If you are worried about your health you should take steps to safeguard it. You don’t have any right to demand that others circumscribe their lives and activities and economic wellbeing for you, ESPECIALLY to the point of destruction. PC always comes wrapoed in some fake, made up, pumped up moral absolute like this.
I have every right to expect that the State's reasonable rules and regulations in response to a pandemic be respected by all, regardless of their religious faith (or lack of it).
We know the importance of social distancing from Pandemics 101. (Society has been down this road before.) I'm sure that there are no small number of safeguards built into Jewish practices and customs that allow for the practice of the most common-sense creed: "Don't be stupid."
There are FIFTY people who are infected with connections to the attorney in Westchester who commuted to work in NYC; these are friends, family, neighbors, and fellow worshipers in his synagogue. www.cnn.com
(To be clear, I am not pointing the finger at the Westchester attorney; I have no idea what he knew or didn't know when he went to the synagogue or about his business.)
Knowing what we know about the potential for any individual to infect a complete stranger (with the possibility of deadly repercussions), then nobody has any business ignoring a reasonable directive from the civil authorities to avoid these gatherings.
Lawrence Garbuz is certainly not a hasidic Jew. I believe he is nominally Modern Orthodox.
I have every right to expect that the State’s reasonable rules and regulations
Yup. Morover you have the right to take whatever precautions you deem prudent no matter what anyone else thinks of them. The driver of caution for most people is their sense of risk. None of this is in play today. The economy has been shut down to an extent beyond what was done in the past for far more deadly bugs. If we had done what we have done for past bugs you’d be doing what you’re doing and I’d be working. Now we’re all doing what you’re doing without any choice whatsoever.
“Knowing what we know about the potential for any individual to infect a complete stranger (with the possibility of deadly repercussions), then nobody has any business ignoring a reasonable directive from the civil authorities to avoid these gatherings.”
It isn’t just a “gathering”. It’s the High Holy Days for many religions. And too many secular powers are dictating that the religious not gather for a day to celebrate a religious “gathering” that is integral to their religion. We are turning into a nation of Sheeple, letting the “powers that be”, many of whom do not have our best interests at heart, dictate the minutiae of our lives. I for one am thoroughly sick of it.
One day this nightmare destruction of our way of life and our economy is going to come to an abrupt end, and that day is soon if President Trump has something to do with it, and he does. It may very well happen all at once. Does that mean the next day when people gather throughout our Country again, that suddenly all at once, it is all right to once again gather, because that is exactly what is going to happen. Not okay one day, okay the next.
Right now we are all being channeled into the few places that are still open, such as the grocery stores as we must eat, right? So we are herded all together into places like Walmart and the like, where we can all infect each other or catch the virus off of all of the stocked food/supplies on the shelves where the virus can live for hours. What fools we are to think that by just wearing a mask, or avoiding each other like the plague is going to save us all from the virus when their is a multitude of ways one can contract it.
Our Country, just like all the other countries around the world, will have to once again mill about with our fellow man, as no economy can sustain closing down for months on end. Let the virus play itself out, as all of them do, take necessary precautions in your own lives to minimize its effects to you and your loved ones, but for heaven sakes don’t destroy your own Country, cause infinite more pain to your fellow man by destroying livelihoods, causing physical and mental pain to so many, and in the end, life will go on anyhow and we will have to get back to some sense of normalcy.
People die, most of them old and/or with other underlying ailments; you can’t save everyone while destroying even more people in the process. I am right in the category of those most at risk, older, I have co-morbidities (what an awful concept); I’m right in the ballpark of one who if infected could have a very bad go of it. But I refuse to whine, I have absolutely no desire to ruin our Country for the rest of us in order to save my own hide. I’ll take that risk in order that the Country as a whole doesn’t sink into a Great Depression, with all of its attendant problems, both physical and mental.
Good grief folks, stiffen up those spines and stop being led around by the nose by the “alleged” experts such as Fauci and Birx who are Clinton/Obama lovers with an agenda, and a bunch of models that are proven wrong over and over again. While the MSM/Dems/fascists scare the heck out of what is an increasingly willing to be led around by the nose populace. I for one refuse to subscribe further to such submissive cowering. I will fight for our freedom from those that are using the coronavirus as an excuse to terrorize, bully, and misuse their power in order to control and further subjugate us.
This is not the America I know and love. Time to fight back and retrieve our dignity and sanity against those that would destroy our way of life. There are those amongst us that do not have our best interests at heart while they pretend that they do. Practice further self deception at the risk of you and your Country’s peril.