Rabbi Shachter says that they view the virus as a Safeik Sakana, a potential danger and therefore during the present period they would be allowed to wash and use alcohol gel, whereas those who are not so stringent would be forbidden to use disinfectant or wash since during the year they rely on “Hashem preserves the simplehearted” (Tehillim 116:6). In other words one who is flippant and is careless about the other rules cannot say that he needs to wash his hands as protection against the virus. If someone is disregarding the other rules of the CDC, he cannot insist on this one, and washing would remain prohibited.
Did he give one psak for Ivankala & another for everyone else?
ReplyDeleteYeah, he can't wa$h his hands from that fiasco!
ReplyDeleteMoshe Perlstein is still carrying on, making a velt's chilul Hashem with the 800 kids he suddenly showed up with without any warning in Vermont.
ReplyDeleteThe Bennington Banner adds that the Town Attorney is much more skeptical than the Select Board if Perlstein will keep his word. All Perlstein did was smear residents as manufacturing fake complaints even after police used special sound instruments to prove he was blasting music at very high decibels. And then he tries to make the neighbors feel guilty they were mechayev him for no reason a $120,000 AC plus the hefsid from the outdoor tent.
The Town was willing to compromise because they had accidentally filed suit against the wrong corporate entity and would have to go back to the drawing board to penalize him.
https://www.wcax.com/2020/07/24/bennington-summer-camp-strike-deal-over-noise-complaints/
A camp for Orthodox Jewish children operating at 2 locations in Vermont has run into more complaints from local residents. Our Ike Bendavid has an update.
The camp with hundreds of kids from New York & New Jersey rented 2 locations in the state: the Holiday Inn in Rutland & Southern Vermont College in Bennington.
Both communities expressed concern about whether a large group of out-of-staters put local residents at risk of the coronavirus.
In Bennington there are additional complaints about noise.
“We didn’t differentiate between the fake stories & people jumping on the bandwagon and exaggeration of the issue - between both of that we didn’t take the story seriously,” said Moshe Perlstein, camp director.
Perlstein acknowledges the camp’s large gatherings in the evenings, including singing, chanting & megaphones, generated a lot of noise.
The town met with the camp & worked out a resolution - getting an air-conditioning system for the campus gym so they could move inside.
“Putting in an air conditioner system, getting rid of a tent that we spent a lot of money on to show the people in Bennington we care,” Perlstein said.
“We're optimistic the noise complaints filed will be resolved through negotiated agreement,” said Don Campbell, Chair of the Bennington Select Board.
Bennington officials tell me if the mitigations are not successful & the noise continues, they plan to take the camp to court.
How dare this shlock shamass poke fun at a choshuve lawyer such as myself!
ReplyDelete"Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in response to one camp related legal action, “We’ve lost track of the frivolous lawsuits filed against us during this pandemic.”
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — The Salvation Army in Bartlesville shut down its summer camp last week because of potential exposure to coronavirus.
ReplyDeleteSummer camp started in June and was scheduled to end this week, but shut down early after a camper stayed home with a fever and found out their family had been exposed to the virus.
The summer camp was limited to only 20 children this summer due to COVID-19.
Entfer nisht! Mamash kefira tze mafchid zein mentchen azoy!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.texasmonthly.com/news/texas-summer-camp-covid-19/
Texas Kids Got COVID-19 at Summer Camp. Is School Next?
Camp Pine Cove adopted a number of safety precautions to prevent the coronavirus’s spread. It still came.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/27/doctors-fearing-worst-for-mlb-after-marlins-coronavirus-mayhem/
ReplyDeleteR' Shmuel, should I tell the zayde to announce there is a hoyroas shoah chiyuv this season to follow baseball?
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A large Christian summer camp in Arkansas has closed after several campers and staffers tested positive for the coronavirus, state officials said Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteCamp Ozark in Mount Ida had been open since late May. Arkansas Secretary of Health Dr. Nate Smith said the camp had been operating under health measures it developed with the state Department of Health. But after the positive tests, according to Smith, the camp decided to shut down.
Smith did not specify how many campers and staffers tested positive.
The camp, which more than 7,000 children reportedly attend each year, had not returned a request seeking comment Wednesday afternoon.
The camp had been screening campers for illness and operating under more strict sanitation measures this summer, according to its website. But numerous photos posted on the camp's Facebook page show other measures, such as social distancing, may not have been observed. The photos show campers and staffers in close proximity, sometimes hugging each other, and not wearing protective masks.
Arkansas allowed overnight summer camps to open under a long and complex health directive that strongly encourages campers and staff to quarantine for 14 days before going to camp. The directive strongly encourages them to get tested for the virus within four days of coming to camp.
Under the directive, camps must screen staff members and campers for the virus and make sure cabin groups don’t mix as much as possible.
https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/USP_Public-health_final-letter-shutdowns_V2.pdf
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON - Hundreds of public health experts have joined with U.S. PIRG in calling on America’s leaders to shut back down, start over & do it right to deal with uncontrolled spread of novel coronavirus in the United States. They sent a letter to the Trump Administration, Congress & State Governors calling for resuming stay at home restrictions, increasing testing capacity & ramping up production of personal protective equipment.
Signers of the letter include: Angela Rasmussen, PhD, Columbia U Mailman School of Public Health, William Hanage, PhD, Harvard U Chan School of Public Health, Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, Northwestern U, Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, Brown U & Saskia Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, University of Arizona.
“Our decision makers need to hit the reset button,” said Matt Wellington, U.S. PIRG’s Public Health Director. “Continuing on the path we’re on now will result in widespread suffering & death. And for what? Health experts laid out criteria for how to reopen safely. It’s time to listen to them.”
117,000 Americans died of COVID-19 by mid-June. If the U.S. response had been as effective as Germany’s, estimates show America would've had only 36,000 deaths in that period. If the U.S. response had been as effective as South Korea, Australia or Singapore, fewer than 2,000 Americans would've died. In the ensuing 5 weeks, nearly 30,000 more Americans died.
Many states reopened non-essential businesses, loosened shelter-in-place orders too quickly & without meeting key criteria that health experts laid out to reopen safely.