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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1141 on: January 15, 2021, 09:58:34 AM »
“I was bored, so I put a humidifier and a dehumidifier in a room so they could fight it out”

COVID-19 lockdown activity. We'll have it in mind for next Chol Hamed trip.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1142 on: January 17, 2021, 12:53:55 AM »
India hopes to vaccinate 300m people by June:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/world/india-covid-vaccine.html

Their locally-developed vaccine has EUA but efficacy hasn’t been established.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1143 on: January 18, 2021, 06:44:56 PM »

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״וזה כלל גדול: שישנא אדם כל דבר שקר. וכל מה שיוסיף שנאה לדרכי השקר – יוסיף אהבה לתורה.״ - אורחות צדיקים

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1147 on: January 25, 2021, 09:16:05 AM »
Life isn't about checking the boxes. Nobody cares.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1148 on: January 25, 2021, 09:22:28 AM »
TLDR:
B117 (and possibly other mutations) = bad
We're screwed
Ain lanu al mi l'hishaen ela al Avinu Shebashamayim.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1149 on: January 25, 2021, 09:28:00 AM »
Ain lanu al mi l'hishaen ela al Avinu Shebashamayim.
Bingo
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1150 on: January 25, 2021, 10:03:52 AM »
TLDR:
B117 (and possibly other mutations) = bad
We're screwed

It remains to be seen what B117, L452R etc will do to populations that reach herd immunity (the real type) through infection of earlier doses and/or mRNA vaccination. I’m not too trusting of some of the other vaccines, the 50% efficacy threshold that’s acceptable in other circumstances might not suffice against this enemy.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1151 on: January 25, 2021, 10:06:07 AM »
Ain lanu al mi l'hishaen ela al Avinu Shebashamayim.

COVID-19 will end once the world acknowledges this.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1152 on: January 25, 2021, 10:09:01 AM »
COVID-19 will end once the world acknowledges this.

Please explain how this will manifest within nature?
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1153 on: January 25, 2021, 10:27:14 AM »
Please explain how this will manifest within nature?

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1154 on: January 25, 2021, 10:34:56 AM »
א-ל-ה-י-ם בגימטריא הטבע

Please explain how the natural order of how the pandemic disappears the minute we surrender to Hashem. In scientific terms, not religious terms.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1155 on: January 25, 2021, 11:39:33 AM »
Please explain how the natural order of how the pandemic disappears the minute we surrender to Hashem. In scientific terms, not religious terms.

The problem is that the entire world has been trying (unsuccessfully IMO) to understand this virus scientifically for a year already but there are still so many questions and unknowns and more keep cropping up as we bumble along. If I understand his point correctly, since scientific answers seem elusive our only option is to realize that G-d is totally in charge - the same way He brought the virus upon us (seemingly out of pretty much nowhere but introduced within a natural process), the same way He can remove it from within our midst in a natural way.

Klal Yisrael is nowhere close to believing that, let alone the rest of the world.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1156 on: January 25, 2021, 11:44:29 AM »
The problem is that the entire world has been trying (unsuccessfully IMO) to understand this virus scientifically for a year already but there are still so many questions and unknowns and more keep cropping up as we bumble along. If I understand his point correctly, since scientific answers seem elusive our only option is to realize that G-d is totally in charge - the same way He brought the virus upon us (seemingly out of pretty much nowhere but introduced within a natural process), the same way He can remove it from within our midst in a natural way.

Klal Yisrael is nowhere close to believing that, let alone the rest of the world.

I don't understand how these two things, faith and science, are somehow mutually exclusive. While you're correct that science can't quash the pandemic in a heartbeat, we have learned a lot and come a long way in this past year, and will continue to learn more. Humility and faith are important but I'm not sure how you can suggest they somehow displace science. So long as Moshiach hasn't arrived and the world works scientifically, we must continue to pursue every scientific avenue, I'm not sure where/how faith contradicts that.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1157 on: January 25, 2021, 11:44:54 AM »
The problem is that the entire world has been trying (unsuccessfully IMO) to understand this virus scientifically for a year already but there are still so many questions and unknowns and more keep cropping up as we bumble along. If I understand his point correctly, since scientific answers seem elusive our only option is to realize that G-d is totally in charge - the same way He brought the virus upon us (seemingly out of pretty much nowhere but introduced within a natural process), the same way He can remove it from within our midst in a natural way.

Klal Yisrael is nowhere close to believing that, let alone the rest of the world.

I would be hard pressed to be convinced that the virus was not brought about exactly for this purpose.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1158 on: January 25, 2021, 11:47:02 AM »
I don't understand how these two things, faith and science, are somehow mutually exclusive. While you're correct that science can't quash the pandemic in a heartbeat, we have learned a lot and come a long way in this past year, and will continue to learn more. Humility and faith are important but I'm not sure how you can suggest they somehow displace science. So long as Moshiach hasn't arrived and the world works scientifically, we must continue to pursue every scientific avenue, I'm not sure where/how faith contradicts that.

Do you really think that a "scientific" solution will come about faster than Moshiach once the entire world acknowledges the this is 100% in G-d's control?
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #1159 on: January 25, 2021, 11:48:31 AM »
I would be hard pressed to be convinced that the virus was not brought about exactly for this purpose.

I'm all for it, but the scientific objectives with regards to COVID (and variants, which is where this faith aspect came up) need to continue all the same.
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