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Aug 3, 2020
Confusing Complicated CoronaVirus Calculations
I don't think the government makes any necessarily bad decisions about dealing with the CoronaVirus. Confusing decisions, perhaps. Unenforced decisions, perhaps, Contradictory decisions, perhaps. But I would not blame them for bad decisions. There are still, after several months of dealing with it, so many unknowns about the virus and how to beat it. As I have said before, I don't envy anyone responsible for making these decisions. They all trying their best and trying to find the best way to beat the virus and keep it at bay as much as possible - sometimes a decision made isn't as effective as expected, sometimes it is, sometimes the public refuses to cooperate regarding a specific restriction, and sometimes the public cooperates more. And at the same time the government has, and has to have, other considerations to keep in mind as well, such as not destroying the economy any further, allowing people to make a living, etc.
That being said, and perhaps these will go more into the confusing decisions, while the government is trying to get things under control here, they have just approved allowing 17,000 or so foreign yeshiva and seminary students back in to Israel for the upcoming yeshiva year. I am not opposed, but I am confused. Yes, they will be under tight restrictions, and I am sure some yeshivas and seminaries will keep to the rules strictly while others will be more lax about it. Still - the government is having a hard time keeping the virus under control, and now a sudden influx of 17000 foreign students will be added to the mix.
And what happens if, God forbid, some of the foreign students get sick with the virus? Do they have the necessary insurance to get treated here? They likely won't be able to fly home, and their parents won't be able to come here to take care of them - is a process set in how to deal with that? YWN [by now famously] wrote about how difficult this will be because the yeshiva boys need their falafel (yes, taken out of context), though in my day shawarma was more popular than falafel - whether they need their falafel or not, yeshiva boys and girls can always be seen all over Jerusalem (in addition to other cities) - how is that going to change? Will the seminaries provide their students with Shabbos meals now, or will they still send them out to hosts all around the country?
It might very well work, and maybe a proper system is being put in place and the schools will play along. I hope so. And I hope everybody remains or gets healthy.
The other situation that is somewhat confounding is Uman and the Breslavers. I know it is very important to them from a religious perspective. I know it is very important to Ukraine to have the flow of money coming in with the religious tourism. But is it really smart? Ukraine, according to the graphs I saw, have the Covid spread numbers on the rise, though deaths are relatively low and steady right now. First Ukraine said no, and now they are considering allowing several thousand in with some tight restrictions. And then those several thousand people will want to return home, largely to Israel, but to other places as well. So, if Israel also agrees to this, we'll get several thousand more cross contaminated people coming back and mingling...
What will happen if this or that happens? I don't know but I hope someone is planning for different eventualities.
Again, I hope everyone remains healthy, and I understand the need and desire to return to some level of regular behavior and freedoms, yet it still remains complicates and confusing.
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The core reason for this whole plandemic is that the olam is such a golem amd have fallen prey to the propaganda. This is a treatable virus in its first five days; all that needs to be done is for the 'Hydroxychloroquin cocktail to be prescribed by one's doctor and in two days, it is as if he/she never had the virus. IT WORKS and IT'S A FACT'. As long as people remain robots and are so ill informed, then they have you over a barrel. This whole situation is to break down all economy worldwide, take complete control over the populations - think 'global agenda'. Be informed and have emunah in H'.
ReplyDeletemaybe, maybe not. I'd bet that many people wouldnt even get tot he doctor within the first 5 days anyway because people often dont go until they are so sick that they cant push it off any longer.
DeleteLet's be clear. There is not a single prospective, randomized trial that demonstrates any effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating covid-19. Period. At any stage of the disease. With zinc, without zinc, with azithromycin or without. None of us use it anymore. Stop this nonsense.
Deletethere was a study from Henry Ford Hospital Detroit found significant advantage to HCQ though possibly it was not randomized.
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DeleteHey, that Quad CCCC title looks like one of my posts. :-)
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DeleteThe students are young not likely to become very sick. They come mostly from NY where the virus infection rate is pretty low. If they don't come hundreds of rabbis will not get paid. It will be a big monetary loss for the Israeli yeshiva world. (Pell grants etc.)
ReplyDeletea lot come from NY. I dont know about most. either way, I agree, it will be a big economic hit, to the rebbis and staff, along with the general flow of dollars into the economy from many aspects. that is definitely one of the considerations, just like opening businesses and restaurants and everything else.
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