Rules for no purpose at all

 Every Jew has an instinct for Torah and mitzvos, that life requires considerable thought and rules. Non-religious people apply this instinct in the wrong places. They make up thoughts and cling to them as if they are Torah and they make up rules, imagining that somehow they are for everyone's benefit. Non-religious Jews are not just dangerous in their animosity to religious people, they are dangerous in the way they lead their own lives. In the places where the Torah allows freedom and naturalness, the non-religious make problems. They abandon Torah which is designed for productive and happy living because they deem it too restrictive and then they go and invent rules that make life restrictive in ways that are unproductive and not even any fun. In America and other goyish countries, the non-religious Jews can only make life somewhat miserable because the goyim, who like to have fun, won't allow full misery. But in the secular political state of israel, non-religious Jews are in charge and they are no fun at all. They are not holy and they are not healthy and they are not even any fun. It's a miserable culture.

In the secular political state of israel now, the police are handing out tickets everywhere, making little girls cry, stopping cars, arresting people all over these ridiculous masks. As I posted earlier, many public health experts, including the World Health Organization, say that only sick and at risk people should wear masks and only when they are in crowded places. The lungs need clean air and unobstructed breathing. Putting a dirty rag on your face so that you can suck in your carbon dioxide laden used breath is not good for you. Your blood and your brain, your entire body, depend on good, clean breathing. Masks hinder all that. So you should put them on only when necessary, not all day long as if they are some kind mezzuzah.

But don't tell that to the Chofshim and the Dati Leumi crowd, most of latter being at least half chofshi. These are generally people who squander their instincts for Torah and redirect it to the secular. Life is serious for it's the place where we earn our olam haba. Death is tragic because we no longer have the opportunity to serve God. But that's not how they see it. They apply instead the goyish notion that death is terrible because that's the end of everything. There is only this world. So we must do everything to stay alive even if that means killing off religion, Heaven forbid. Goyim will only let that go so far because they like freedom and fun. Jews who have an instinct not to be so obsessed with freedom and fun WILL let it go so far. In their confusion, they'll ruin this world and the next.

In the secular political state of israel, there are only 88 serious cases of COVID. I don't know but I would imagine that nearly all are elderly with serious pre-existing conditions because that's what nearly all of the 308 deaths have been. What about the thousands listed as COVID cases? They are people who have tested positive for anti-bodies. Those are proteins that the body creates when it fights off disease. In many places around the world, that's all that's needed to consider a person sick with COVID even though in reality most are healthy people whose bodies as created by God are fighting off COVID. In the secular political state of israel they are testing mostly people with some symptoms but most of those are just cold symptoms. I have a neighbor who is in quarantine because he tested positive for COVID. He's a little tired with some sniffles. Since when do we shut down society over sniffles?

Well if a person is a fry Jew, a non-religious rebel against God and he doesn't know what to do with his inborn instinct for din (rules) and seriousness, if he sees this life as the only life, then he might do some totally overboard things. If he is raised on military culture, like nearly everyone in the secular political state called israel is, then he might do militaristically overboard things like shut down society. When all you  have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So what did the health minister do when he was in the military and the Arabs protested a bit "too much"? He locked them in their houses. He enforced curfews with uniformed personnel. And that's what he's doing here too. And you think he has science advisors. Well, it's not just American public health experts and Swiss health experts that are telling us that the response to COVID has been over the top and counter productive. There are health experts secular political state called israel who say the same. But the leaders in chutzeh l'aretz don't listen to their experts and neither do the ones in the secular political state called israel.

CDC fundamentally is highly corrupt

 "And also the CDC fundamentally is highly corrupt. They have a revolving door with pharma. Their entire emphasis is always on reactionary solutions, on vaccines, and medical interventions, not really on promoting immune health."

Dr. Shiva Ayyaduri, PhD

Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including a Ph.D. in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, MEng, PhD)

The Purple Gang

 For all those who mistakenly hold the view that all Jews, religious or not, are wonderful people. Note all the traditional Jewish names in the following excerpts.

