Posted on 05/08/2020 1:12:25 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told American rabbis on Thursday that synagogues in the US may be able to be open for the Jewish High Holy Days in the fall, but only if certain conditions are met in terms of testing, contact tracing and social distancing.
Speaking during a conference call organized by the Orthodox Union and quoted by Haaretz, Fauci expressed optimism that religious activities could be renewed before the end of the year.
He noted, however, that synagogues would not be able to operate in the same way as prior to the pandemic.
Fauci said that it would be a "good idea" to hold Minyan prayer services once every five days, as opposed to every day, pointing out that he did assume to understand what this would mean from a spiritual standpoint.
He also said he expects the virus to still be around in the fall, perhaps as part of a "second wave" of infection. For that reason, there will still need to be restrictions on mass gatherings and people will have to practice social distancing, he added.
The re-opening of synagogues over the next months could be gradual, continued Fauci, who suggested that synagogues in areas that were hit hard by the virus may need to return to operation later than those in other parts of the country.
He added that members of the population who are more vulnerable to the virus, such as elderly people and people with underlying health conditions, could be the last to join services.
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Gee, thanks Massa! I’m just sitting here waiting for him to announce what else we’re now allowed to do. What a miserable little worm!
I would love to see Trump turn to him and say, “What?! Who the hell do you think you are?! You’ve been wrong about everything, so get outta here, you’re fired!”
Trump’s keeping him around right now because he has to, since he’s got such a long-standing rep, undeserved. Perhaps it’s “keep your enemas closer”. But I have actively disliked Dr. Mini Me from the get-go. Ever since he prematurely and crudely said the mortality rate for covid was 10 times that of the flu, which is simplistic fudging of the real facts.
Yep. Locally the people pushing the lock down are either still employed with no pay cuts or retired. They dont care as it hasnt effected them yet.
Mosques never closed.
Thank you Massa Fauci
PDJT needs to can this little lying bastard
The tracking implant will be delivered via the vaccine, don’t ya know.
Hey Dr. Farce did the mosques close down. Moron!
He’s been wrong on so many other things, how can he be believed on this?
Now who is the moron you Muslim toad
One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...
Amen!!
Of course; I am 7 miles from town and 1,000 feet away from nearest neighbor, so...
What I find interesting is apple & google contact tracing apps. Civilian GPS accuracy is something like 3 meters so that should be as good as we can get with OUR phones right? Social distance is 6 feet. Does apple/google have access to better GPS accuracy on OUR phones than we do?
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