NYPD officers were seen in the Crown Heights neighborhood Tuesday evening handing out masks to passersby who weren’t wearing them.
In announcing a testing blitz to take place in emerging coronavirus hotspots in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Tuesday morning that there would be an enforcement blitz, FOX News reported.
Nine ZIP codes in the city are seeing a spike in new COVID-19 cases.
The mayor announced during a Tuesday morning briefing that there will be a lot more community outreach in those areas including hundreds of so-called Trace Corps members and hundreds of additional city agency workers in the neighborhoods.
Patrols will start issuing fines to people who refuse to wear masks even after being offered a free mask and a warning that not wearing it will result in a fine, FOX News reported.
“That will happen aggressively. Clearly, our goal, of course, is to give everyone a free face mask and get them to wear it,” de Blasio said.
The mayor also announced that the city’s health department has ordered non-public schools and child care centers to close if they do not follow the commission’s order on health safeguards.
The city also reported that the COVID-19 test positivity rate topped 3% on Monday. That is the first time it has been that high in months.
The mayor warned that if the situation continues to deteriorate that the city will prohibit all gatherings that are not ‘very small’ and businesses that are deemed ‘nonessential’ will have to close again.
In Crown Heights, police officers were not engaged in handing out tickets as reported. Instead, they were encouraging people to wear masks. “We were not giving tickets,” an NYPD spokesman said.
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It’s called Communism
Believe me, you have no idea what is communism
Just wow. The mayor is sending his personal heavy armed thugs at Jews for not complying with wearing a mask?! Looks like the modern day gestapo! This doesn’t age well…
Are people currently dropping dead in the streets? Are the hospitals getting overrun? What justifies this abuse of power?
Where’s the health emergency? Must be my kids got the sniffles! Quick call the cops…
Communism?
Seriously? I grew in a Communist country, you have no idea what you are talking about.
“his personal heavy armed thugs”?
This is the NYPD not his personal anything. It’s a shame that they have t waste their time handing out masks to people who can’t manage to put them on on their own. It’s a Hillul HaShem.
The numbers are going up. Three middle aged men passed away last Friday night from Covid. No vents, no long stay just like that. What more do you need? This is for our benefit. Unfortunately people dont listen to the directives so this is the next step
That was proven to be fake news. Just plain not true. Just a desire to spread fear in order to gain control. Even if it were true the masks didn’t did not help
Please people, remember DON’T get tested. No reason to give them more fodder to destroy our businesses and shut our shuls and schools. There is nothing they can do if our case numbers don’t go up.
If you’re at high risk of complications from the virus, please ask your Dr to get treated right away from the onset of symptoms and save your life! Hydroxychloriquine and zinc work wonders!
May Hashem protect us from this government and the virus.
Not all people can take this medication especially those with heart issues and some people have cardiac issues and dont even know it. People need to be seen and evaluated before just popping pills.
I’m not Dr. Google. I personally know someone with a heart condition who was prescribed hydroxychloriquine for arthritis long before covid. When asked about risk for the heart the Dr. Said it’s safe… Maybe dosage matters? And low doses are safe for the heart? I don’t know…
I am currently on hydroxychloroquine for my rheumatoid arthritis, and it is considered a very safe drug in general. That being said, I have to get frequent echocardiograms to make sure that my heart is not affected by the drug. It does have a risk of cardiac effects, such as Q-T prolongation. This risk is heightened for people with pre-existing heart conditions. Therefore people should not just be popping pills- they should definitely speak to their doctors about the risk versus the benefit in their particular situation. This is especially since hydroxy is often being given together with azithromycin (Zithromax)… Read more »
Communism is when the government doesn’t allow people to work their own jobs or at their own pay and everyone gets the same amount of money or vouchers. They named it “unemployment”. When you are not allowed to work and the government decides how much money everyone gets that total government overreach!
Except that communism forces everyone to work. If you are free, you get a minimum pay. If you are in prison, you work for free. There is no unemployment in communism, everyone is employed!
I’m sorry, but it’s not called communism. It’s just called Crown Heightsers being reckless! The pandemic is not over, and we need to continue taking precautions against it! While I am not endorsing everything De Blasio does, he is doing the responsible thing by handing out masks!
