Year: 2020

Corona: Victory for Swedish Hands-Off Policy

Sweden – Number of Covid deaths plummeting even as the number cases rises

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Similar pattern in the United States! Number of deaths declining rapidly.

 

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In case you weren’t aware of this, Sweden refused to go into a lockdown mode. Restaurants remained open, bars remained open, the entire country remained open, all because Swedish authorities decided to let the virus run its course. They expected the country to reach what is known as “herd immunity.” And they succeeded!

At first, coronavirus cases rose quite rapidly, as expected. But even as the number of new cases continued climbing, the number deaths began declining. I don’t know that the proper word is “plummeting,” but as you can see from the graph below, the decline is very pronounced.

“Over the past ten weeks, the number of daily reported COVID-19 cases in Sweden has more than doubled, yet the number of deaths has plummeted,” writes Tony Heller. “The vast majority of deaths in Sweden were the result of nursing homes getting infected.”

“Their strategy has been to get the low risk population exposed so that they can reach herd immunity, so more cases is to be expected.”

Sweden Coronavirus: 67,667 Cases and 5,310 Deaths – Worldometer

“The same pattern is occurring in the US,” says Tony. The number of daily deaths is declining markedly.

United States Coronavirus: 2,681,811 Cases and 128,783 Deaths – Worldometer

The point here is that the number of new cases is meaningless propaganda. Many of those new cases came as a result of more testing, and many more came from what I consider fraudulent reporting.

And, as reader Michael Jenkins correctly points out, “even the death rate reported is, in all likelihood, grossly exaggerated.”

Forget the number of “new cases.” What we need to keep our eyes on is the death rate.

See more from Tony Heller:
https://realclimatescience.com/2020/06/no-correlation-between-covid-cases-and-deaths/

Thanks to Penelope for this link

From Ice Age Now, here.

Of Reflected Honor and Reflected DISHONOR

There is a profusion of posthumous books describing deceased Torah greats as having “led” and the more the merrier. But looking at the state of us, their “followers”, doesn’t this description, in fact, um, not altogether give them honor?

Here are some panegyrics of our Dear Leaders, some approximate, or off the top of my head (I don’t always remember which refers to whom if any):

המנהיג

פוסק הדור

רבן של כל בני הגולה

הקברניט

רבן של ישראל

מופת הדור

אביהן של ישראל

סניגרון של ישראל

עמוד האש לפני המחנה

מנהיג של דור

לשכת הגזית

And so on…

Unlike a local person, see Shabbos 54b:

כל מי שאפשר למחות לאנשי ביתו ולא מיחה נתפס על אנשי ביתו באנשי עירו נתפס על אנשי עירו בכל העולם כולו נתפס על כל העולם כולו, וכו’.

If they get deserved credit, how can they evade deserved blame?

Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin would insist he not be considered the “student” of the Gaon for this reason, among others.

Of course, this would suggest the real point of these books is praising puny us, and the living disciples of these Jews…

PSA: Do You Know Anyone With Personal Holiness Problems?

I mean inappropriate actions, tendencies, pictures, movies, etc.

If you cannot (or will not) get through to them, the successful “Venishmartem” organization will happily contact them for you, instead.

Just call or email the friend’s contact info and some basic information to Venishmartem, and keep praying.

ארגון “ונשמרתם” נלחמת בחוסר המודעות, ומאפשרת יציאה קלה ותמידית מעוונות פגם הברית, העיניים והאינטרנט. להדרכות מוקלטות, ייעוץ אישי, והכוונה פרטנית, התקשרו אלינו: 077-222-222-1. לשאלות נוספות, כתבו לנו: 0772222221M@Gmail.com

ניתן לתרום לארגון בכרטיס אשראי דרך קהילות או נדרים פלוס.

Rabbi Horowitz of ‘Let’s Stay Safe’ – How to Speak to Your Children About Intimate Safety

Rabbi Yakov Horowitz Child Safety/Abuse Prevention Video

Apr 16, 2019

Learn how to speak to your children about child safety/abuse prevention in an effective, research-based manner.

Presented as a public service by The Karasick Child Safety Initiative of The Center for Jewish Family Life/Project YES

From YouTube, here.

What Would Rabbi Avigdor Miller Say About Living in Eretz Yisrael TODAY?

A precious gem from The English-language Kedushas Tzion forum:

Hi everyone.
I just saw this posted on a friend’s Whatsapp status. I’m trying to think of a proper response that would be short and to the point and that will effectively counter the above statement (this friend is a baal tshuva learning in Aish Hatorah, what makes it even more important to try to balance his outlook).
Anyone have suggestions for solid sources or arguments I can use?

(I couldn’t find this as text on Toras Avigdor.)

Avigdor Peretz:

WOW! So according to R’ Avigdor Miller, the gemara is specifically referring to times like our own, when Eretz Yisroel has, B”H, become once again the unquestionable center of Torah!

I don’t know anywhere else in the world where there are several globally recognized batei dinim, and their status is based entirely on the caliber of the dayanim. Not to mention a proliferation of yeshivos and kollelim of all stripes.

And not to mention tremendous and world-recognized talmidei chachomim, roshei yeshivos, admorim, mashgichim, darshonim and mashpi’im. And not to mention the countless other chachomim and tzadikim who are just off the radar, whom you can find in many unobtrusive corners around Eretz Yisroel.

So, if you have to live close to Hashem, close to real Jews, you’re better off being in one of at least tens of communities in Eretz Yisroel.

The point R’ Avigdor Miller zt”l made many years ago WAS JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH. He in no way intended to have it used as an excuse to forsake such an opportunity where you can make progress in Torah, and to live in a place of Torah and kedushah.

I asked someone who moved from something like Boro Park or Williamsburg to Sanhedriya, Yerushalayim (after some of his married kids already settled in Eretz Yisroel) – what have you found here different? This is what he answered me: Back where I came from, there were about one in a thousand people who I could look up to as a role model. Here, it’s ONE IN TEN!

It follows that R’ Avigdor Miller would now conclude that today, Eretz Yisroel is the place for a real Jew to be.

Please keep in mind though, not to bring with you the negative influences of the not-real Jews (and sometimes worse) you might currently be living amongst.

See you here soon!