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Dear Crown Heights friends
September 25, 2020 11:38 am

Please keep in mind these statistics are real. Baruch Hashem Crown Heights is not on the list yet but we need to do our part as kol yisrael areivem ze la ze to stay off this list. Very simple, wear a mask in public and especially to SHUL. Do it for your family, friends and neighbors. We must go out of our way to prevent Covid in our community to slow the spread and to keep schools open. Our children need to be in shul but if we as adults do not do our part to stem the spread, we… Read more »

Anonymous
Reply to  Dear Crown Heights friends
September 27, 2020 4:27 pm

If only it were true. But as seen in places with extremely strict lockdown and mask enforcement the virus doesn’t care. Like Israel and Canada and Australia. The only effective solution so far has been the hydroxy and zinc treatment at the first sign of symptoms in high risk patients. And when that is implemented the lockdowns and masks for healthy people become unnecessary. As seen in third world countries such as Haiti and others with widespread use of hydroxy for malaria

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How sad
September 25, 2020 12:18 pm

Why is school non essential?!?!?

Anonymous
Reply to  How sad
September 27, 2020 4:38 pm

It sure is! And kids suffered terribly through the months of lockdown. And for what? The flu has more risk to them than this virus. The virus behaves somewhat like the flu in that it will mutate every year and spikes in the fall. So how to deal with it? Masks/lockdowns are no long term game plan or solution. They were meant originally as a stop gap measure not to overwhelm the hospitals. Vaccines won’t work because the virus changes strains each year.

Berel
September 25, 2020 12:30 pm

Ok last year, I get, but we aren’t going to agree to stop teaching children Torah indefinitely.

Last year, we all kept paying tuition because we understood the matter and wanted to keep supporting the invaluable teachers, but this year it won’t be so simple.

Classes will pool tuition and pay the teachers directly and arrange for them alternative schooling in alternative locations.

If we did it under the Greeks and under Communists Y’S, then we will certainly do it in the USA.

Why are the shuls not doing the basics?
September 25, 2020 12:38 pm

Dear fellow CH residents, Why do we trust our doctors with life and death decisions when CH’V our family members are facing a serious health crisis? We call Dr. Rosen (and our other community doctors) any hour of the day or night to ask him what to do. AND WE LISTEN to him because we understand that he is doing his best to give us the best possible outcome. He and our other doctors are OUR “Rofim Yedidim”. They are giving us their best advice. Let’s listen to them just like we listen when they tell us to do this… Read more »

Anonymous
Reply to  Why are the shuls not doing the basics?
September 27, 2020 4:44 pm

Halevai the doctors had the freedom to give their independent medical opinion! As of now, which I confirmed with a doctor, they are being threatened with fines or worse if they challenge the department of health’s outrageous decisions. The doctors must be really careful now if they don’t want to lose their license. And the department of health has no one holding them accountable for their overreach of power.

Dont test!
September 25, 2020 12:48 pm

Of course everyone should wear a mask to keep themselves and those around them safe. Those who feel symptoms should stay home and quarantine, but should not get tested. If you get tested all you are doing is making it easier for the government to see that the frum areas are the ones that have covid and they will shut schools and businesses down again. So instead, stay home and stop the spread, but don’t get tested.

Berel
Reply to  Dont test!
September 25, 2020 3:09 pm

There is some sense in what you are saying but your conclusion is absolutely and very dangerously incorrect.

The more we know about this illness the more it becomes clear that it is best and most efficaciously treated very early.

Without a test it will be very hard to get the appropriate treatment early.

Don't get tested
Reply to  Berel
September 27, 2020 12:30 am

Young people should not get tested

Anonymous
Reply to  Berel
September 27, 2020 4:51 pm

Shouldn’t the treatment start before severe symptoms set in? Which means before the test results show up? If so, why the need for testing?

Still a little odd
September 25, 2020 2:23 pm

There are no upticks in other areas? Only predominantly Orthodox Jewish ones?
Seems a little fishy to me…..
Well, its just Debasio being his usual self, no surprises here

Berel
Reply to  Still a little odd
September 25, 2020 3:12 pm

I would hazard that we are voluntarily getting tested at a higher rate, because we’ve seen deaths that are close to us in heart and mind and we know that we will be in close proximity with others and don’t want to hurt anybody.

I personally felt a cold possibly coming on and got tested (negative B”H) and I know a couple of others who did the same.

Just wondering...
Reply to  Berel
September 27, 2020 5:01 pm

Anyway to test privately without reporting it to the city?

Maybe the Jewish communities can bypass the city/state tyrants and work directly with the feds to get mobile and faster testing units for our community?

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