Friday, March 27, 2020

Defying ruthless, deadlocked politics, Gantz sacrifices everything for stability

https://www.timesofisrael.com/defying-ruthless-deadlocked-politics-gantz-sacrifices-everything-for-stability/


The right is now celebrating Netanyahu’s emergence from a year-long three-election marathon as the winner. But as with the right’s premature celebrations on March 3, it may come to regret the new alliance Gantz plans to impose on their leader. The serially underestimated Gantz now seems to have made it his mission to wipe those smiles away.
 

Trump Campaign Threatens Legal Action Of Coronavirus Ad | Morning Joe | MSNBC


Kellyanne humiliated BY FOX NEWS as her defense of Trump backfires ON AIR


Trump questions if New York will actually need 30K ventilators

https://nypost.com/2020/03/26/trump-questions-if-new-york-will-actually-need-30k-ventilators/


“I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” Trump said in a call to Fox News’ “Hannity.”
“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” Trump continued. “You know you go into major hospitals sometimes they’ll have two ventilators and now, all of a sudden, they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'”
 

Influencer reportedly hospitalized with coronavirus after licking toilet

https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/influencer-reportedly-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-after-licking-toilet/

A California social media prankster claims he was hospitalized with the coronavirus — just days after posting a video of himself licking a toilet bowl for a nauseating online challenge.

As basic supplies run perilously short, hospitals need everyone’s help now

https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/as-basic-supplies-run-perilously-short-hospitals-need-everyones-help-now/

It’s even more alarming than charts of rising corona cases: three Mount Sinai West nurses standing in a hospital hallway, wearing black Hefty trash bags over their scrubs. “NO MORE GOWNS IN THE WHOLE HOSPITAL,” one healer captioned the Facebook photo. “NO MORE MASKS AND REUSING THE DISPOSABLE ONES. NURSES FIGURING IT OUT DURING COVID-19 CRISIS.”
 

The Rachel Maddow Show 3/26/20[NEW] | Rachel Maddow MSNBC News March 26, 2020


"Maitav (Army Draft Office) Corona Recklessness"

BS"D

"Maitav (Army Draft Office) Corona Recklessness" 


1 Nissan, 5780 °° March 26, '20


By Binyomin Feinberg


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To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week,  please visit the Adar Update link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z2nuHMNh-CQ3Te2MdV04dmFfkkmQ0TLNKElS9JT6yJc/edit?usp=sharing
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Coronavirus Testing Scammer Alert:

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This just in from NYC government:

"Notify NYC: 

Scammers are calling NYers to set up testing. This is NOT the City. Directly contact your healthcare provider or call 311 for real info."

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Below is an brief exchange with the Israeli Health Ministry. It follows eyewitness reporting on the public health hazard at the scene at the Yom Chiyul (Draft Day) last week, as briefly described in last week's post (Parshas VaYakhel-Pekudei:
https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/03/corona-concerns.html, and https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/03/corona-concerns.html).

The blatant disregard for human life exhibited by the Israeli government and the Army Draft Office, in the midst of the escalating Corona outbreak, was on full display at the Yom Chiyul in Tel HaShomer, by virtue of absence of basic distancing precautions between recruits and family members, who were witnessed congregating in large numbers, and in close proximity, that Tuesday morning.

Moreover, the very fact that the Army Draft Offices insists on remaining open and summoning recruits in the midst of the outbreak constitutes a public health hazard. How many lives have already been endangered by recruits who picked up Corona at the Draft Offices and went home to spread it around, including exposing vulnerable family members? Is that the price to be paid for being summoned for military service?

After a former IDF general (res.) publicly critiqued the Army Corona protocols, it was noticed that the Tel HaShomer Draft Office closed this week. However, the Jerusalem Draft Offices remained open for business, summoning recruits as if they were merrily oblivious to the looming collapse of the healthcare system, R"L, and to the broader societal threat, about which Netanyahu so eloquently grandstands.

The question here is really not so much on the Israeli military and draft authorities, whose policies are most unconnected to Jewish Law, and are not at all representative of the desires, concerns, and attitudes of the Jewish community. Their anti-Torah disregard for the wellbeing and rights of Israeli citizens is not new, and has, in modest measure, been repeatedly covered in previous posts and published articles, primarily regarding their female draft policies.  [Just one recent example: For the Army brass, drafting women clearly takes precedence over national security, even to the extent of leaving southern border security partially contingent of all-female tank* crews, as recently reported by JNS.]

(* that's not a typographical error)

We also don't have much to wonder about Netanyahu, whose inspirational deliveries about national preparedness against Corona are exposed in light of his own military's recklessness. He's sold his soul to the Draft Agenda long ago. It's his faux "rightwing" government that pioneered the escalating draft of even religious girls in recent years, with all of the scandalous denial of human rights that goes along with that, as we've covered for over a year now.

The question we have here is more on the Ministry of Health, which is apparently taking Corona very seriously: why do they allow this nonsense to go on unabated?


