you

Yikes
Reply to  Berel
August 16, 2021 7:32 pm

Hahahahahaha I can’t believe you actually think that. Have fun living in the 1950s with trump.

What is that supposed to mean?
Reply to  Yikes
August 17, 2021 8:57 am

You believe that marriage is only for the 1950s? You believe that it’s only for Trump supporters? Are you serious?

Ridiculous
August 16, 2021 2:06 pm

Those recovered have far greater immunity than those jabbed.

It’s a fact.

All those who are delusional enough to believe that if we all got vaxxed lives would be saved is believing in a false messiah.

All this is doing is hurting businesses.
That’s all.
Not one of us who are not ready to take the risks of vaccinating will actually vaccinate so that we can have a burger
You’re totally missing the point

Good luck to the businesses though !

It’s not about the food
Reply to  Ridiculous
August 16, 2021 2:57 pm

No one cares if you don’t eat a burger, literally no one, just stay out of crowded places and don’t go near children.

The unvaccinated just need to steer clear of society and maybe kids will have a fighting chance of survival.

Really not true at all
Reply to  It’s not about the food
August 16, 2021 4:35 pm

In israel the children in hareidi areas where found to have antibodies without ever getting sick. The children were tested in schools to see if they needed isolation if they were to get exposed to someone with covid.
Children are more immune to this virus than adults

Parnossa
Reply to  It’s not about the food
August 16, 2021 4:39 pm

So you don’t care about your fellow Yid’s parnossa? Should all kosher restaurants go out of business. Thousands of Yidden have their panossa from such places. Shame on you!!!

children
Reply to  It’s not about the food
August 16, 2021 11:48 pm

Since when are kids at risk? For months it’s been the elderly at risk but the minute that isn’t a convenient way to play with people’s emotions anymore it changes to “you’re killing the kids.” This virus is really great at changing its target from the old to the children to the unvaccinated. Whatever is most convenient at the moment

Unconstitutional
August 16, 2021 2:25 pm

Congratulations USA! You have officially become an unfree society…well deserved! Continue putting faith in government instead of Gd and you’ll see what continues to happen. It’ll only get worse!

Gd created science
Reply to  Unconstitutional
August 16, 2021 2:57 pm

Do you still not get that?

Parnossa
Reply to  Gd created science
August 16, 2021 4:40 pm

Listen to the Torah and have faith in Hashem, not these scientists like Faucci who flip flops daily.

So?
Reply to  Gd created science
August 16, 2021 5:03 pm

G-d also created evil. G-d also created charlatans who dress up their pronouncements in fancy language, call it “science,” and bamboozle people.

WHY DO THEY NEVER MENTION NATURAL IMMUNITY??
August 16, 2021 3:18 pm

You are telling people here they are ‘killing others’?? It is well known that over 70% of crown heights recovered and had natural immunity since April 2020. And the majority of the elderly who were quarantined and others here who never had covid received the vaccine. So, no, most of us are not spreading anything thank you. It seems that natural immunity is more reliable than the vaccine according to doctors. How many people do you actually know who were sick with covid and then got it again? Maybe you’ve heard of one or two on wattsapp. Nothing is fool… Read more »

Cruel to talk that way
Reply to  WHY DO THEY NEVER MENTION NATURAL IMMUNITY??
August 25, 2021 10:49 pm

Thank you
It’s sick to say that the unvaccinated are making everyone sick. Cruel and untrue. How about the unvaccinated are healthy and have good immune systems and Hashem has helped them stay well and they aren’t spreading anything !!
I feel like we’re getting divided as a people, within families, among friends, guys can everyone just respect other people’s decisions wether to get the shot or not! Calm down everyone!!

G-d does not want relying on miracles
August 16, 2021 4:23 pm

So, have faith in G-d. Why bother taking
medicine or undergoing life-saving medical procedures?

