Sunday, March 29, 2020
Which God are you praying to with bloodstained hands?
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/which-god-are-you-praying-to-with-bloodstained-hands/?fbclid=IwAR3CP5AqH2wgt_J5Amf8EYh4veQR2iQTm5c_mb4zySL0b2mYKfmjoLkoADQ
God said to suspend Shabbat to save human life. He said to follow
the laws of our lands. Yet so many claim to believe in Him and defy
those rules, letting the bodies pile up
"Sometimes, When I Come Back From a Coronavirus Call, I Feel Like Going Into One of the House Minyanim With a Baseball Bat.”
Dear Friends:
"Sometimes,
When I Come Back From a Coronavirus Call, I Feel Like Going Into One of
the House Minyanim With a Baseball Bat.” (The verbatim words of a kind,
supreme mentch who has been serving our community in Hatzolah for over
30 years)
Hatzalah
is one of the Crown Jewels of Jewish communal life. And the Coronavirus
is placing an enormous stress on the heroic volunteers, their family
members, and indeed the organization itself.
Since
I started writing about the danger and evil of “House Minyanim,” over a
dozen Hatzalah members contacted me. Every single one thanked me for
speaking out, and most said that I was TOO SOFT in my writings.
The
Hatzalah member quoted above, told me that people who are doing house
minyanim are “shofchei damim/murderers” and, “It honestly makes me feel
like it’s “Pinchas time,” (who killed someone committing a cardinal
sin).
I certainly don’t fault this holy person from expressing himself like that. We are to blame that he feels like that.
My
dear friends, if we do not step forward, start speaking up in person,
start yelling at the shofchei damim who are endangering the tzadikim of
Hatzalah and all of us, start telling the institutions who are winking
at this behavior or worse that we will never support them financially
for the rest of our lives, start reporting gatherings to the police, we
just might call Hatzolah when we need it in the days and weeks to come,
and find out that they don’t have enough healthy members who are willing
and able to go on these calls.
Be well and Gut Shabbos/Shabbat Shalom
Yakov
P.S. After I posted these lines
above on my social media this morning, a friend sent me the letter below
from Hatzolah of Union City, NJ, notifying that they are temporarily
suspending operations. Full Disclosure: I did not get the chance to
verify the letter myself, which I usually do, but I got it from a very
responsible person who said it was legitimate.
שאננות חרדית להרג וטבח // ב. שגב
https://www.kikar.co.il/353409.html
צפיתי במאות צעירים שבאו לטעון נשק ביולוגי(!), למלא מחסניות על אף שאינם חיילים בשירות חס וחלילה. בשובם הביתה הם הסתכנו בפליטת כדור ישיר באח הקטן, בהוריהם או ברעיה שלהם
Hundreds of Israeli ultra-Orthodox attend funeral, defying virus orders
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkicV36IU#autoplay
Hundreds participated in the funeral of a leader of an extreme ultra-Orthodox community who passed away late Saturday in the predominately religious city in central Israel.
Some local residents were outraged by the lack of police response to the incident and called the participants of the funeral as "murderers."
Police claim the mourners observed the restrictions during the proceedings, but pictures obtained by Ynet show that was not the case.
Fact-checking whether Biden called Trump ‘xenophobic’ for restrictions on travel from China
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/27/donald-trump/fact-checking-whether-biden-called-trump-xenophobi/
Amid criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus
pandemic, President Donald Trump routinely flags one action as efficient
and bold: restricting travel from China into the United States.
Trump has said he instituted a travel ban against everyone’s wishes
and that "nobody," not even doctors, wanted him to restrict travel. But
"probably tens of thousands" of people would be dead now if he hadn’t
done so, he claimed on Fox News March 24.
At the same time, he’s claimed that former Vice President Joe Biden, a
contender for the Democratic nomination for president, called him
racist and xenophobic for restricting entry from China.
"I had Biden calling me xenophobic," Trump said
on Sean Hannity’s Fox News prime-time show March 26. "He called me a
racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop
people from China coming in."
CDC issues travel advisory for New York tri-state area after coronavirus kills more than 2,000
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/28/health/us-coronavirus-weekend-saturday/index.html
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been placed under a 14-day travel advisory in the latest effort by United States officials to slow down the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus.
More
than 121,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in the US and more
than half are in those states, according to CNN's tally of cases
reported by health officials.
The
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the new travel
advisory Saturday night, urging people in those states to "refrain from
non-essential domestic travel" after President Donald Trump announced on Twitter he had asked for it.
The
CDC said this advisory does not apply to employees of critical
infrastructure industries, including but not limited to trucking, public
health professionals, financial services and food supply.
