huju

I thought the right-leaning version of YWN was YWN.

I’m with Frumguy.

To add to what huju said: Nobody should try to fine-tune the guidelines that the medical experts recommend. They recommend masks, but did not make distinctions between those who have have antibodies and those who don’t, or those who are too short to spit in the average face, or so tall that their droplets go into the air and never come down. New York, and the Northeast generally, was hit hard and is recovering steadily. Let’s not press our luck. Yes, I would like to go to minyan, but the first mitzvah is to protect life.

To Syag: a. What is a glimose?

b. My online Merriam-Webster says the plural of bus is buses, but also lists an archaic plural – busses, as a less favored choice.

c. My reference to yeshivas was based on my assumption that most people reading this website were yeshiva-educated. If I were an anti-Semite, I would go to some right-wing websites, many of which support Trump.

d. “Misspellings” refers to words spelled incorrectly. Miss Pellings is the nurse in my doctor’s office.

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Joseph: If you think David Dinkins was a lousy mayor, you are free to say so, with or without reasons. If you do not understand what is wrong with calling an African-American mayor a washroom attendant, you are remarkably … uninformed.

ant bungalow colonies are always open. Ants always live in colonies.

There is a non-medical reason to wear a mask in certain jurisdictions: It is required by law, no matter your health status.

Yes, you need to wear a mask. You may be a carrier, even if your antibodies protect you from infection. The mask protects the rest of us from your possibly infected spit, sneezes, and coughs.

To 2scents: This website is not real life? I never understood it that way, but now that you mention it, that makes a lot of sense. I am surprised the moderators let you reveal their secret. So, how about Torah – real life or not?

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To the OP: I thought carona was the Spanish word for automobile.

Mars rover? International Space Station?

OK, show of hands: How many of you folks who have posted 4 or more comments on this thread have a medical degree or a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a physical science (biology, chemistry, physics, geology)?

To 2scents: If you do not think that cops treat black people harsher than they treat us white folks, you have not been paying attention.

I have had 2 run-ins with cops involving traffic violations. In both cases, I was in the wrong, and in both cases I was treated appropriately. In one case I had a prescription drug in my pocket, which they found when they asked me to empty my pockets. I had no proof of the prescription in my possession, but the cops did not press the issue. In both cases, I was dressed in a suit, tie and trench coat. All this proves nothing, except maybe that I look like such a weenie that I don’t scare cops.

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I got a tougher question: If New York governing authorities allow camps to open, what’s your plan?

As far as I know, I am the only African American on this website, and I must tell you that ctlawyer was right that this is not an sensible or appropriate forum for discussing African American role models. How many commenters have discussed role models face-to-face with African American acquaintences? Show of hands, please. If most of your information comes from Fox News, you likely have no idea of what you are talking about. (My apologies for ending a sentence with a proposition.)

Art Rust, Jr., a sports reporter and radio talk show host, and an African American, was asked by a caller about his role models. His answer was, my mother and father. On his radio show he played the best bumper music on radio, (almost) always by Duke Ellington.

(And for those of you who do not understand my fabulous sense of humor, the second clause of my opening sentence contained a falsehood.)

To Joseph: I think your tin foil kepah is picking up some bad signals.

To Health: In times like this, there will be many different opinions. But different facts?

And without facts, opinions are meaningless.

The medical utility of hydroxychloroquine is well established: works for lupus, works for malaria, dangerous but usually worth the risk for lupus and malaria. It is a shocking indictment of most of the commenters on this news article that there are almost 250 comments discussing a medical issue that is settled. There is no need for further discussion, but that has not stopped us YWN folks from continuing to discuss the medical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for any illnesses other than lupus and malaria.

How about discussing the Salk vaccine for curing hemorrhoids.

Thanks, mexipal. I am sending my kids out to play in traffic.

Vaccines have been around for about 200 years. Anti-Semitismn has been around for more than 2000 years. If a vaccine becomes available for COVID-19, some anti-vaxxers, including some Jewish anti-vaxxers, will refuse it. You can’t fix stupid.

to dayenu: The only safe way to build herd immunity is with a vaccine. Any other method requires members of the “herd” to get sick with the coronavirus. Do you want to volunteer yourself? your kids? Or would you like to volunteer me?

To anonymous Jew: I’ve been tasting my coffee a lot. It’s as good as anything I can get anywhere else, so I am happy to remain in lockdown. And the brisket ….

Joseph: How humane should we be when producing a test?

Comparisons of infection rates and death rates are not meaningful if the samples from different countries do not have the same testing rates. Testing in the US is behind most of the world, and is biased to exclude persons showing no symptoms, and so the US infection rates and death rates appear higher than most other countries. (Given the US limits on testing resources, the bias is a reasonable accommodation to our limited resources.)