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Would someone in charge of teaching English in yeshivas please add to the curriculum the differences between buses and busses. The former are motor vehicles holding many people; the latter are expressions of love.
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.
I thought shelach was a clear coating for wood.
ant bungalow colonies are always open. Ants always live in colonies.
Kushner and Trump: Dumb and Dumber.
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.
Bob Grant referred to New York City’s African-American mayor, David Dinkins, as a “washroom attendant.” Is that what we need?
As for Grant’s whereabouts, I believe he died a few years ago.
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 History Buff: If the facts are fake, they are not facts. Does tautology impress you?
As for the show of hands re bits of medical or scientific expertise, the count is up to one.
To the OP: I thought carona was the Spanish word for automobile.
To yitzmo: I did not understand what you posted, as your English is atrocious. So, no, you did not insult me, as far as I know. And by the way, are you a teacher? Really?
Mars rover? International Space Station?
So far, not so good.
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)?
This thread has been open for a while. It appears that Israel is no reclosing schools because the reopening was followed by a spike in coronavirus infections.
That gives us two things to learn from Israel: (1) Even if it looks OK to open up, it might be too soon; and (2) if you open up and corona infection counts spike, close down again.
Confidential to Joseph: Hashem protects Israel. Governments, even the Israeli one, consists of mere humans.
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 did not mean to suggest that none of us know what we are talking about. There are actually a few things I don’t know.
I got a tougher question: If New York governing authorities allow camps to open, what’s your plan?
I don’t know if most rioters are white, but if they are, maybe it’s because they do not fear being beaten by cops.
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.)
So, how many kidders are on this thread, 1 or 2?
To Joseph: I think your tin foil kepah is picking up some bad signals.
To bk613: The US is not done addressing the corona virus, and so it it too soon that the US outside New York did a “not terrible” job” addressing it. And is “not terrible” really the level of quality we should aim for?
To Health: In times like this, there will be many different opinions. But different facts?
And without facts, opinions are meaningless.
To Health: I know only a little about medical science, which is precisely my point. Yes, COVID-19 is new, and physicians and other scientists are just now learning about it. But uncredentialed commenters are taking odd bits of information from wherever they find it and jumping to unwarranted conclusions. That’s not science, that’s a bunch of bubameintsers (probably without the bubbies), and it is a waste of time. Maybe we need a new word: politicianmeintser? kibbitzermeintser? schmendrickmeinster?
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.
Charliehall is right: evolution does fix stupid.
Thanks, mexipal. I am sending my kids out to play in traffic.
“Doing my best” had a very good comment, which was also very polite. Forgive me, but I am going to be blunt: Frumers who don’t take COVID-19 seriously, as well as gentiles who don’t take it seriously, are not particularly smart. It’s that simple (and so are they).
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?
EY locked down very aggressively, and I think Israelis obeyed the locked down orders more thoroughly than those American dopes with confederate flags and AK-47’s. And their leaders have some backbone, and don’t have any stupid ideas like, e.g., maybe bleach will help.
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.)
Re amil zola comment: Here in the Northeast, Glenmorgan is a well-regarded single-malt Scotch whiskey.
Re nOmesorah’s comment about watching television: Best comment of the month.
To Milhouse: Is KoolAid kosher?
General Flynn thought he was guilty when he twice pled guilty.
A recent map showing neighborhoods/zip codes hardest hit in the 5 boros shows Boro Park is hard-hit. The conclusion I jump to is, the virus is anti-semitic.
And I guess the news about coronavirus in the White House is fake news.