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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #220 on: February 02, 2021, 12:18:37 AM »
What percentage of the frum world think that COVID only affects people in nursing homes?
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/starting-today-lufthansa-group-airlines-require-surgical-n95-masks/#comment-1516467
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Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #221 on: February 02, 2021, 12:25:12 AM »
״וזה כלל גדול: שישנא אדם כל דבר שקר. וכל מה שיוסיף שנאה לדרכי השקר – יוסיף אהבה לתורה.״ - אורחות צדיקים

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This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #222 on: February 02, 2021, 12:27:04 AM »
Was by the wedding tonite. He sang like he didn’t have a care in the world. Had no idea. Wow.
I would feel so guilty in his shoes. Knowing what my parnassah/industry is doing...I can't imagine the sense of helplessness.

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #223 on: February 02, 2021, 12:28:03 AM »
What percentage of the frum world think that COVID only affects people in nursing homes?
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/starting-today-lufthansa-group-airlines-require-surgical-n95-masks/#comment-1516467

He’s wrong that even if it’s true that 99% of young people live,
by us even the 1% that die is way too many

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #224 on: February 02, 2021, 12:57:33 AM »
What percentage of the frum world think that COVID only affects people in nursing homes?
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/starting-today-lufthansa-group-airlines-require-surgical-n95-masks/#comment-1516467

He's not so far off. What's the mortality rate for <65? 2%? So he's only a percentage point or two off.

OK, fine. So each percentage point accounts for tens of thousands in our communities alone. But still, 98%!

*not only is my math certainly off, it's based on faulty premises. I know.

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #225 on: February 11, 2021, 10:31:49 PM »
In the song, he describes what Tisha B'av will be like after Moshiach arrives.
I came across another song today, completely by accident, which I had not heard in many years, but it brought me to tears when I listened to it. The song was released 18 years ago, yet the emotion of the song and its equally powerful lyrics could very well have been made this year, during the height of this pandemic. Although I've heard the song many times in the past, the tune is still as fresh as ever. The song never garnered its deserved attention when it was released, and I really think a savvy singer should release it again, today, and it will take the world by storm.

The song is the title track of Sruli Ginsberg's second album, Az Yiboka. As a singer, he had his moment of fame after his debut album, due to the Pinky-Weber-composed title track, Aneini, which was later sung by Shwekey on a B'hisorerus. His second album gained almost no following, although one of the songs on it, Heima, composed by Lipa, became a worldwide sensation when Avrohom Fried released it a decade later on his album Keep Climbing.

Az Yiboka is as beautiful and as soulful as any song I've heard. Composed by Israeli rosh yeshiva Rabbi Hillel Paley, the song's three parts each contain a beauty and a complexity that is breathtaking. Although I always understood the words to be a message of yearning for Moshiach, I never noticed until tonight that the focus of the song is on the cholei Yisroel.

The message of the song has never been more apt and timely as it is now.

This song deserves a comeback, and I think it can really give chizuk to people nowadays. I wish I could influence a singer to release this as a single, so that it can become a meaningful tefillah for those davening for cholim.

I don't know singers, but the least I could do is post it here and urge my fellow DDFers to check it out. Maybe you, too, will hear in it what I heard.

link to song

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #226 on: February 11, 2021, 11:45:13 PM »
What percentage of the frum world think that COVID only affects people in nursing homes?
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/starting-today-lufthansa-group-airlines-require-surgical-n95-masks/#comment-1516467
Here's the full quote “Covid killed millions” – of nursing home residents. You and me and all of us here know that 99%+ of healthy people under 65 who get COVID are perfectly fine
Sorry but there's a lot of truth to it - especially if you count obese people as being unhealthy.
He’s wrong that even if it’s true that 99% of young people live,
by us even the 1% that die is way too many
Way too many in regard to what?

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #227 on: February 12, 2021, 12:07:33 AM »
Way too many in regard to what?

You're lucky the commissioner isn't on DDF these days and thus unable to nominate this for DACOTY

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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #229 on: February 12, 2021, 12:27:30 AM »
Way too many in regard to what?
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Re: This is getting serious... a somber thread about COVID-19
« Reply #230 on: February 13, 2021, 10:38:02 PM »
especially if you count obese people as being unhealthy.
Then what percent of the frum community would now be included?
Feelings don't care about your facts