Whether you agree or disagree with wearing a mask (I hate wearing one!), we have to listen to the rules. We seem to be terrible at that, myself included. Lets not make any chilul Hashems and just do what we are asked.
A rule is not a legitimate rule when selectively enforced.
Instead, in this case, two wrongs make a chillul Hashem!
Just wear your mask already, and fight the selective enforcement SEPARATELY, please.
That will show you are acting in good faith and with sincerity: a double kiddush Hashem. 🙂
Just stop breathing a bit. That’s all we’re asking. What kind of request is that?! Hashem created us with a need to fully inhale and exhale. Masks may not be imposed on anyone. It’s a crime and it’s damaging people’s health
very well expressed,thank you ! it’s not about opinions, at this point it’s about Chillul Hashem.
Not every time someone says boo does it mean you are risking a Chillul Hashem.
There’s a time and place to stand up against tyranny. This is certainly one of them. No need to be sheep
hey if ppl would wear masks they wouldn’t have to start fineing ppl. here in Miami they don’t enforce much in the street but if you shop in a store and don’t have a mask store will get a fine or shut down why cant ppl just fallow rules and not all ways thinking they know better
Again whether you agree or not you don’t have the power to keep the schools and businesses open so just listen!
The schools will be shut even if everyone wore a mask and social distanced as seen elsewhere, because all corona viruses spike in the fall. Don’t fool yourself. The mask is just an excuse to justify the lockdown.
It could mean any number of things and is not clearly showing that you are solely “against tyranny.”
There are MUCH better ways to show you are outraged:
–organize a march just outside Gracie Mansion or City Hall;
–organize a deluge of phone calls to the mayor’s office;
–call a press conference and invite the press.
Or there are other ways to EFFECTIVELY communicate your opposition to tyranny.
But do it all with your mask on, please!
sorry, but this is garbage. ITS AGAINST THE LAW. WE LIVE IN AMERICA NOT A COMMUNIST COUNTRY
Who said??
Now its a new law so we will all have to listen
The mayor cannot override the constitution. The current ‘pandemic’ is a manufactured crisis that can end as soon as they start recommending early treatment of hydroxy and zinc.
You are contagious before symptoms show up. The point is not to affect others. This is what saves lives. Is it not worth it to wear a mask to not give this deadly virus to others? What can be more important….Seems pretty basic and yet so many arguments
Doctors don’t wear masks all day. Just during surgeries.
Doctors may be more physically fit than me. I just know that I can’t wear a mask without gasping for breath.
Watch what you insist on because some people really can’t wear a mask safely
This has been enacted since pesach in Europe, no reason not to do it here as well. It disgusts and surprised me how we do not listen to the rules, Since a major element of our upbringing in Lubavitch is kabolas ol! You Still all have a lot of teshuva to be done!
In Canada the mask lie is being strictly enforced and adhered to but the cases keep rising anyway… Bc masks are not designed to catch a virus and they don’t…
The mask lie is designed to mislead people into believing that they can avoid lockdowns if everyone wears a mask. But I have news for you. We will be locked down regardless. So enjoy whatever freedom you still have left while you can!
And how many in Crown Heights!!!!??????
And how many in ch were murdered in the hospital from negligence or malpractice?
How many were saved with early use of hydroxy?
Don’t think they we’re any deaths in the community because of the virus BH.
I encourage you to inform yourself re the concept of hospital malpractice and neglect before pointing fingers. It’s unfortunate like crazy! So many lives were taken – NOT due to covid bt those other reasons mentioned above.
size of community is completely different
with exposure to constant guests from all over
but even more,
Purim time, pretty much no one from any community in the US, wore masks, because that was before it “hit”. In the many weeks people were very strict.
Did you mean “NOT one Covid death in Montreal”? A lot of people were sick, but as far as I know, the Chabad community didn’t have any covid deaths. The other communities did, however (Outremont, CSL…)
What I don’t understand is why they’re ticketing outside. Regulations in Montreal are if you’re outside, not in a crowd (read: demonstration, riot), you don’t have to wear a mask.
the masks may not catch every virus, however, they do prevent droplets that contain the virus to pass from person to person and thereby decreasing significantly the spread of the virus.
