{"id":214212,"date":"2020-09-28T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214212"},"modified":"2020-10-02T06:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:47:15","slug":"light-unto-the-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214212","title":{"rendered":"Light Unto the Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Sept 28, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The <\/em>New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/span> reported this week that <\/em>\u201cNew York threatens Orthodox Jewish areas with Lockdown over virus.\u201d The Times reports that, facing a worrying spike in coronavirus cases in Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods, New York City health officials began this week carrying out emergency inspections at private Jewish orthodox schools.<\/h5>\n
NY State officials released statistics showing that the positivity rate<\/a><\/span> in some Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods had grown to anywhere from 3 percent to 6 percent, significantly more than the city\u2019s overall rate of between 1 percent and 2 percent. This means that Covid 19 spreads within the Orthodox Jewish community at a rate about 3-6 times higher than other New Yorkers.<\/h5>\n
Those who follow the spread of Covid amongst the Jewish community aren\u2019t surprised by these findings.\u00a0 Back in April the Jewish press admitted<\/a><\/span> that \u201cBritish Jews are overrepresented by a factor of eight in their country\u2019s death toll from COVID-19.\u201d Surely this overrepresentation should have been an alarming bit of information.\u00a0 Yet this fact was hardly covered by British press for reasons I suspect you can guess. The Times of Israel, however, attempted to offer some explanation for the anomaly. The Israeli outlet referenced the failure \u201cto observe social distancing protocols at some Haredi Orthodox synagogues and institutions\u2026People are touching the same surfaces, the same siddurim (prayer books).\u201d<\/h5>\n
The Jewish State that performed very well in limiting the virus in the period from March \u2013May and saw few deaths, is now the reddest country in the world<\/span><\/a>, ahead of all other countries in its Covid 19 infectious rate.\u00a0 Presently\u00a0 the Jewish State identifies between seven to nine thousand new cases a day, a number that is much higher than Britain\u2019s which has a population six times that of Israel.<\/h5>\n
Earlier this week the Jewish State released a demographic study<\/span><\/a> of Covid 19 case distribution within different segments of its population. The data revealed that while in the general population the rate of positive tests has not yet exceeded 10%, among the ultra-Orthodox the percentage of positive tests is no less than 26%. More than a quarter of Israel\u2019s Orthodox Jews tested are \u2018infected.\u2019<\/h5>\n
What is it about Orthodox Jews and corona? This question can be addressed from a theological point of view, why is God tormenting his favourite and most dedicated matzo-balls, turning their society into a covid hub?<\/h5>\n
Of course it is possible that God is acting as he has throughout the Jewish\u00a0 past, and is punishing his chosen children for one reason or another. Orthodox Jews are fatalistic about their fortunes, and\u00a0accept their deity\u2019s master plan for the world. Back in March, at the peak of the Covid 19 crisis\u00a0 an Israeli Rabbi expressed these ideas in the clearest form. \u00a0 In a\u00a0 peculiar video<\/span><\/a> that some may interpret as a parody, the Orthodox Rabbi urged his followers not to worry about the corona virus as \u201cthe benevolent father looks after his children\u201d\u2026 \u201cThe corona,\u201d he said\u00a0 \u201cis for the Goyim not for the people of Israel.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Watch an Israeli Rabbi digs into the relationships between God, Covid 19 and the Goyim https:\/\/youtu.be\/vQGVUrKGG2k<\/a><\/h5>\n