Passing along from an email, source has not been vetted:
RETIRED SURGEON Sam Laucks, has this to say about wearing masks:
“OK, here’s my rant about masks:
I have spent the past 39 years working in the field of surgery. For a significant part of that time, I have worn a mask. I have worked with hundreds (probably thousands) of colleagues during those years, who have also worn masks. Not a single one us of became ill, passed out or died from lack of oxygen. Not a single one of us became ill, passed out or died from breathing too much carbon dioxide. Not a single one us of became ill, passed out or died from rebreathing a little of our own exhaled air. Let’s begin here by putting those scare tactics to rest!
(It is true that some people, with advanced lung diseases, may be so fragile that a mask could make their already-tenuous breathing more difficult. If your lungs are that bad, you probably shouldn’t be going out in public at the present time anyway; the consequences if you are exposed to Covid-19 would likely be devastating.)
“But”, you ask, “can’t viruses go right through the mask, because they are so small?” (“Masks keep viruses out just as well as a chain link fence keeps mosquitoes out,” some tell us.) It is true that individual virus particles can pass through the pores of a mask; however, viruses don’t move on their own. They do not fly across the room like a mosquito, wiggle through your mask like a worm, or fly up your nose like a gnat. The virus is essentially nothing more than a tiny blob of genetic material.
Covid-19 travels in a CARRIER – the carrier is a fluid droplet- fluid droplets that you expel when you cough, sneeze, sing, laugh, talk or simply exhale. Most of your fluid droplets will be stopped from entering the air in the room if you are wearing a mask. Wearing a mask is a very efficient way to protect others if you are carrying the virus (even if you don’t know that you are infected). In addition, if someone else’s fluid droplets happen to land on your mask, many of them will not pass through. This gives the wearer some additional protection, too. But, the main reason to wear a mask is to PROTECT OTHERS. Even if you don’t care about yourself, wear your mask to protect your neighbors, co-workers and friends!
A mask is certainly not 100% protective. However, it appears that the severity of Covid-19 infection is at least partially “dose-dependent.” In other words, the more virus particles that enter your body, the sicker you are likely to become. Why not decrease that volume if you can? “What have you got to lose?!”
“But doesn’t a requirement or a request to wear a mask violate my constitutional rights?” You’re also not allowed to go into the grocery store if you are not wearing pants. You can’t yell “fire” in the Produce Department. You’re not allowed to urinate on the floor in the Frozen Food Section. Do you object to those restrictions? Rules, established for the common good, are component of a civilized society.
“But aren’t masks uncomfortable?” Some would say that underwear or shoes can be uncomfortable, but we still wear them. (Actually, being on a ventilator is pretty darned uncomfortable, too!) Are masks really so bad that you can’t tolerate them, even if they will help keep others healthy?
“But won’t people think I’m a snowflake or a wimp if I wear a mask?” I hope you have enough self-confidence to overcome that.
“But won’t I look stupid if I wear a mask?” I’ve decided not to dignify that question with an answer!! 📷
“But I never get sick; I’m not worried.” Well, then, wear a mask for the sake of the rest of us who are not so perfect!
There is good evidence that masks make a real difference in diminishing the transmission of Covid-19. Please, for the sake of others (and for the sake of yourself), wear your mask when in public. It won’t kill you!
P.S. - And, by the way, please be sure that BOTH your nose and mouth are covered!
Recommendations around mask usage are confusing. The science isn't. Evidence shows that masks are extremely effective to slow the coronavirus and may be the best tool available right now to fight it.”
Thank you, Sam Laucks!!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/14/science/coronavirus-transmission-cough-6-feet-ar-ul.html
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UOJ, help! How is it possible that so many people have in gantzen lost their minds??!! Many of our own are acting almost as bad as Antifa, fighting to open everything up & mass congregate to spread the virus like a bunch of roytzchim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSN3pmINhw
it's not just that freak Tischler who has joined anti-vaxx "rabbi" William Handler in trashing the NYC Mayor as a Nazi sleeper cell, like Tischler does in this broadcast
Even Isaac Abraham the Willy askan is doing it
Assemblyman Eichenstein is not only broadcasting commercials ripping the Governor, but the shoyteh is giving out the Governor's phone number & encouraging everyone to bombard him. Just for the criticism, Eichenstein acts as if there are no consequences and as if the Governor doesn't have the memory of an elephant. But to sic the public on him to monn frills during a pandemic? I shudder every time there is a stupid campaign that the Fressers are backing. When it came to cop killer Martin Grossman I could have plotzed from the bizyonos that unzerreh ohn ken seichel morons created when armed with a few phone numbers. Not only they called prosecutors to scream at them that goyim hobben nisht ken recht tze poskenen misa oif Yidden. But they even called the mishpocho of the murdered shoteres to bellow horrific insults at them!