Because
Reply to  G-d does not want relying on miracles
August 16, 2021 5:04 pm

those medicines and lifesaving procedures have been tested, and the risks vs. benefits of them are known. This one has not, and so far it seems that the risks far outweigh the benefits.

Tell you what
August 16, 2021 5:18 pm

How is it that the vaccines are available in such a fairly short time? It was thanks to Operation Warp Speed, which, to quote Wikipedia, “was a dual public–private partnership initiated by the United States government under the Donald Trump administration to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.” Meanwhile, you had people such as the current vice president of the United States pooh-poohing any vaccine developed under the Trump administration. So, all those commenting on how vital the vaccine is, and how anyone who doesn’t take it is putting lives in danger,… Read more »

Klipas Noga
August 16, 2021 6:04 pm

Both sides in this global argument sprinkle their positions with truths, lies, assertions, assumptions, beliefs and hopes into one package. It’s therefore quite difficult to create a position, maintain it or have a logical debate. Here’s what I (and you could) know (firsthand): People who did not get COVID, whether vaxxed or unvaxxed can get COVID, with minimal or no symptoms, or with heavy symptoms, many survive and some die. And the same mix happens to people who have had COVID. The debate swirls around percentages – how many of each category are there. There’s no one standard for counting… Read more »

two people I know fully vaccinated got covid
August 16, 2021 8:04 pm

My landlord’s son and daughter-in-law were both fully vaccinated, and they both got Covid at a wedding. They were both really sick, and even worse, their disabled young son got Covid from them with a 104 fever and had to be taken to the hospital. This is in Valley Stream. Please note that they were both FULLY VACCINATED and extremely careful, only eating outside, wearing masks when they visited their parents, etc. etc. After seeing this, tell me what is the point of getting the vaccine? In Israel 40-60% of vaccinated people get Covid. The one good thing is that… Read more »

Doesn't prevent death either...
Reply to  two people I know fully vaccinated got covid
August 17, 2021 10:11 am

Many died after “vaccine”

What does this vaccine do?
Reply to  two people I know fully vaccinated got covid
August 25, 2021 10:51 pm

Maybe the vaccine is weakening people’s immune systems, did anyone think of that? And that’s why people who are vaccinated are catching COVID

See if you are under pressure to ignore his name.
August 16, 2021 8:47 pm

I think Zev Zelenko sheyichye is ” a doctor a friend”. Watching one of his videos with attention should clear up the issues and provide references. This is not a simple issue, even without all the deliberate confusion.

Some of these comments are horrifying
August 16, 2021 9:43 pm

WE ARE JEWS!!

WE FOLLOW THE TORAH AND HASHEM!!

WHY ARE WE NOT ALL VACCINATED?!

CHILDREN ARE DYING!!

CHILDREN. ARE. DYING.

GO GET VACCINATED!!!

Stop spreading lies
Reply to  Some of these comments are horrifying
August 17, 2021 6:43 pm

I don’t know where this fear mongering is coming from that children are dying. Most people who test positive for Covid have very mild symptoms and very little die. Children are even less likely to have any symptoms, never mind die from the virus, even with the new variant (which btw is not so new, we’ve had it for a few months where I’m from and the fact that the US is just freaking out about it now is mind boggling). Also, there are many people, who feel that getting the vaccine is unnecessary due to having antibodies/having had Covid… Read more »

Just praying
August 16, 2021 9:50 pm

I can’t deal with all this anti-vaccine propaganda. It’s too sad and disappointing. To those who are refusing vaccines: you are killing people and you are guilty of murder. I’m davening for the safety of all the children about to go back to school when the faculty and the parents aren’t requiring masks and vaccines. I’m davening for the teachers in the schools who are sadly and cruelly not getting vaccinated and putting themselves and their students in serious danger. I’m davening for the country and all those within it who aren’t looking out for their families, for their neighbors,… Read more »

Get vaccinated
August 16, 2021 9:51 pm

It’s free, it’s easy, it saves lives.