1.  My original query to the Ministry of Health was as follows:

"From: Binyomin Feinberg <feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:54 AM
To: דובר‏ <DOVER@MOH.GOV.IL>
Cc: ...
Subject: Question re Corona & IDF

B"H

March 19, '20

Spokesman office

Ministry of Health

P.O.B 1176

Jerusalem 91010

dover@moh.health.gov.il

Tel: 02-5081220/5

Fax: 02-5655965


Dear Spokesman,


Hello, I frequently do contributing to The Jewish Press. I am curious as to why recruitment into the IDF has been continuing despite the Corona epidemic, especially given the primacy of the IDF in maintaining national security in an increasingly unstable world. Do you perhaps have any statement answering that question I could please quote? Thank you in advance,


Binyomin Feinberg

feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com"


2.  Their first reply was:


-------- Original message --------
From: רויטל מימרן
Date:03/19/2020 4:38 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com
Cc: ...
Subject: FW: Question re Corona & IDF

Dear Binyomin Feinberg,

Thank you for your e.mail.
The Ministry of Health is working hand to hand with the IDF.
Questions concerning recruitment into the IDF are under the IDF spokesman's office. Please send your request to them.
Thank you.

revital


3.  My follow up to their reply was:

From: Binyomin Feinberg <feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:39 PM
To: רויטל מימרן
Cc: ...
Subject: RE: FW: Question re Corona & IDF


B"H

Revital,

Thank you kindly for your email.  Whom specifically in the IDF would I contact to get that type of information?

More to the point, my question really is what is the Health Ministry ITSELF doing to ensure that those Israeli recruits - expected to lay down their lives to defend fellow Jews from those who seek to exterminate us all - are adequately protected from contracting and spreading Corona -- in the midst of what PM Netanyahu described as a global pandemic, one over which he's poised to shutdown the country?

Thank you again, in advance, for providing genuine information.

BF


4. Their brief March 22nd reply was:

"Dear Binyomin Feinberg,

As mentioned in my previous e.mail – we are not allowed to answer questions concerning the IDF.

You should reach the IDF spokesman's office.

Best regards,

revital"


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° To reiterate what was posted last week, we encourage all to employ all due caution to avoid contracting or spreading Corona, or spreading misinformation about it.

בכירי הרופאים במכתב לציבור החרדי: "הישמעו להנחיות – מדובר בפיקוח נפש"

https://www.jdn.co.il/breakingnews/1302432/

עשרות רופאים פנו הערב במכתב פתוח לציבור החרדי בו קראו להם להישמע להנחיות משרד הבריאות על רקע התפשטות נגיף הקורונה: "כל יציאה מהבית שלא לצורך חיוני כמוגדר בחוק, מהווה סכנה מיידית וברורה. בהתאם לצו של ונשמרתם מאד לנפשותיכם"



Thursday, March 26, 2020

Copper Destroys Viruses and Bacteria. Why Isn’t It Everywhere?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqkyw/copper-destroys-viruses-and-bacteria-why-isnt-it-everywhere

It could destroy norovirus, MRSA, virulent strains of E. coli, and coronaviruses—including the novel strain currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic.


 

Blue and White splits as unity deal with Likud approaches

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Likud-Blue-and-White-negotiations-intensifying-622426

In a dramatic turn of events, the Blue and White Party, which served as the alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the March 2 election, broke up on Thursday after party head Benny Gantz decided to enter Netanyahu's government.
The three parties that made up Blue and White - Gantz's Israel Resilience, Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid and Moshe Ya'alon's Telem – all went in different directions. Israel Resilience is joining the government, Lapid will head the opposition and Telem will split up, with Ya'alon on the outside and divided.

 

In Israel, a Time to Pray Amid a Health Crisis

32 Economists From Both Major Parties Sign Letter Urging U.S. Not to Open Country Prematurely

https://www.newsweek.com/32-economists-both-major-parties-sign-letter-urging-us-not-open-country-prematurely-1494352


Members of the bipartisan Economic Strategy Group signed a Wednesday letter which said the U.S. must pull together to combat the coronavirus before opening businesses and attempting to restart the economy.
 

Doctors Condemn Young People Having Parties Amid Coronavirus Outbreak: 'This Is Not the Time to Be Stupid'

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-parties-young-people-mass-gatherings-1494209

 
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear expressed his outrage and frustration at how a group of people in their 20s threw a party in defiance of the guidelines prohibiting mass gatherings to help stop the spread of the virus. At least one person who was at the party later tested positive for COVID-19.
"This makes me mad, and it should make you mad," Beshear told a press conference in reference to the party. "There is the power of forgiveness and we will move on and forgive, but there should not be any more of these parties—for any reason."
Beshear said those who attended the party despite being told to social distance themselves from others must have thought they were "indestructible" and that contagion was only a danger to the elderly.
"We are battling for the health, and even the lives, of our parents and our grandparents," Beshear said. "Don't be so calloused to intentionally go to something that can potentially kill other people. We ought to be much better than that."