The Orthodox Jewish Community Ganged Up On The Governor By Suing Him Because He Wanted To Protect You From Yourself - He Knows You Are Careless And Reckless ---- Don't Expect Sympathy!

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that he plans to meet with Orthodox Jewish leaders to address the clusters of COVID-19 in their communities “downstate.”

“I’m going to be meeting with religious leaders of the Orthodox community and local officials,” Cuomo told reporters. “If you look at those clusters and you look at those zip codes, you will see there’s an overlap with large Orthodox Jewish communities. That is a fact. I will be meeting with them to talk about it.”

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“This is a public health concern for their community,” the governor stressed, adding, “It’s also a public health concern for surrounding communities. I’ve said from day one, these public health rules apply to every religion, atheists – it just applies to every citizen of the State of New York, period.”

According to Governor Cuomo, “We have seen hotspots before, but this is probably the largest cluster that we have addressed before, and the clusters are Brooklyn, Orange, Rockland. The activity in the cluster is very different than what’s going on in the rest of the state. That’s actually good news in some ways because you have effectively identified the genesis of the potential growth of the virus. Once you have the information, you aggressively target these clusters. These are embers that are starting to catch fire in dry grass. Send all the firefighting equipment and personnel to those embers and stamp out the embers right away. That’s what this data does. Local governments are the first line of defense and they must respond. Competent government must do compliance and enforcement. A cluster today can be community spread tomorrow.”

According to the NY Daily News, NY State’s worst “cluster” is in the mostly-Satmar town of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, where 19% of the tests Monday came back positive. Two other areas, in Rockland County, had 10% and 9% rates. In some Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods, the rates are around 5%.

NYC Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday cited the clusters of coronavirus in Brooklyn and Queens and vowed that the city will enforce the strict wearing of masks and other steps in those hot spots, which include Gravesend/Homecrest, Midwood, Kew Gardens, Edgemere/Far Rockaway, Borough Park, Bensonhurst/Mapleton, Gerritsen Beach/Homecrest/Sheepshead Bay, and Flatlands/Midwood.

According to the Daily News, the outbreaks in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, as well as other parts of Brooklyn and Queens, have by now pushed NY City’s infection rate to 3.25%, after months of successfully keeping the rate at around 1%.

“This is an inflection point,” Mayor de Blasio said. “We have to take more action at this point and more serious action and we will be escalating with each day depending on what we see happening on the ground.”

The Governor noted that 20 hotspot ZIP codes on Monday reported a 5% positive rate. Areas that have high positive rates will be subject to focused testing efforts including access to rapid testing machines. These ZIP codes include:

REGION	COUNTY	ZIP	% POSITIVE	TESTS	POSITIVES
Mid-Hudson	Orange	10950	18%	211	39
Mid-Hudson	Rockland	10952	10%	154	15
Mid-Hudson	Rockland	10977	8%	330	27
NYC	Kings	11223	7%	347	24
NYC	Queens	11374	5%	151	8
NYC	Queens	11691	4%	608	27
Southern Tier	Broome	13760	4%	163	7
NYC	Kings	11229	4%	299	12
NYC	Kings	11235	4%	366	14
NYC	Kings	11219	4%	455	17
NYC	Kings	11211	4%	329	12
NYC	Kings	11230	4%	482	17
NYC	Kings	11204	3%	272	9
NYC	Kings	11218	3%	417	13
Mid-Hudson	Westchester	10801	3%	137	4
NYC	Richmond	10301	3%	208	6
NYC	Kings	11210	3%	248	7
NYC	Richmond	10306	3%	359	10
NYC	Queens	11432	3%	223	6
NYC	Queens	11370	3%	115	3

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/ny/cuomo-to-meet-orthodox-leaders-on-rapid-spread-of-corona-in-their-communities/2020/09/30/