Two countries
August 16, 2021 9:54 pm

I’ve always believed that we should just send all the crazy unvaccinated republicans to the south and let them die there. If they want their “freedom” then they can go have it elsewhere.

Science believing liberals can take the coasts and live in peace and equality.

Two countries seems like the easiest way for everyone to live happily.

Natural Immunity
August 16, 2021 10:08 pm

Multiple studies from Denmark, Israel, Cleveland Clinic and many others show that natural immunity from prior infection is just as durable if not more durable than vaccinated immunity. Why doesn’t the government acknowledge this??

Crazy how RAPIDLY this divided the entire world
August 16, 2021 11:51 pm

Like mammash divided us! No matter who we are….I never thought something can pop up like this to expose such division, fear…

Oy 🙁

Don’t tread on me
August 17, 2021 12:32 am

Out of all the vaccines that humans have taken in the history of our species – Tetanus, small pox, measles, mumps, polio, meningitis, H1N1, TB – we have never before seen or heard of any that said that we had to wear a mask and socially distance even when fully vaccinated, or that we could still contract or spread the virus even when fully vaccinated as easily as the unvaccinated. We have never had to have a shot over and over again for the same thing. We have never been bribed by establishments to take the vaccine in order to… Read more »

שניאור
August 17, 2021 3:20 am

ומרדכי לא יכרע ולא ישתחווה

court
August 17, 2021 8:29 am

I hope this gets brought to court and gets struck down. Otherwise, NY is DONE. This is despicable, they did the same thing with sales tax. They made all businesses their little enforcement agency.

There will always be two sides
August 17, 2021 8:33 am

For all you hotheads who cannot believe what the others are saying, fact is, when it comes to health and vaccines there will always be differences of opinion. Since vaccination is a game of chance. Which are you more afraid of, the illness or the vaccine? The answer will always be subjective, based on personal fears and experiences. So no amount of arguing, name calling of laws will ever change anyone’s opinion, ever! The only thing we can do as a family, a community, is respect each other, support each other’s decisions and understand that it’s ok that others will… Read more »

What is the purpose of getting the vaccine?
August 17, 2021 10:26 am

Dont tell me to go to a movie or something else.

I am asking about the medical reason and reault we should expect.

Its a real question seems most cant even say why. Hence the confusion and now new reason to be divided

How our weddings and bar mitzvahs will be?
August 17, 2021 10:52 am

The law made an exemption for Sunday church potlucks they can gather & eat without vaccinated proof and ID… should we do all our Simhas on Sunday as a potluck too?
Otherwise maybe 🤔 in different state?

Just thinking about my future Simha … and not liking the idea of putting pressure on me as a host to tell people “ don’t come or do come and pay a fine” … I don’t want any police in the Simha hall….

Have your simchah outdoors
Reply to  How our weddings and bar mitzvahs will be?
August 17, 2021 12:35 pm

The “I.D.” requirement, even at restaurants, only applies to indoor venues.
There are nice tent heaters too, made for such events, these days. It IS doable, short of a hurricane or blizzard.
Mazel tov in advance!!!

New segregation of our community
August 17, 2021 10:58 am

New segregation will arose more instability, in our unstable environment.

First Step To Communism
August 23, 2021 6:37 am

If you get the Jab and can still contract and spread Covid, the vaccine is not safe and the furthest thing from effective. I’d be wrong if it weren’t true.

Paul Fishman
August 27, 2021 10:09 am

I took both Pfizer vaccines NOT because it fully stops Covid-19 But to protect my self from the fascist tyranny directed against unvaccinated people. The grace period to electively take the protection has past since July 4. The purpose of forced mandated vaccinations is a smokescreen to prevent more people from willingly take it. This is societies’ and the Government’s condemnation against unvaccinated people. Also the same judgement is being imposed unto the fully vaccinated as well with impose severe mask mandates. Imperialist ruler of Oregon Kate Brown ordered everyone has to wear a mask outside at all times. She… Read more »

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