That’s the dogma that’s being repeated. And it doesn’t justify restricting people’s basic freedom to breathe.
Unfortunatly many people don’t wear mask here tol
Dina DeMalchusa Dina
Respect but suspect…
They don’t have our best interest at heart. We know it. They made it absolutely clear. You can stop believing them and following their ‘rules’. Or you will end up r”l like the holocaust
ITS ONE THING A GOY OR A TH EHATING LIBERAL LEFT LISTENING TO THE ANTI-SEMETIC WAYS OF THIS MAYOR, BUT A FRUM YID SHOULD KNOW BETTER. START ACTING LIKE A REAL YID. THIS WHOLE COVID IS A SCAM. ONLY A FEW PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF IT AT THATS ACCORDING TO THE CDC ( ROUGHLY 6-10K) ITS A SCARE TACTIC FROM THE HATING LEFT HOPING THIS WILL DERAIL OUR GREAT PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM WINNING. NOTHING WILL STOP HIM!! HE WINS IN A LANDSLIDE. AND ACCORDING TO EVEN THE LEFT COVID IS OVER NOV 3. SO GROW UP AND TAKE YOUR HEADS… Read more »
this post is misleading and incorrect.
I’m sorry but I think you’re delusional. A scam when great people like Rabbi Dukes, may he live and be well, was in ICU for months? A scam when we lost great people to this cruel virus the world over? A scam when people I know personally were told to come to the hospital to say goodbye to their husbands on more than one occasion bc the doctors didn’t think they’d pull through (BH most of them did but many of them are still unable to go home and are in rehab)? What’s wrong with you? Or were they all… Read more »
Read: hospital malpractice and neglect.
Wake up, sheeple
Many EU countries don’t have mask mandates and the morbidity rates seem to be no worse, and in some cases better, than those with mandatory mask wearing.
England only started with their mask rule in late July or early August. Before then people didn’t have to wear masks in stores. Obviously, stores were able to enforce it on their own, but it wasn’t a law. Get your facts straight.
Somehow they will only find Orthodox Jews to enforce this with. Hmm?
They will find us but will distribute masks 🎭 for gentiles in the city parks … common, we all know it’s because our schools are only ones that operates in person and he targets us…Interesting that protesters were not fined or offered free masks and it was during covid with higher numbers of cases ….
tired… how much is the fine?
Agree
Maybe they should enforce it on the black community
It you look around crown heights, you’ll see that most of the people wearing masks are the blacks and their kids (even little ones) and those who aren’t wearing are the yidden!
Hahaha 😂 I’m sorry to say but when In the beginning lol 😂 when a lot of us were dying in the community
Back in March and April
No black was wearing a mask Trust me
I live with blacks in my building and in my neighborhood.
Only recently they started wearing masks 😷 .
I’m sorry and this is facts!
Nah they will get punched in the nose😂. I’m starting to appreciate my freedom loving neighbors.
Yes, this is correct. We are the only group of people which blatantly and with a lot of chutzpah do not listen, it is disgusting behavior!!!!!
LET THEM START WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. THEN NEXT ITS THE YELLOW STARS
We just know that masks don’t help. Say it together. Masks. Don’t. Help. Masks make me feel sick. It makes me not able to breathe well. It’s not a chutzpah to choose breathing over following a stupid law that everyone knows doesn’t help.
I had the same breathing issue. Buy a mesh mask without a lining from shoehandy on Etsy. The best!
So a mesh mask without a lining will keep everyone safe and keep allllll the germs away. Uh hu. Really now. So it’s all for show as long as it looks like we’re covered up. That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Is logic going out of style?!?!?
Logic was never in style 😉. None of the covid restrictions make any sense. You’re right.
Well we also were singled out for attending a funeral where most wore masks. And then a week later this mayor showed up in solidarity to praise the thousands ‘protesting’ without masks. Clear double standard
We are not chutzpadik. We respectfully disagree and have science to back us up.
Crime is high and no patrol around but for masks they have special units? Ridiculous
That’s the way it is here until we get some representation.
