A while back both Biden’s butlers and the CDC announced Corona is one of the top killers of children, or that for children Corona is significantly worse than the flu…
Tom Woods has an episode on this (unchecked).
Some counters, courtesy of Overcoming Bias:
The US had large and successful efforts, kept hidden for many decades, to move the fashion in art and writing away from Soviet styles, toward “modern” US styles.
… the US kept secret for 41 years that it faked its excuse for the Vietnam war, and for 46 years that it spied on citizen phone calls via Project Minaret. KFC has kept its recipe secret for 70 years, and Coca-Cola has kept its secret for 130 years. Venice kept its glass-blowing methods secret for many centuries, and China kept secret its methods of making both silk and porcelain for over a thousand years.
Rabbi Shalom Cohen of Porat Yosef or Rabbi Dovid Cohen of Chevron innocently visits the Kosel some bright morning (of course, יצא באוכלוסא נכנס באוכלוסא ודרש באוכלוסא).
And I approach, asking them kindly to perform Birkas Kohanim for the minyan on Har Habayit.
(And get the interaction videoed.)
Excerpt from Mishpacha:
In September 1956, Rabbi Stolper accepted a position as director of Young Judea’s Long Island Region. Young Judea was a Zionist youth movement, and although its national director at the time was Amram Prero, a reform rabbi, he never interfered with the way Rabbi Stolper ran the region. There were no active Orthodox youth movements on Long Island, so Pinchas’s job was to have Young Judea serve the youth of all the synagogues —Orthodox, Conservative and Reform, which created obvious difficulties.
One major challenge was mixed dancing, which was a routine part of social events for Jewish youth in those days. He knew that if he tried to invoke halachah as the basis of his objections to social dancing, he wouldn’t get anywhere, so instead, he talked about the Zionist spirit of the organization, arguing that the organization should only have chalutz [Israeli style] dancing, which was done in separate circles. The youth commission agreed — on condition that Rabbi Stolper would have to convince the kids. He did. As a result, at a time when almost all Jewish youth groups were holding mixed dances, the religiously neutral Young Judea of Long Island, under Pinchas Stolper, wasn’t.
Not a joke; think about it.