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Citing Health Concerns, Some Jewish New Yorkers Push Back Against Proposed Mask Ban
Mother Jones ^ | 6/15/24 | Julia Metraux

Posted on 06/22/2024 8:45:31 AM PDT by DallasBiff

When Rikki Baker Keusch, a disabled New York-based Jewish community organizer, saw that Hochul was seriously thinking about a mask ban, they were livid. Taking Covid precautions has also become the norm in the Jewish community they are a part of in New York City. “We required everyone to test [for Covid] before Seder,” said Baker Keusch, who wears masks to protect themselves from infectious diseases during pro-Palestinian protests. Getting Covid again while at a demonstration would set back “all of the health progress I’ve barely been able to make since my last Covid infection,” Baker Keusch said.

People are far less likely to contract Covid if they wear an effective mask, with duckbill N95 masks being the most effective for preventing infections. Given the drop-off in testing, it is difficult know just how many people in New York have Covid. But data from the state shows that the age groups with the most diagnosed cases are children under one-year-old and adults over 85.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; jews; masks; newyork
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LOL! Mother Jones finds one Jew who wears a mask.

Sometimes I think covidmania is bigger than Beatlemania.

1 posted on 06/22/2024 8:45:31 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Rikki Baker Keusch...

Check out her professional backround.

Looks like Mother Jones failed to mention a few things.

There’s a shocker.


2 posted on 06/22/2024 8:49:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: DallasBiff

These people are completely delusional. If masks are the be all end-all like they claim what others have to wear them and not just them? I’ll answer my own question, because they are out to control the populace. It’s not about health it’s about keeping their foot on your neck


3 posted on 06/22/2024 8:50:29 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: DallasBiff

the irony. i was pretty much run out of NYC for refusing to “mask up.” no exaggeration.


4 posted on 06/22/2024 8:54:44 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: spacejunkie2001

When mask mania was raging in 2020 by Karens, I thought to myself, the Karens are the modern hitler youth.


5 posted on 06/22/2024 8:57:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

6 posted on 06/22/2024 8:58:02 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DallasBiff

Covidiots still trying to affect laws.


7 posted on 06/22/2024 8:58:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DallasBiff
When mask mania was raging in 2020 by Karens, I thought to myself, the Karens are the modern hitler youth.

Obviously, we did not want to catch the original strain from Wuhan.

Two years later, the virus became harmless because the lethality was no longer there as it mutated.

8 posted on 06/22/2024 9:00:16 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Our minister’s wife worked at a hospital. She got a religious exemption so she could avoid the “vaccine.” However, during Zoom meetings, she was the only person required to wear a mask. Yes, alone, in her office. It was just another example that the masks were about control.


9 posted on 06/22/2024 9:02:07 AM PDT by Restless
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To: DallasBiff

Neurosis is a real problem, especially in crowded urban areas.


10 posted on 06/22/2024 9:04:24 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: MinorityRepublican

When the pandemic was “raging”, I was out and about and working in public, never got sick, until October 2022, I caught a bad cold(the first one in 40 years) it was probably covid, I don’t know, and this was after I got 2 Pfizer jabs. I was fine after 2 days.


11 posted on 06/22/2024 9:10:04 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Neurosis of the ‘libber’? 🤔😊👍


12 posted on 06/22/2024 9:11:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

You are absolutely right.


13 posted on 06/22/2024 9:11:38 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: 9YearLurker

Can we just deport the branch covidians from planet earth 🌎🌍🌏?!


14 posted on 06/22/2024 9:13:39 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Indeed. Just look at Commiefornia.


15 posted on 06/22/2024 9:14:26 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Unfortunately, they seem to be on the path of doing themselves in for us.


16 posted on 06/22/2024 9:16:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“When Rikki Baker Keusch, a disabled New York-based Jewish community organizer…who wears masks to protect themselves from infectious diseases during pro-Palestinian protests.”

?!?


17 posted on 06/22/2024 9:16:43 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: DallasBiff

When mask mania was raging in 2020 by Karens, I thought to myself, the Karens are the modern hitler youth.
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I agree 100% and I thought the same thing. They would have loaded the un-vaxed on cattle cars if they could have.

The whole way they dealt with Covid was very Nazi-like.


18 posted on 06/22/2024 9:30:26 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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“ …said Baker Keusch, who wears masks to protect themselves from infectious diseases during pro-Palestinian protests. “

The real reason: to make it harder to identify rioters who commit illegal acts.


19 posted on 06/22/2024 9:38:58 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: DallasBiff

The Hasidic Jews in New York did not abide by any of the COVID protocols. As a result, COVID burned through those communities, and they had full herd immunity within weeks.

And there were doctors serving these communities who were prescribing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as a prophylactic for elderly people before our demon leaders had a chance to make it unavailable.

This enraged our demon leaders, so of course they pointed their fingers at them and said “thanks to the Hasidic Jews ignoring ‘the science’, we’ll never get past COVID”.

As a resident of NYC, I found it amusing that there were COVID testing tents and testing vans set up in all different neighborhoods in all different boros, but not in the Hasidic neighborhoods, where they knew there were no takers for the fear they were selling.


20 posted on 06/22/2024 10:12:28 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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