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One of the most glaring infirmities in this thread is that so many commenters appear to have no scientific education beyond high school, or even middle school. It is in college that students start to learn that “science” is not merely a bundle of facts currently accepted by scientists. It is also a process and philosphy. COVID-19 is a new phenomenon, and scientists (and the rest of us) have a lot to learn about it. And if you don’t understand science, you may misunderstand much of what you read about it.
To Joseph: Where did you get the information that “hundreds” of US and world hospitals are using Dr. Zelenko’s protocol? Did you count them yourself? Did Fox News report it? NewsMax? American Journal of Epidemiology? Belarus Journal of Mishigoss?
And, may I add, I don’t think it’s working.
To Millhose: I stand by my comment. The US president clearly does not understand that Lysol and bleach are not safely ingestible by humans. No research needed.
To show everybody how smart I am.
The relevant question is not whether camps are open. The relevant question is whether the medical and public health experts consider them safe.
Garlic is delicious. Who cares if it is good for coronavirus, social distancing, or anything else.
The expected market for a COVID-19 vaccine is about 8 Billion people. A very low price should cover the currently-expected cost of development.
The Torah has a lot to say about pricing. My limited knowledge says that pricing should be lower than price-gouging.
Trump never snapped. It’s just that he never learned anything after the fourth grade.
His parents must have had those safety locks on the cabinets where they kept the household cleaners.
Re: akuperma’s first comment. Please explain to me, and to the US president, the difference between (i) a stand-up comic, and (ii) the president of the US.
And FYI, bleach tastes terrible, but Lysol is delicious.
To Joseph: A proper, scientific study is not quackery. I don’t know how many hospitals in the US are prescribing and using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, but the ones who are, and are not part of a study, are Daffy.
Anti-vaxxers are wrong and are a threat to the rest of us. They may not know it, but they are extremely selfish.
To coffee addled: You seem to have an extremely narrow definition of “quack medicine.” Yes, hydroxchloroquine is FDA approved for treatment of malaria, and azithromycin is FDA approved as an anti-biotic, but prescribing them to grow hair or cure COVID-19 is quack medicine, or should I say, just Daffy.
Millhouse discovered how to post by trial and error, not by experiment. There is an important difference, which is important to keep in mind when the US president is recommending the ingestion of household cleaners.
OK, OK, I admit it. Joseph correctly recognized that I was proposing to assassinate people.
CTLawyer’s practice of not doing what he cannot afford is an excellent guide to life. Unfortunately, it is widely ignored. IF more frum Jews followed it, I think the yeshiva and kollel populations would be cut in half. I leave it to the Torah experts to tell us whether that would be a good or a bad thing.
Where can I buy syringes to inject myself with Lysol and Clorox? And what’s the bracha to make before doing so? Maybe Shema followed by Kaddish.
I think there is a baboon in the White House.
To SaraZipp: Yeah, I sure miss those seders in the concentration/extermination camps. The mitzvah of Pesach is to sacrifice a lamb and remember that Hashem made us His people. The minhag is to be together with extended family. And the most important mitzvah is to protect life.
It’s a holiday, so a little too much is called for. A sensible serving for a healthy adult is 4-5 oz., so a holiday serving of 8 oz. is plenty.
COVID-19.
I don’t have an answer, but the only consideration is the medical risk to the chosson and kallah. A possibly lethal infection is no way to start a marriage.
Stick to KSBW.
To reform rabbi: You are clearly not a reform rabbi. They write much better than you.
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Re Joseph’s first comment: You must be kidding. There is no law she can be charged with breaking, and her act is surely a form of protected speech, like flag desecration.
And ever since Xerox invented and successfully marketed the plain-paper copier (about 60 years ago), tearing up a copy of just about anything does not mean there are no other copies.
And since Trump wrote it (or had it written for him and he approved it), it is probably a pack of lies.
Joseph: You need some better boo-boos to kiss. That will give you the answer you seek.
To radiolover: So if it’s a labor of love, no license should be required? No civil law respected? My marriage is a labor of love – should I be allowed to hit my wife?
It finally hit me: Bochurim should marry at 18 – 20, but they should marry women 25 – 30, since the kallahs have to support them anyway, and older women generally make more money than younger women. This may also solve the shidduch crisis.
To CTLawyer: I hope that in the presidential election that counts, i.e., the one in November, you will vote for the Democratic nominee. A vote for some third-party candidate is de facto a vote for Trump. I was one of the foolish voters who voted for Anderson in 1980, instead of Carter. I don’t recall whether the Anderson voters deprived Carter of a victory, but I regret now regret not voting for Carter, the president who brokered the peace between Israel and Egypt.
Never throw a boy out from above the 3rd floor.
To gav: Sorry I misunderstood your inquiry. I have not had the surgery, but I suggest you leave your valuables, like wallet, watch, house keys, at home before you check into the hospital.
And the award for best comment goes to: Old Crown Heights.
Is Dubai safer than Williamsburg? And if so, why?
I thought the Corona virus started in central Queens.
I have said this before and I will say it again: Why would anyone want advice from non-medical yentas on this or any other website?
And to southerner: Why would you refer to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia by its local nickname: “chop”? No one outside Philadelphia would understand the reference, and it’s a gruesome name for a hospital. Maybe it would be a good name for a veterinary hospital.
ctlawyer: If Trump is convicted of crimes and sentenced to jail in any jurisdiction of the US, I am sure that Putin will help resettle Trump in Russia.
I never thought I would say this, but … milhouse is right, and I am wrong. There were numberings and chapters before the guys milhouse mentioned.
The chapter and verse numbering in the Pentateuch was established by the Greeks before the time of Hillel. What particularly puzzles me is that we Jews have our own chapterization of the Pentateuch – the parshas. And if we wanted further numbering, why did we not create our own?
Whether it’s snoods or sheitels, the mitzvahs of ahavas yisrael and chesed require us not to be snooty or obnoxious to fellow Jewish women, regardless of what’s on their heads. So the snood or sheitel debate is secondary.
Will Israel have a duly elected prime minister before the US-Iran shooting starts?
To GH: They have alarms in Mar-a-lago?
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