And old Samuel Kaminetzky is no longer issuing admonishments to not make chilul Hashem like he did a year ago when he led the measles charge. Because this time as soon as the shut down orders came, he suddenly started pretending he isn't instigating any law breaking, that farkert, he is all for following the law, even as he keeps sending secret communications to his talmidim to keep operating yeshivos & illegal minyanim under the radar. And he is of course the prime advocate for all this nudnik behavior for camps, etc, that elected officials in various States & even various countries are probably going to vomit if they hear one more peep from Orthodox Jews.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/coronavirus-blog/2020/06/13/students-appear-to-enter-yeshiva-that-should-be-closed
illegally in session on 36th St
all kinds of slimy behavior to conceal being open like blocking views with buses on the sidewalk in front of all the doors
If you thought that leaving your name when calling 311 to report heimishe lowlives illegally opening yeshivos is risky because someone in City government could give your name to the mosdos themselves, you are right.
But don't think that calling Albany is safer!
https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/4/28/21247064/brooklyn-underground-yeshivas-flout-pause-rules-parents-charge
When the Boro Park Stree Cheder illegally reopened, a mother terrified her yingel being forced to attend would catch the virus lodged a complaint with NY State instead of with NYC. NY State still gave her name to Pinny Ringel, the Chassidishe guy who works in de Blasio's office because he was the handpicked insider of the Rebbes who made sure he got that shteller.
Ringel started reaching out to the mother trying to contact her because the State handed over her information to him!
Who would have thought that NY State would pull a Shea Fishman to hand over names of victims who complain? Margo, who loves reading secular newspapers, must be gloating!
A rov tried getting the message to Simcha Felder yesterday that the bnei Torah who are not brainwashed by the Fressers are appalled at his behavior with Tischler. Felder's secretary was snappy & trying to bottle up her hostility while insisting it is "office policy" that no message gets to Felder unless the caller provides his name & they can prove the caller is a constituent who lives in Felder's district. The rov explained that he fits the criteria but does not speak up publicly because the Agudah-Philly have harassed anyone disagreeing with them no matter if all the gedolei Eretz Yisroel are against the Agudah behavior. She insists she doesn't care, no message will be told to Felder. You can bet she rushed to tell Felder as soon as she hung up. The runaround given the rov is just a way for the uncivilized idiots to prolong confronting uncomfortable truths.
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=koGu/y0ygJa1vNrdomVsJA==&system=prod
What have we here? This Agudah Fresser scam is all intertwined as 620 Foster Ave is Torah Umesorah, whose Executive Dreck Zvi Bloom can't seem to manage to keep his nose out of one financial scam after another. He was prior to this convicted in Federal Court of fraud in the Seasons Supermarkets scam & ordered to pay millions of dollars. And does anyone know if the FBI is still looking into his fishy arrangements with the Platinum ponzi scheme?
The judge later ruled this lien against the Fressers is valid & majorly extended it that it's still open now if the Fressers have continued to stiff the victim company.
The above lien was one of many because Agudas Fressers of Shnorrer Park have been dragged back & forth between court & beis din by their own on-again, off-again Fresser, Elly Kleinman, who shreys that he's being stiffed big time on his self-promotion Holocaust Center by his own Fresser kind.
Maybe the Fressers thought he would too embarrassed to sue them after all the unwanted attention he got for his Asiatisher adulterous affairs?
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=fCIIvP9a0EOGctLfr3BGpQ==&system=prod
here is a psak by Dayan Kahn
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=awZRHyvO8voaX8izebszKw==&system=prod
more on the liens here
A few interesting observations ...
Some big names from the Fresser Board Room are copied on the emails.
Wait a minute! Aren't the Fressers constantly giving us condescending reminders that we all answer to them because they are Daas Torah? So then what are the hypocrites doing in arkoyos?