Impossible to get fair representation with the amount of election cheating/fraud going on in NYC. Remember the primaries? Missing candidate on the ballot, workers telling the voters who to vote for, names counted without the ballot ever being filled, etc… I hope the feds get involved
Please make sure they go to bronx harlem ALL NEIGHBORHOODS.
Just coming to jewish neighborhood is not rules it anti semitic and cruel .
And we will not tolerate it.
Which zipcodes?
boro park and far rockaway and midwood and brighton beach and sheepshead bay and williamsburg and kew gardens and gravesend. Can remember them all
What are the specifics? When and where, etc???
where among people who dont live with you you wear a mask
Who exactly will enforce this rule >_< HAHAHA not the NYPD… they ain’t doing what this clown says ….
If only that were true (it isn’t)
Then they do. It’s part of the irrational illness of anti semitism. They want to target the only people around who would not only not attack them but would actually support them just for doing what they were intended to do.
Call the 71st precinct detective squad. They care. Thank them for getting so many guns off the streets recently. Ask them for help against this mayor. Remind them that we had their backs when Mr mayor threw them under the bus at the riots, and ask them if they can have our backs when the mayor wants to destroy our way of life by enforcing this illegal mask mandate on healthy people.
We’d actually have to see, in action, that ‘they care’ (as you word it) first. Way too much of a history of hard facts proving the opposite. As a long time resident in Crown Heights I can personally attest to that.
I wonder who he’ll ask to enforce this—- the NYPD? That means you gotta fund them even more… look who loves this ” oppressive racist system”….dear old Bill himself 😉
A 1-and-a-half minute video tells me nothing. There appears to be solid evidence that some frum neighborhoods, as well as some non-Jewish neighborhoods, are experiencing higher-than-average rates of Covid infection. It’s up to the Jews in those neighborhoods to decide what Hashem wants them to do. I believe the most important mitzvah is to protect life, and the best way to protect life these days is to social-distance and wear masks. Whining about lax enforcement of these sensible rules against non-Jews is silly. Frum Jews must protect themselves and their families. If the city wants to help by reporting higher-than-average… Read more »
Those Jews would rather get treated early with hydroxy for covid, if they ever get it, then wear a diaper on their face forever. It would save many more lives. Do we still live in a free country?
We should wear masks where we can’t social distance- However this policing is known to be targeting the Jewish neighborhoods. There are so many people on the street, of all backgrounds NOT wearing masks. Video crews that were in Crown Heights on Shabbos for hours on Eastern Parkway were sitting all next to each other on a bench, two of them not wearing any masks. How ironic and hypocritical !?! The kaporos protestors descended Motzoei Shabbos, they were so many of them dressed to the nines with surgical protection and what not, as if they were getting ready for a… Read more »
And as he is the community doctor that we all trust, we should follow. A note to remember is outdoors glasses can get fogged up and lead to (especially older) people falling and injuring themselves. So wear a mask indoors when you can’t social distance. It’s really not that hard.
Dr. Rosen said that u should wear a mask I dont know where u got that from, he is not going tell u not to wear a mask
There is absolutely no Scientific Proof, and No Double blind Study was ever done to prove that Masks are at all effective, whatsoever, to prevent Covid-19
No one can show even 1 good study done on Covid-19 to prove that Masks actually are effective in preventing Covid-19
No such study exists.
Masks is only a theory.
And its an unproven theory.
There is also no peer-reviewed randomized double-blind study showing that this hydroxy shmoxy zinc gimmick works. You can’t have it both ways. Either do the science or do the voodoo.
Sorry there is. 75% better outcome rate of covid for people in countries that use the chloriquine family medicine for malaria prevention. See Dr. Zelenko’s, Twitter feed, and Dr. Simone Gold and Dr. James Todaro for the numbers. And watch highly respected Dr. Harvey Risch interview with Mark Levin (who actually let’s him talk) I can’t post links and screen shots here.
All this is anecdotal. Show me real statistcal analysis of actual numbers in a a peer reviewed randomized double blind controlled study. Then we’ll talk. Meanwhile this hydroxy is all voodoo.
