חרדים יצביעו לקונגרס הציוני? הרבנים נגד

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 קראת הכינוס הקרוב של הקונגרס הציוני העולמי הוציאו הגר"מ שטרנבוך וגיסו הגרמ"ד סולוויצ'יק מכתב: "אין להצטרף להסתדרות, מי שילך איתם יישאר איתם בעולם הבא"

Dr James Robb, expert, advice on Coronavirus עצות, מבקי על קורונה

Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of
pathology at the University of California San Diego,
I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on
coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to
demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have
kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple
clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from
different animal sources.

The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable,
due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it
is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.

Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take.
These are the same precautions I currently use
during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:

1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.

2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons,
etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or
use a disposable glove.

3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle
with your hand, unless there is no other way to open
the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.

4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available,
including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery
carts.

5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than
60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you
return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people
have been.

6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's
entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or
touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your
hands.

7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard.
Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on
your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to
a week or more!

What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:

1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping,
using the gasoline pump, and all other outside
activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.

Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing.
This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all
the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week
on average - everything that is associated with
infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The
virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected
unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This
virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it
only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is
through your nose or mouth via your hands or an
infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.

2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent
you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch
our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this
virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask
will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your
nose or mouth - it is only to keep you from touching
your nose or mouth.

3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the
appropriate sizes for your family). The hand
sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be
effective.

4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to
be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other
viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as
directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY
"cold-like" symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the
lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and
nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are
other brands available.

I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably
contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be.
Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no
internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide
efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology
of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge
about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already
been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or
vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within
us. Only symptomatic support is available.

I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially
catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this
email. Good luck to all of us! Jim

James Robb, MD FCAP

No Safe Place

http://www.msnbc.com/specials/migrant-crisis/sanctuary-cities

The ruling had a large-scale ripple effect across the country. All told, there are now 364 counties and 39 cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE, according to data collected by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Police chiefs and sheriffs decided that it was no longer worth opening up their departments to lawsuits in order to simply do ICE a favor.

“This is not a bunch of left-wing radicals. These are sheriffs and police chiefs,” Fife said.

The shift was seldom sold as offering immigrants “sanctuary,” but rather, as a bid for improving public safety. Local cops couldn’t effectively do their jobs if immigrant communities refused, out of fear, to talk to them.

The result is a patchwork of sanctuary-type policies that look nothing like the original religious movement, but have evolved as a way for individual regions to cope with a sprawling and deeply broken federal immigration system. The laws are far from uniform.

 

Trump blames Obama for coronavirus response, then says he has a “hunch” death rate is “false number”

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/05/trump-blames-obama-for-coronavirus-response-then-says-he-has-a-hunch-death-rate-is-false-number/

 An aide to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health issues, told CNN that was untrue. Though the Obama administration proposed giving the FDA more oversight to approve diagnostic tests, Congress never approved it.

 

Trump's false claim blames Obama admin as coronavirus spreads

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/05/trump-false-claim-obama-administration-coronavirus-diagnostic-testing-ebof-vpx.cnn

President Donald Trump sought to lay blame on the Obama administration for slowing down new diagnostic testing, but a lab association said this is not correct

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Trump's claim: Here's the real information

Why It's Not A Time For Trump's Hunches On Coronavirus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Chuck Schumer for comments about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/schumer-roberts-threats-supreme-court/index.html

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement rebuking Chuck Schumer for comments the Senate minority leader made about Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Schumer, speaking at a rally of abortion rights supporters, appeared to threaten Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's two Supreme Court nominees who were confirmed after bruising nomination fights.

"I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," Schumer said, turning to look at the Supreme Court building.

Schumer went on to say, "The bottom line is very simple: we will stand with the American people. We will stand with American women. We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court with right-wing ideologues, that you're gonna be gone in November and you will never be able to do what you're trying to do now, ever, ever again. You hear that over there on the far-right? You're gone in November."

 

Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman said criticism of the New York Democrat's comments are a "deliberate misinterpretation."

Up to 100,000 Israelis in isolation as Israel expands traveler quarantine

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Three-new-cases-of-coronavirus-announced-in-Israel-619680

 “We have to understand, we are in the midst of a global epidemic,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a press conference, “the most dangerous of these epidemics in the last 100 years."

Woman diagnosed with coronavirus in US after a week in Israel

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/276873

Tourist from NY who visited J'lem from February 23-27 diagnosed with the virus. Anyone who was in her proximity asked to enter quarantine.

 

Stock Market Sinks 2.9 Percent After Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rate

https://time.com/5795105/stock-market-coronavirus-updates/

 — Fear and uncertainty continue to control Wall Street, and stocks fell sharply Tuesday after an emergency interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve failed to reassure markets wracked by worries that a fast-spreading virus will cause a recession.

The Dow Jones Industrial average sank 785 points, or 2.9%. It had surged 5% a day earlier on hopes for a broader set of stimulus measures.

 

Why the U.S. Agreement With the Taliban to End the Afghanistan War Is a Bad Deal | Opinion

https://www.newsweek.com/why-us-agreement-taliban-end-afghanistan-war-bad-deal-opinion-1489926

 As currently designed, this deal will completely demoralize the current Afghan government and military by conveying undue legitimacy on the wrong factions within the Taliban that are seeking to set the U.S. up for failure; and it will ultimately be used by the same press that gave platform to the killer Sirajuddin a weapon to attack this administration when the peace plan ultimately falls apart.

Michael Bloomberg Drops Out of 2020 Race — And Backs Joe Biden

https://time.com/5795561/bloomberg-suspends-campaign/

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City Mayor who belatedly upended the 2020 Democratic primary by infusing his campaign with half a billion dollars of his personal fortune, announced Wednesday morning that he was exiting the race and throwing his support behind former Vice President Joe Biden.

 

Michael Bloomberg Drops Out of 2020 Race — And Backs Joe Biden

https://time.com/5795561/bloomberg-suspends-campaign/

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City Mayor who belatedly upended the 2020 Democratic primary by infusing his campaign with half a billion dollars of his personal fortune, announced Wednesday morning that he was exiting the race and throwing his support behind former Vice President Joe Biden.