{"id":214744,"date":"2020-10-08T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214744"},"modified":"2020-10-12T07:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:19:06","slug":"a-state-within-ny-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214744","title":{"rendered":"A State Within (NY) State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Oct 8, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/statewithinstate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-214745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/statewithinstate-768x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/statewithinstate-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/statewithinstate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/statewithinstate.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Amid a new surge of COVID-19 in New York City\u2019s Orthodox Jewish communities, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo decided to temporarily close public and private schools in several areas with large Orthodox populations.<\/h5>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mSrzYBvm_JQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/h5>\n<h5>Unsurprisingly some Jews are upset.\u00a0 Less surprising is the fact that a few Jewish leaders have pulled the \u2018antisemitic card\u2019 just to make themselves look spectacularly ridiculous, as the numbers aren\u2019t exactly on their side.<\/h5>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/ed38fae1-4db1-4308-8095-399a04010bc1_default\/index.html?videoId=6198187002001\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<h5>The facts are unfortunately undeniable: top government officials, including Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, are alarmed by the sharp rise in C19 Cases in zip codes with large Orthodox Jewish communities in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens and in a couple of nearby counties.<\/h5>\n<h5>The areas that are subject to the new measures represent 7% of the city\u2019s population but have been responsible for about 20% of the new cases in the past four weeks. Orthodox Jewish communities are clearly statistically overrepresented and, at least within the context of the mainstream C19 paradigm, pose a danger to their neighbours as well as themselves.<\/h5>\n<h5>Those who follow Israeli news aren\u2019t surprised by the surge in C19 cases in NY. In the Jewish State Haredi Jews who are 12% of the population are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/40-percent-of-all-coronavirus-patients-are-haredi-ronnie-gamzu-644147\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> responsible for 40%<\/span><\/a> of the C19 cases. In Israel as in NY, Haredi Jews are overrepresented in the C19 statistics. It has been revealed in the last weeks that about every 3rd orthodox Jew in Israel is C19 positive. In the Jewish State, the Haredi population\u00a0 is regarded as the prime cause for Israel becoming the reddest country in the world. Accordingly, Orthodox neighbourhoods and ghettos are subject to close policing measures and are regarded as red zones.<\/h5>\n<h5>The story points at a clear clash of civilisations between Orthodox communities and their neighbours. It seems that some Orthodox communities do not buy into the Covid 19 hysteria. Not only have they implemented a herd immunity philosophy, they have been very effective in putting this dissenting\u00a0paradigm into play. Earlier this week, some young Yeshiva students admitted on <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-lifestyle\/2020_q4\/Article-d4380a2ed1af471027.htm&amp;utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=Share\">Israeli TV News 12<\/a><\/span> that their Yeshivas were operating as hubs for C19 infections. \u201cWe were locked in the Yeshiva all 600 of us, everyone was infected, we all survived,\u201d one Yeshiva boy told the camera.\u00a0 Another Yeshiva student admitted that the philosophy was to spread the disease amongst youngsters while protecting their elders. When an older Orthodox member of the community was challenged by the Israeli reporter about the Orthodox community\u2019s dismissal of the government\u2019s Covid 19 regulations his answer was clear.\u00a0 We live in a \u201cstate within state!\u201d he said.\u00a0What he meant was plain and simple: we follow our own laws and serve our own community interests in accordance with our belief system.<\/h5>\n<h5>I confess that like the Orthodox Jews I am a strong believer in the effectiveness of herd immunity. I believe that a virus that has a 99.998% survival rate is probably safer than any future vaccine. Yet,\u00a0there is a serious problem with the Orthodox implementation of herd immunity. Herd immunity can only work when\u00a0practiced in a controlled and regulated manner within a collective that is responsible and responsive. It,\u00a0 for instance, demands careful measures to protect\u00a0 vulnerable elements within the community (care homes, the elderly,\u00a0 people with health complications etc.).<\/h5>\n<h5>It is possible that part of what made NY into a killing Zone in the spring and what has made Israel into the reddest Covid 19 country in the world is the fact that while the most members of society try to avoid infection and\u00a0 attempt to \u201cflatten the curve,\u201d\u00a0 another persistent segment in society is doing the opposite. It actually works to push towards an exponential surge of the virus. This collision between avoidance and committed spreaders is a recipe for a disaster.<\/h5>\n<h5>Israel is facing such a disaster currently, NY political officials may grasp by now that their reluctance to act in time and restrain the orthodox communities may helped make NYC into a killing zone in the early stages of the pandemic.<\/h5>\n<h5>One may wish to believe that Cuomo and de Blasio weren\u2019t aware of Jewish orthodox\u00a0 \u2018scientific\u2019 experiment but this strains credulity considering the fact that the Orthodox\u2019 herd immunity tactics have\u00a0not exactly been kept secret. On July 9, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency\u00a0 revealed that \u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/ny-ultra-orthodox-are-acting-like-they-have-herd-immunity-could-they-be-right\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">NY ultra-Orthodox are acting like they have herd immunity<\/span>.<\/a> The Jewish outlet wrote that \u201c inside the (orthodox) communities, the overwhelming perception is that most people have had the virus and may now be immune.\u201d One Williamsburg health administrator told the Jewish outlet, \u201cthat\u2019s the feeling, that they\u2019ve had it, everybody they know has had it, and the people they know who haven\u2019t had it have some kind of immunity that we just don\u2019t understand yet.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Back in July, local NY health care providers and administrators say surveys and tests suggest that as many as 70 percent of the community has had COVID-19 and recovered, and that new cases have slowed or stopped entirely in their neighbourhoods, despite a near total return to normal behaviour, including large gatherings.<\/h5>\n<h5>I pointed out in my <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/2020\/9\/28\/light-unto-the-covid\">last article<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that the Orthodox covid-19\u00a0herd immunity model\u00a0 provides us with a compelling case study of the virus and the way it is spread. Unfortunately it also presents us with a window into the dismissal of otherness that is deeply embedded in that specific tribal culture.<\/h5>\n<h5>It would hardly be a problem if orthodox communities were experimenting with herd immunity behind ghetto walls in total segregation\u00a0and then hopefully beat the disease, yet,\u00a0consciously\u00a0infesting their own society with the virus while letting members of their the community using the Subway in NY, or public transport in Jerusalem is actually reckless behaviour with some grave consequences.<\/h5>\n<h5>The Israeli PM allowed it to happen probably because of political reasons. His survival\u00a0 is dependent upon orthodox political support. Netanyahu refrained from addressing the issue for far too long and the consequences are clear. There are voices in Israel that already point at Netanyahu\u2019s Covid failure as a colossal crime that demands a criminal probe. The same applies to Cuomo and de Blasio, their reluctance to act and restrain the recklessness of the Jewish orthodox communities in time is probably one of the reasons that NYC became a killing zone.<\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/2020\/10\/8\/a-state-within-ny-state\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Orthodox Jews I am a strong believer in the effectiveness of herd immunity. 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