There were studies showing that with a mask you get exposed to a much lower viral load so you will get a milder case. It also stops spread of infected particles from someone infected to others
Sorry that makes no sense. Once you are infected your body reproduces the virus so your viral load goes up irrespective to how much you got exposed. The hydroxychloriquine when taken early with zinc allows the zinc to get absorbed in your cells and blocks the virus from multiplying, hence you’re viral load does not go up. People end up in the hospital when their immune response goes crazy (bc of the high viral load) and begins attacking the lung tissue. Which is why it takes a few days and why it’s crucial to treat right away, before the reaction… Read more »
Will these ticket issuers be the same as the ones who target the Jewish neighborhoods for parking tickets? Or will it be other ‘law’ enforcers? Just wondering because seems to me the streets are going to get quite crowded..
And they force us to wear seatbelts too! What chutzpah! What happened to freedom? Who gives them the right to tell me I must wear a seatbelts?! It’s uncomfortable and none of their business. Who asked them to care about my safety?! And they even force me to wear helmets when riding my bicycle! Communist!!!
Issue is, seems like a lot of ch’ers believe in conspiracy theories. Starting to lose a lot of respect for ppl around here
Conspiracy theories? The CDC says that cloth masks DON’T catch harmful particals in smoke from wildfires. The EPA says the size of those harmful particals are 0.4-0.7 microns, which is BIGGER than the size of the virus that the WHO says is only 0.1 micron. Got it? They disprove their own lies…
Which part of the above is a conspiracy?
paper masks are proven more effective than cloth masks
The disclaimer on the box of surgical masks says they don’t protect against covid
Guess they own mask factories
Someone is making a buck off all these masks!
Follow the money!
Masks bring them $$$$$$
As sarcastic as you are, you are somewhat correct. This is. America everyone has the ability to make their own choices
I choose not to wear a seat belt or a mask. Also no helmet on bike. It’s my choice. Don’t force me to do anything. I don’t need to wear clothes on public if I don’t want to. If it bothers you, don’t look!
Masks do not catch virus particles. Got that?
Do you want them to mandate a chain link fence around your yard to solve the city’s mosquito problem because of zika?
It’s the equivalent nonsense.
Does wearing seatbelts stop proper breathing? No. But wearing a mask does. I tried it out myself with an oxymeter. After wearing a mask for thirty minutes, my oxygen saturation was lower. So many people tell me that after wearing a mask they don’t feel well. We’re any studies done to ensure that mask wearing is one thousand percent safe for every single person?! I highly doubt that. Don’t compare
if they cared about our lives they would give us HCQ.
The same hydroxy that the NIH, under Dr. Fauchi in 2005, published a study proving that it effectively treats corona viruses.
I guess they think we are all stupid. But the truth comes out
It has been prove that ROASTED GINGER not only prevents COVID but also cures it. Inflammation is naturally reduced by ginger and roasting makes it more potent. Forget HCQ, just use GINGER. My family goes through pounds of it each week and NOT ONE got COVID. Friends that were sick started using ginger and in a few hours became much better!!! The drug companies don’t want us to know this!!! They wouldn’t be able to sell a vaccine if everyone knew this!!! WELL, NOW YOU KNOW!!!
How many NEW hospitalizations???? Close to none? They are trying to scare us with the test positive “3% uptick” while the hospitals are being empty for months, without patients! Nurses are out of jobs!
Let them send those pocket news reporters to report about the empty hospitals! Let them report how COVID patients are being replaced by violent crime victims with bullet and knife wounds. What a garbage! OUTRAGE!
Looks like shmuel munkes in 749 Eastern parkway is about to rack up a big tab
I hear terms only referring to jews and jew schools and jew neighborhoods and jew synagogues and jew holidays
?!?!?!
well, no mention of churches, no mention of mosques, no mention of chatyas, no mention of agnostic gathering houses, no mention of socialist or communist or democratic or republican or independent gathering houses
“You win stupid prizes”
If you’re not going to listen to the rules, whether you agree or not, then you may just have to suffer the consequences. That’s called life.
Sweet dreams that we are in control of what they plan for us next. They are slowly pushing us to give up more and more of our freedom so they can completely control us. The mask enforcement is just smokes and mirrors for what they plan to force on us next. This has nothing to do with a virus and everything to do with a revolution. They say so themselves! People wake up!