One side hired the lowest of the low gangster Gershon Spiegel. Did one of the Fresser sides in the machlokes intimidate the batei din to let Spiegel inside? I thought he was banned from stepping foot in pretty much any beis din
This is one big Fresser soap opera. Even the presiding Judge, Leon Ruchelsman, is an Agudah Fresser!
https://nypost.com/2020/06/18/nyc-city-hall-tells-cops-to-ignore-playground-break-ins/
While the mayor was saying publicly that he wanted “accountability across the board” for some pols and activists who have taken to breaking into city playgrounds in defiance of his lockdown orders, City Hall was telling cops to take it easy on those who openly flouted his rules, The Post has learned.
The revelation comes as Big Apple playgrounds are now set to reopen next week and two days after a trio of lawmakers cut their way into two Brooklyn playgrounds, an open act of defiance that had no repercussions.
The behind-the-scenes guidance runs contrary to what Mayor Bill de Blasio has said publicly in calls for all New Yorkers to be held to the same standard.
“One of the bellwethers for a fair and just society is whether there is accountability across the board,” Hizzoner declared Wednesday morning when asked about the playground gate-busting. “Whether our officers in uniform or government officials are treated the same way as everyday New Yorkers.”
But one city official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the lack of playground enforcement was just the latest “example of de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth.”
“If the park [enforcement] don’t do anything, it’s because City Hall is telling not to do anything and then City Hall is complaining they aren’t doing anything — it’s disingenuous,” the source said.
“No one is doing anything — because they were told not to do anything.”
Another official confirmed the lax enforcement of the playground shutdown, which was “100 percent coming from the top.”
“City not going to enforce with any real strength … they may issue summonses,” the source said. “They also have finally realized that the more they push back, the bigger of a story it becomes for them.”
On Tuesday, Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, state Sen. Simcha Felder and Councilman Kalman Yeger railed against the city policy and cut the chains to two playgrounds, defying the mayor’s executive order.
As of Wednesday evening, none of the lawmakers had been issued summonses, according to the NYPD.
City Hall did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/some-new-york-city-yeshivas-are-operating-in-the-shadows-631864
As Orthodox lawmakers were brazenly cutting the locks off a New York City playground on Tuesday morning, Orthodox children were settling in for a school day just nine blocks away.
The classes at Yeshiva K’tana Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn were the first held in the school building since mid-March, when New York ordered schools closed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In resuming classes, the elementary school joined a number of yeshivas in operating illegally as the school year comes to a close.
The students had to get themselves there without the transportation provided by the city when schools are open.
“Since I suppose all the boys will be going to day camp this summer, let this be the training ground for it,” Rabbi E. Brieger, a teacher at the school, wrote in a letter to families Monday night.
One article published Tuesday by Yeshiva World News, an Orthodox news site, thanked Floyd, the black man killed in police custody in Minneapolis, for giving people in the community the nerve to defy orders of the mayor and governor and return to yeshivas.
At Yeshiva K’tana Torah Vodaath, Rabbi E. Brieger wrote in a letter to parents on Monday that the school would “respect anyone that wants to wear a mask etc. or that wants distancing.” He also said students could continue to tune in by phone, though he emphasized that that option, provided while schools were closed, “still is not the same as classroom learning.”
And he offered information that he said indicated that children and families would NOT BE AT RISK if students returned to classes. Using a Yiddish word meaning holy, he added, “I personally don’t see why anyone would hold back his son from learning the Heiliga Torah, since for children THE VIRUS IS NOT RELEVANT.”
Brieger noted that a celebration of the year’s learning would take place in the school’s dining room next week.
Who would have to sign off on that YTV cheder decision that's tantamount to bloodshed?
Reisman?
Savitsky?
Lichtenstein?
Fressers on the Board?
Alumni Committee, Yossi Kolko bichlal?
YTV's Eluzer Brieger is one of the many messed up guys who is a touted author / editor with the 3 major frumma publishers. Now he joins Lipa Geldwerth, Leib Pinter & the rest of such uncivilized ferds.
The reckless peasant who is the wrong guy to be safeguarding children should go back to his hillbilly, backwater village in der Karpatten.
His father was Jeno Brieger who learned in Munkatch in the Heim, davened by Sfardishe Shul. I think he was from the very last of the Hungarian hillbillies to get off the boat, coming to Boro Park in 1977.
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