One nation, under coronavirus: How two weeks changed America
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/28/politics/social-distancing-us-coronavirus-15-days-charts/index.html
Early next week, those 15 days will be up. Trump has said he wants to ease restrictions on the public and start opening up the country, against the advice of public health authorities.
The disease is still spreading,
with thousands of new cases and deaths despite the efforts to "flatten
the curve." The toll of social distancing can be measured in millions of
new jobless claims, a $2 trillion stimulus bill, and a modest bump to Trump's approval ratings.
Here's a breakdown of the numbers that defined these two unprecedented weeks in America.
Trump Adviser Claims President Was First Leader to Restrict Travel From China Due to Coronavirus, But North Korea and Italy Did Earlier
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-adviser-claims-president-was-first-leader-restrict-travel-china-due-coronavirus-north-1494559
Trump actually announced the travel restriction on January 31, and they did not take effect until February 2 at 5 p.m. EST. Meanwhile, North Korea had blocked all foreign visitors from entering the country on January 22 over coronavirus concerns. Italy banned all flights from China on January 31.
Trump's travel restrictions were also much less stringent than those
put in place by Italy and North Korea. The president's executive action
barred foreign nationals that had traveled to China in the last two
weeks, with 11 exceptions – including for citizens, their close family
members and permanent residents. Those allowed to enter the U.S. after
traveling to China faced additional screening measures and in some cases
were asked to quarantine. China's Special Administrative Regions of
Hong Kong and Macau were not included in the travel ban.
Trump: NBC Called Me Racist for Banning Travel from China
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/trump-nbc-called-me-racist-banning-travel-china
During a White House press briefing with the coronavirus task force, NBC
News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker asked why the
administration wasn’t more prepared to deal with the virus by providing
more testing supplies.
“We were very prepared. The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media. The media has not treated it fairly. I will tell you how prepared I was, I called for a ban from people coming in from China long before anybody thought it was -- in fact, it was your network, I believe they called me a racist because I did that,” Trump said.
“We were very prepared. The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media. The media has not treated it fairly. I will tell you how prepared I was, I called for a ban from people coming in from China long before anybody thought it was -- in fact, it was your network, I believe they called me a racist because I did that,” Trump said.
Trump brags about his China travel ban. Health experts say it’s had little effect
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-26/trump-coronavirus-china-claims
Trump has also overstated Democrats’ response to the travel ban,
accusing Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Joe
Biden, the putative Democratic presidential nominee, of opposing it.
Neither one did so, although Biden blasted Trump more broadly for what
he called a record of “xenophobia and hysteria.”
Washington is justified in criticizing Beijing for covering up the
early stages of the outbreak by concealing reports of the virus and
detaining doctors who sounded early alarms, according to China experts.
But the mounting propaganda battle threatens to hamper cooperation at a
critical moment.
“We should be cooperating at a time when China
has learned a lot about this virus, and instead we’re engaging in this
name-calling,” said Stephen A. Orlins, president of the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a nongovernmental group.
“The
nationalism it’s stoked in China is terrible,” he added. “There are
people in China who want to send masks and equipment to the rest of the
world, but they’d rather send it to the [European Union] than the U.S.
at this point.”
Domestic violence 'epidemic' in the wake of COVID-19
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/277940
In the UK, MPs have suggested giving police special authority to
evict individuals for committing acts of violence against other family
members and allowing courts to withdraw court fees for protection
orders.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Here's how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/28/media/information-coronavirus-reliable-sources/index.html
Reminder: Some Americans "still think this is a media hoax"
Reminder: Some Americans "still think this is a media hoax"
Brian
Stelter writes: CNN contributor and WIRED writer Garrett Graff, who
recently published an oral history of 9/11, is working on a week-by-week
"Covid Spring" oral history for WIRED. The first two installments are
out now. Graff told me he was struck by "the number of people" who took
Trump seriously when the president was "downplaying this threat for the
first chunk of this year." Even now, he said, some people "still think
this is a media hoax that is playing out..."
Five of Donald Trump's most misleading coronavirus claims
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-misleading-claims
As US deaths rise, the president seems unable to grasp the severity
of the problem – and he’s made multiple false claims along the way
Pelosi not invited by Trump to White House coronavirus relief bill's signing
A White House official confirmed to The Hill that no
Democrats were invited to the bill-signing event. But in the Oval Office
ceremony, Trump — flanked by top Cabinet members, aides and GOP
lawmakers — heaped praise on bipartisan negotiators.
Haredi communities urged to ‘wake up’ as infections in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem soar
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ultra-orthodox-communities-urged-to-wake-up-as-virus-infections-soar/
Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein, himself
currently quarantined for fear of exposure, urged residents Friday to
“wake up!” He said the city was seeing the highest infection rate in the
country, with “the forecast far more frightening.” Rubinstein called on
the public to “stop with the wise-guy minyans [quorum of 10
Jewish adults required for prayer] of more than 10, keep your distances,
and stop the crowding and congestion at supermarkets. Just stay at home
and be careful, this is dangerous.”