Call 311. Call all your elected officials until they are so tired of hearing from us that they’ll back down.
Except if you’re a violent criminal?
Then back out on the street you go to freely reoffend without a bail fine of course.
Am I the only one bothered by the officers handling the masks with their bare hands? Who knows where they went and what they touched before and I’m supposed to put on a mask they touch with their hands on my face? Irony irony!!
Maybe we should protest then everything is permitted what a sick anti Semitic mayor
seems the pictures show either pamphlets ro masks being given out, but that aside, how does one get a ticket? they ask you your name and address? yankel todros 706 eastern parkway…
Around purim time there was alot of
Yidden that died from covid19 did everyone forget
.
Can you not read?!
No one forgot about the deaths and no one wants to wear pointless face diapers forever. It’s terrible for the environment! Clogging the ocean! Killing the whales! What a shandeh! Where are the environmental freaks when we need them?
People who took hydroxychloriquine and zinc right away didn’t die. And people who religiously wore masks and stayed home, far away from others still caught the virus. That’s the truth.
Our community’s behavior is appalling. I’m disgusted and ashamed.
Yeah ,Masks make some ppl sick and it’s hard to wear. I agree. But how can u say masks dont help? If they didnt the entire country would be sick! Lockdowns are necessary too. As u see when they lift lockdowns and ppl aren’t careful with social distancing and mask in public when close to ppl. Then there is a spike in the virus. We obviously cant live in lockdown forever, but do what u can to social distance and keep healthy. Kinda shocked at how uncareful ppl are at weddings or at the store or in public! Plus if… Read more »
My dear. The numbers of new cases were going way down before the masks. That’s why they needed to think up something more to keep the panic going… Because?
They have an agenda…and it clearly is not about saving lives but controlling them…
In Western Australia we closed the border, had strict rules and no cases by community transmission in over 170 days.
Other states in Australia where rules were not followed resulted in a second wave. Unfortunately many elderly including yidden passed away.
This virus is no hoax. Thousands of yidden have died worldwide and the chutzpah I see in New York and Israel by those who disregard following the rules goes against everything Judaism stands for.
This is a wakeup call .Stop second and third waves of this terrible virus reeking havoc on our communities
but the fact that although many New Yorkers don’t wear masks, they target and say horrific disgusting things about Yidden-and one thing is for sure, they are not targeting us because they love us more than anything.
There will always be something to write about in vile ways about the Yidden. We’re the world’s favorite scapegoat.
Moshiah is coming so would advise them all urgently to do Teshuva about their hatred of Yidden.
How can someone say with a straight face he “KNOWS FOR SURE” that masks
and social distancing don’t help keep the virus down! Who can take acharayus
to say that… as a fact. And what happens if in your sureness – you are a bit wrong? Maybe it does help avoid infections – (a lot or even somewhat?) Isn’t it better to err on the side of caution than be freedom loving and maybe it spreads more? Who wants to spread.
Anyway, having to wear masks is child’s play compared to being forced to take
vaccines
We will be forced to vaccinate regardless. Covid is just the excuse.
Like they already did with the flu shot so kids can go to school.
The more we give in to the ‘rules’ the more power they have to shut our business forever until we starve and are completely dependant on them for food. Now we can still call them out for their lies and double standard. Once we rely on their mercy for food it’s over. They can force us to do whatever
They are giving out masks in allcommunities. In March in Ch we had so many people die from the virus because people did not want to wear a mask and social distance I have breaching problems and ii wear a mask because Dr. Falci and CDC recommends us
to wear a mask
Which Dr Faucci? The first one who said originally that masks do nothing for the virus except make you feel good or the second Dr. Faucci who claimed it works?
I think he is schizophrenic. Or a politician.