(from wikipedia:)

The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers, with predominantly Jewish members. They operated in Detroit, Michigan during the 1920s of the Prohibition era and came to be Detroit's dominant criminal gang. Excessive violence and infighting caused the gang to destroy itself in the 1930s.The gang was led by brothers Abe, Joe, Raymond, and Izzy Bernstein,^[8] who had moved to Detroit from New York City.^[9] 

The Purple Gang was involved in various other criminal actions, such as kidnapping other gangsters for ransom, which became very popular during this era. The FBI suspected that they were involved with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.[6][12]


By the late 1920s, the Purple Gang reigned supreme over the Detroit underworld, controlling the city's vice, gambling, liquor, and drug trade.[13] They also ran the local wire service, providing horse racing information to local horse betting parlors.[1] The gang members consorted with more infamous mobsters, branching into other cities, as well. Abe Bernstein was a friend of Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis, with whom he owned several Miami, Florida gambling casinos in his later years.[14] The gang hijacked prizefight films and forced movie theaters to show them for a high fee. They also defrauded insurance companies by staging fake accidents.[9]

As the gang grew in size and influence, they began hiring themselves out as hitmen[14] and took part in the Cleaners and Dyers war. The Purples profited from the Detroit laundry industry unions and associations.[8] They were hired out to keep union members in line and to harass non-union independents.[8] Bombing, arson, theft, and murder were the usual tactics that the gang employed to enforce union policy.[6][14]

Abe Axler and Eddie Fletcher were reputedly imported from New York City to take part in the scheme (although other sources put their origins in Detroit).[6][10] In 1927, nine members of the Purple Gang (Abe Bernstein, Raymond Bernstein, Irving Milberg, Eddie Fletcher, Joe Miller, Irving Shapiro, Abe Kaminsty, Abe Axler, and Simon Axler) were arrested and charged with conspiracy to extort money from Detroit wholesale cleaners and dyers.[14] They were eventually acquitted of all charges.[6]

A Detroit Mob War soon ensued between the Italian, Irish, and Jewish bootleggers over territory. The Purples fought a vicious turf war with the Licavoli Squad led by the brothers Tommy and Pete Licavoli.[1][4] In March 1927, three men were killed. The deceased men had been brought into Detroit as hired assassins for the Purple Gang and the motive for the murder was believed to be retaliation for a "double cross". The homicides took place in an apartment leased by Purple Gang members Eddie Fletcher and Abe Axler (and reportedly Fred Burke, which made them prime suspects in the slaying.[10]) The three suspects (Fletcher, Axler, and Burke) were questioned, as were the other Purples and associates.[17] No one was ever convicted of the murders.[6] These murders were reportedly the first use of a submachine gun in a Detroit underworld slaying.[18]

The Purple Gang was suspected of taking part in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.[9] On February 13, 1929, Abe Bernstein reputedly called Bugs Moran to tell him that a hijacked load of booze was on its way to Chicago. Moran, who was in the middle of a turf war with Capone, had only recently begun to trust Bernstein, who had previously been Capone's chief supplier of Canadian liquor.[14] The next day, instead of delivering a load of liquor, four men, two in police uniforms, went to S.M.C. Cartage on North Clark Street (Moran's North Side hangout) and opened fire with Thompson submachine guns, killing seven men in what has become known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.[14]

The Purple Gang began terrorizing Detroiters with the street executions of their enemies....In 1931, an intra-gang dispute ended in the murder of three Purples by members of their own gang, Chicago gangsters who had been imported to Detroit to help out the Purple Gang.[6] The three men had violated an underworld code by operating outside the territory allotted to them by the Purple Gang leadership.[8] Herman "Hymie" Paul, Isadore Sutker a.k.a. "Joe Sutker", and Joseph "Nigger Joe" Lebowitz were lured to an apartment on Collingwood Avenue on September 16, 1931.[22] They believed they were going to a peace conference with the Purple leaders.[8] After a brief discussion, the three men were gunned down.[22] Authorities caught up with the gang when they burst into Fletcher's apartment and found the suspects (Abe Axler, Irving Milberg, and Eddie Fletcher) playing cards. Ray Bernstein and Harry Keywell were also arrested.[22]