The US hits a grim new record as Trump continues to preach optimism
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/28/politics/what-matters-march-27/index.html\\\
The US is now the world leader in coronavirus infections, with more than 100,000 as of Friday. That includes more than 25,000 in New York City, where hospitals are already overwhelmed.
Yet
it is impossible to reconcile the messages being blasted to the country
on competing platforms by President Donald Trump, on the one hand, and
by the nation's top infectious disease doctor, on the other.
Friday, March 27, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s inaccurate boasts on China travel ban
https://apnews.com/0dc271ad7f7917374a5a0cfb49273783
TRUMP: “Everybody
was against it. Almost everybody, I would say, was just absolutely
against it. ... I made a decision to close off to China that was weeks
early. ... And I must say, doctors — nobody wanted to make that decision
at the time.” — Fox News virtual town hall Tuesday.
TRUMP: “I’ll tell you how prepared I was, I called for a ban.” — news briefing on March 19.
THE
FACTS: His decision was far from solo nor was it made over opposition
from health experts, as the White House coronavirus task force makes
clear. His decision followed a consensus by his public health advisers
that the restrictions should take place.
Health
and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who was coordinator of the task
force at the time and announced the travel restrictions, said Trump
made the decision in late January after accepting the “uniform
recommendation of the career public health officials here at HHS.”
While
the World Health Organization did advise against the overuse of travel
restrictions, Azar told reporters in February that his department’s
career health officials had made a “considered recommendation, which I
and the president adopted” in a bid to slow spread of the virus.
Most major airlines had already suspended flights
to China prior to the announcement on Jan. 31, following the lead of
several major international carriers that had stopped due to the
coronavirus outbreak. Delta, American and United cited a sharp drop in
demand for the flights, and an earlier State Department advisory told
Americans not to travel to China because of the outbreak.
___
TRUMP: “And if we didn’t do that, thousands and thousands of people would have died.” — news briefing Wednesday.
THE
FACTS: The impact hasn’t been quantified. While Dr. Anthony Fauci of
the National Institutes of Health has praised the travel restrictions on
China for slowing the virus, it’s not known how big an impact they had
or if “thousands and thousands” of lives were saved.
There were plenty of gaps in containment.
Trump’s
order did not fully “close” the U.S. off to China, as he asserts. It
temporarily barred entry by foreign nationals who had traveled in China
within the previous 14 days, with exceptions for the immediate family of
U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Americans returning from China
were allowed back after enhanced screening at select ports of entry and
for 14 days afterward. But U.S. scientists say screenings can miss
people who don’t yet show symptoms of COVID-19; while symptoms often
appear within five or six days of exposure, the incubation period is 14
days.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel-restrictions/
Although Democratic leaders and Democratic presidential candidates have been highly critical of Trump’s response to the coronavirus, we couldn’t find any examples of them directly and clearly criticizing the travel restrictions.
Although Democratic leaders and Democratic presidential candidates have been highly critical of Trump’s response to the coronavirus, we couldn’t find any examples of them directly and clearly criticizing the travel restrictions.
Fox News Poll March 21-24, 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-march-21-24-2020
Fox News Poll: Complete Mar... by Fox News on Scribd
- More Democrats than Republicans are concerned about the virus spreading nationally and about personally catching it.
Approval of Trump’s overall job performance is up one point since
February to 48 percent, while 51 percent disapprove. That puts him
underwater by 3 points. Last month, his rating was 47 approve-52
disapprove (-5). His best marks were in February 2017, when he had a
net positive rating by one point (48-47).
Fox News Poll: Complete Mar... by Fox News on Scribd
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 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.”
"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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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.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
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"
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.
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.
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"
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"
~~~
° 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.
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.
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."
James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the pandemic fight
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/26/tech/dyson-ventilators-coronavirus/index.html
"This new device can be manufactured
quickly, efficiently and at volume," Dyson added, saying that the new
ventilator has been designed to "address the specific needs" of
coronavirus patients.
A
spokesperson for the company, which is best known for its vacuum
cleaners and hand dryers, said the ventilators would be ready by early
April. Dyson, who has wealth worth $10 billion according to Bloomberg, wrote in his letter that he would also donate 5,000 units to the international effort to tackle the pandemic.
The Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing an Anxiety Pandemic
https://time.com/5808278/coronavirus-anxiety/
“The worry becomes, ‘How do I pay my bills? What if I lose my job?
What if I lose my car?'” McGrath says. “Anxiety disorders are based on
two words: ‘What if,’ followed by the worst scenario your brain can
devise.”
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