Can you say with a straight face that wearing a mask won’t damage my bodily functions? Can you take responsibility if I faint ch “v because of lack of air? No you can’t. Stop playing the guilt trip when all people want to do is be able to breathe freely
The Torah says ונשמרתם מאד לנפשותיכם. Our Chachomim tell us that this includes listening to doctors’ advice. The doctors say wearing a mask reduces the risk of catching and transmitting the virus. So wear a mask! It’s not about politics, antisemitism, communism, or any other excuses people are using as smokescreens to support doing as they wish. We need to have the humility to do our Hishtadlus and trust in Hashem for the outcome. We don’t know why Hashem is putting us through such a difficult Nisayon. We’ll only find out when Moshiach comes; but in the meantime, following the… Read more »
Wow! If you believe in masks, aren’t you suppose to stay home? No potential WITH a mask to catch the virus? The mask is a billion percent virus protected? If the airports would close, the virus would have a less chance to “walk around” and YOU take a trip to US?! Gosh! Not to mention how did rabbi akivas students pass away? there was a plague and NO masks! They did not have respect and love for one another! No masks would have saved them since they did wrong and it was decreed by Hashem! Spirituality comes FIRST, NOT masks!
I don’t believe in masks, I believe in Hashem.
I had a significant reason to travel to the US, and I went with doctor’s approval.
The plague that struck Talmidei Rabi Akiva was a unique punishment for them; it seems that no one other than the Talmidim was affected. Obviously this pandemic is decreed by Hashem as well, but the reasons are unknown to us. Certainly we must increase in our love and respect for each other! However, I don’t see any way that masks and spirituality can be considered mutually exclusive.
I was discussing it with someone and said isn’t it odd that masks and social distance is strongly enforced and imposed. The goyim look upto us! We set the example. the Rebbe said if we do what we’re suppose to, the goyim WILL follow. The fact mask and social distance is here – perhaps we ARE separated from one another and thus Hashem brought the plague like rabbi akivas time… if we improve in our ahavas yisroel the plague wouldn’t have been here as, as well the second beis hamikdosh wouldnt have been destroyed. Think about it, our spiritual actions… Read more »
The CDC does not require wearing a mask outdoors as long as the 6 ft distance is applied. So they’re enforcing something that is not even mandatory by the law??????? I’m so confused!!!! And I can be fined for not complying???
Major news providers have been posting about groups who were way in excess of the limits & not just in NY. A wedding in Maine – not Jewish – was not only violating the limits & social distancing & masks… it caused at least 7 deaths and multiple hefty fines for the venue which was enforced. Closer to home,police broke up a reception in Brooklyn late Friday night (again, not Jewish) of over 300 people ( law limits to 50) and slammed the venue with multiple hefty non negotiable fines. This is effecting a broad range of people. Too bad,… Read more »
At the end of the day, the fact that such patrols have begun in our community, are an indictment on us all. We as chabad chassidim are meant to be lamplighters in all respects and sadly we have failed miserably in being examples in how to deal with this pandemic. Sure, shules and smaller gatherings should go on, but it baffles me that we can’t wear masks and demonstrate a basic level of care for our fellow Jews and New Yorkers, like so many others do. Sad to say it, but the situation is starting to create a chillul hashem.
Look closer at the photographs!!! The police are handing out masks not giving tickets!!! You got to love this age of paranoia and narcissistic emotinalism.
In Central Park (Manhattan) the police ride up and down and warn people about not social distancing and not wearing masks. They have been doing this for months. Everyone in Manhattan is wearing masks. Many, many other cities in the USA and around the world are fining people for not wearing masks. Why does CH think we should be treated any differently? You only have to wear a mask when you can’t social distance. Have you noticed anybody socially distancing on Kingston, or in any of the shuls, or anywhere in CH? In that case, you have to wear a… Read more »
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Hasidic rabbis in Brooklyn promote mask wearing. Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, leader of the Ger Hasidic sect in Israel and America, encouraged his followers in New York to listen to the local community leaders and wear masks in public to avoid the shutdown of yeshivas, according to local news site BoroPark24. The site also posted a photo of Rabbi Mordechai David Unger, leader of the Bobov Hasidic sect, wearing a mask as well as a notice from Rabbi Baruch Meir Yaakov Shochet, head of the Stoliner Hasidic sect, requiring everyone who enters the Stoliner synagogue to wear a mask and maintain social distance.
Then there’s some hope yet.
Wear a mask!
Wear a seatbelt!
Wear a helmet!
And yes, we also must wear pants in public!
Enough with telling us what we must do!
I can wear or nor wear whatever I want!
I can decide not to wear pants too!
Do they give tickets if we don’t wear pants??!!