Posted on 09/26/2020 10:54:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Parents of students attending Jewish schools in New York City are being encouraged not to have their children tested for COVID-19 to prevent the schools from being shut down.
On Thursday, this message made the rounds on WhatsApp, a popular messaging platform in Orthodox communities:
“DO NOT test your child for covid,” the message began. “The city has released new guidelines that mandate CLOSURE of an ENTIRE SCHOOL if there are two positive tests in the school.”
It went on to encourage parents to obscure suspected COVID-19 infections among their children. “If your child is sick please keep them home, and indicate that they have a stomach ache or other symptoms not consistent with covid,” it said. “The administration’s hands are tied because of health department guidelines so it is up to the parents to make sure our school remains open. Please pass the word along. DO NOT TEST YOUR CHILD FOR COVID.”
The message comes as COVID-19 cases are on the rise in many Orthodox Jewish communities and flies in the face of public health messaging from doctors, the Mayor’s Office and the Department of Health to test, isolate and trace contacts of confirmed cases to slow the spread. It was not immediately clear who wrote the original message.
The rising case numbers are causing Jewish schools to close or quarantine entire classrooms or grades due to positive COVID tests or exposures.
One large yeshiva in Queens, Darchei Torah, was shut down by the health department last week after at least 13 students tested positive. Magen David, an elementary school in Brooklyn, was instructed by the health department to close Tuesday night and plans to reopen after Sukkot, a Jewish holiday that ends Oct. 11, according to The New York Jewish Week.
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The rascals!
Can't honestly say that these are unanticipated consequences.
GOOD IDEA!! Time to resist the Covid Nazis.
And in some cases, testing for Covid19 is rumored to later cause an infection.
With no symptoms? I am not going to test. Period.
With no symptoms? I am not going to test. Period.
That is what the biggest HMO on the West Coast is doing.
No fever = no tests for same day care procedures and appts.
You temp is taken automatically as you enter the entrance and once you are inside the hospital hallway..
One understandable result of this insanity.
Inevitable. Overreaction with overregulation begets subterfuge.
I have avoided any testing. I don’t want an involuntary quarantine. A false positive could being really difficult and I don’t want to contribute to the hysteria
Why take a test when the results are far from accurate.
The law of unintended consequences.
Keep lowering the COVID thresholds required for closured. Sounds like more bricks with less straw to me.
+1
Same here.
“The People” speak.
False pos for the molecular tests high overall. Then our fuaxchi led fda declared single target pos in early april. Riduculous for those in the know. They should have all been kicked out then.. but we the sheeple mask and pray our government will deliver us from the covid lurkingall around. No host required.
One false positive and the place shuts down.
COVID tests are stupid. We don’t test for the flu like this.
Their credibility is not very high.
But it is all about the agenda. Truth is not the aim.
It is the ComDem Way.
stop testing everywhere. it’s being used as a weapon.
Yes. That is likely a true statement.
Anyone can own a thermometer and easily take their temperature. They should have informed the public of the symptoms of covid19 so they can check for them. If they have a temperature and other symptoms they should go to their doctor.
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