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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #520 on: August 05, 2020, 03:18:57 PM »
That's nuts. Besides, how is it offensive to the baalei simcha if someone wants to wear a mask?

So my AC and I went to a different wedding yesterday that was supposed to be outdoors but had to be moved indoors due to the storm.

At the chuppah everyone was wearing a mask, other than the chosson and kallah and their immediate families. Even the mesader kiddushin wore a mask.

And the seats at the chuppah were spaced.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #521 on: August 05, 2020, 03:19:16 PM »
The problem is you are asking people to violate NY law as well potentially put their lives in danger, all in the name of "respecting the simcha."
If you truly feel that way then don't go. I really don't get your point. I think people who think like that is precisely why they don't want at their Simcha ;)

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #522 on: August 05, 2020, 03:32:21 PM »
Your a real class act. Spoken like a true liberal. Be nasty and hateful for the sake of inclusion. Your personal attacks need to stop.

If you truly feel that way then don't go. I really don't get your point. I think people who think like that is precisely why they don't want at their Simcha ;)

So when he labels you its a personal attack, but its OK for you to label me?

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #523 on: August 05, 2020, 03:34:24 PM »
So when he labels you its a personal attack, but its OK for you to label me?
I labeled you? I said people who truly feel that there is a threat at a wedding should not be going. Very simple.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2020, 03:54:52 PM by yaakov35 »

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #524 on: August 05, 2020, 03:53:18 PM »
So, here is the flip side from Monsey. I have redacted the names of the chosson and kallah and their families, but I can't believe that anyone would have the audacity to ask people to "respect" the simcha by not wearing a mask




I gotta ask, are they British?

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #525 on: August 05, 2020, 04:05:56 PM »
I labeled you? I said people who truly feel that there is a threat at a wedding should not be going. Very simple.
« Last Edit: Today at 03:54:52 PM by yaakov35 »

After you edit your original post to only say "people who truly feel that there is a threat at a wedding should not be going" then you won't have labeled me.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #526 on: August 05, 2020, 04:21:23 PM »
What did the police do wrong here?

Why fine the Chosson (even if we assume that a fine is justified) fine the parents. There were questions raised as to weather the fine was justified, as there are claims that the event was in compliance. 
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #527 on: August 05, 2020, 04:31:38 PM »
So, here is the flip side from Monsey. I have redacted the names of the chosson and kallah and their families, but I can't believe that anyone would have the audacity to ask people to "respect" the simcha by not wearing a mask









I can't figure out the major anxiety people suffer from seeing other people wearing a mask. I hope they get proper care for these issues.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #528 on: August 05, 2020, 04:48:54 PM »
I labeled you? I said people who truly feel that there is a threat at a wedding should not be going. Very simple.

What about people who feel that the risk is manageable with a mask? Why does it have to be all or nothing?
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #529 on: August 05, 2020, 04:54:53 PM »
What about people who feel that the risk is manageable with a mask? Why does it have to be all or nothing?
Because these weddings have 3-400 people. Let's be honest mask isn't really helping in a scenario like that....

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #530 on: August 05, 2020, 04:58:58 PM »
Because these weddings have 3-400 people. Let's be honest mask isn't really helping in a scenario like that....

But why does it bother them so much that they need to put on the invitation that wearing a mask disrespects their simche?
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #531 on: August 05, 2020, 05:09:12 PM »
Because these weddings have 3-400 people. Let's be honest mask isn't really helping in a scenario like that....

Debatable, especially for people who are coming in for 5-15 minutes to wish mazal tov, but this:

But why does it bother them so much that they need to put on the invitation that wearing a mask disrespects their simche?
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #532 on: August 05, 2020, 05:10:48 PM »
So, here is the flip side from Monsey. I have redacted the names of the chosson and kallah and their families, but I can't believe that anyone would have the audacity to ask people to "respect" the simcha by not wearing a mask




People say it's photoshopped and was never written. A parent of the Baal simcha was niftar from covid. Like a lot of the lashon hara on the internet, it's fake.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #533 on: August 05, 2020, 05:41:46 PM »
People say it's photoshopped and was never written. A parent of the Baal simcha was niftar from covid. Like a lot of the lashon hara on the internet, it's fake.

I truly hope that you are right that it was photoshopped and that no one would ask people to attend without a mask.

The copy that was sent to me by whatspp had the names of the chosson & kallah and their families, but I removed them because I felt that it would be loshon hara to publicly identify them.

But if you are correct then I am very glad that I did remove the names.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #534 on: August 05, 2020, 05:44:49 PM »
People say it's photoshopped and was never written. A parent of the Baal simcha was niftar from covid. Like a lot of the lashon hara on the internet, it's fake.

Yet some here are very ambivalent to such anxiety.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #535 on: August 05, 2020, 09:29:53 PM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curious-history-of-steam-heat-and-pandemics?srnd=premium

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #536 on: August 06, 2020, 12:23:48 AM »
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There’s a joke about immunology, which Jessica Metcalf of Princeton recently told me. An immunologist and a cardiologist are kidnapped. The kidnappers threaten to shoot one of them, but promise to spare whoever has made the greater contribution to humanity. The cardiologist says, “Well, I’ve identified drugs that have saved the lives of millions of people.” Impressed, the kidnappers turn to the immunologist. “What have you done?” they ask. The immunologist says, “The thing is, the immune system is very complicated …” And the cardiologist says, “Just shoot me now.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #537 on: August 06, 2020, 03:05:06 PM »
Because these weddings have 3-400 people. Let's be honest mask isn't really helping in a scenario like that....
Why not? That's the only thing helping in a scenario like that, assuming one is wearing an N95 type mask.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #538 on: August 06, 2020, 04:25:40 PM »
Why not? That's the only thing helping in a scenario like that, assuming one is wearing an N95 type mask.

Wasn't there something about N95 not necessarily being the most effective type of mask to prevent COVID-19 spread? @yuneeq
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #539 on: August 06, 2020, 04:52:28 PM »
Wasn't there something about N95 not necessarily being the most effective type of mask to prevent COVID-19 spread? @yuneeq

Supposedly if it has a valve (which some N95’s have) it only blocks particles from being inhaled, but not from coming out.
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