Irving Milberg, Harry Keywell, and Raymond Bernstein, three high-ranking Purples, were convicted of first-degree murder in the Collingwood Manor Massacre and were sentenced to life in prison.[8] Bernstein, Milberg, and Keywell were accompanied by police officers on a special Pullman train bound for Michigan's Upper Peninsula to begin serving their sentences in the state's maximum security prison in Marquette, Michigan.[23] Harry Fleisher, another suspect, remained on the run until 1932, but he was never convicted in connection with the massacre.

Large portion of COVID deaths in NY area may have resulted from COVID hype.

 Here's the problem with hysteria. Remember when the frum community in New York was reporting many deaths and it seemed like the sky was falling? A high percentage were caused by government overreach. (A high portion were misrepresented as well, people who had cancer, etc.) Many US states, relying on early predictions of mass COVID-19 casualties, feared the hospitals would be overwhelmed. Thus, they ordered nursing homes to take in Corona patients. As we have learned, the elderly and gravely ill are uniquely susceptible to the disease. The result: By May 13, one-third of reported coronavirus deaths in the United States, according to New York Times reporting, were of nursing home residents or workers. In New Jersey and Connecticut, which had such a policy, half of the deaths were in nursing homes. NY State had over 5,000 nursing home deaths as of May 13. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely criticized in the national media for avoiding a total lockdown, zeroed in on nursing homes, encouraging repeated testing and temperature-taking of residents and staff and isolating anyone testing positive. Florida, a state with 2 million more people than New York, had just 714 nursing home deaths, 13% of the number in New York. (Michael Barone, Town Hall, May 15, 2020) See hysteria gives you the feeling you are safe but it really endangers you. We must be objective and fact based and rational.

 https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2020/05/15/who-sent-covid19-positive-patients-into-nursing-homes-n2568837

Richard Moskowitz, M. D. – The Case Against Immunizations

 Richard Moskowitz, M. D. – The Case Against Immunizations

BA from Harvard, MD from NYU

Excerpts:

3.   How Do the Vaccines Work?

It is dangerously misleading, and indeed the exact opposite of the truth, to claim that a vaccine renders us “immune” to or protects us against an acute disease, if in fact it only drives the disease deeper into the interior and causes us to harbor it chronically instead, with the result that our responses to it become progressively weaker, but show less and less of a tendency to heal or resolve themselves spontaneously. What I propose, then, is to investigate as thoroughly and objectively as I can how the vaccines actually work inside the human body, and to begin by simply paying attention to the implications of what we already know. Consider the process of falling ill with and recovering from a typical acute disease, such as the measles, in contrast with what we can observe following administration of the measles vaccine.

We all know that measles is primarily a virus of the upper respiratory tract, both because it is acquired by susceptible persons through inhalation of infected droplets in the air, and because these droplets are produced by the coughing and sneezing of a patient with the disease. Once inhaled by a susceptible individual, the virus undergoes a prolonged period of silent multiplication, first in the tonsils, adenoids, and accessory lymphoid aggregations of the nasopharynx; later in the regional lymph nodes of the head and neck; and eventually, several days later, it passes into the blood and enters the spleen, the liver, the thymus, and the bone marrow, the “visceral” organs of the immune system. [16] Throughout this “incubation” period, which lasts from 10 to 14 days, the patient typically feels quite well, and experiences few or no symptoms of any kind. [17]

By the time that the first symptoms of measles appear, circulating antibodies are already detectable in the blood, and the height of the symptomatology coincides with the peak of the antibody response. [18] In other words, the “illness” that we call the measles is simply the definitive effort of the immune system to clear this virus from the blood. Notice also that this expulsion is accomplished by sneezing and coughing, i. e., via the same route through which it entered in the first place. It is abundantly clear from the above that the process of mounting and recovering from an acute illness like the measles involves a general mobilization of the immune system as a whole, including inflammation of the previously sensitized tissues at the portal(s) of entry, activation of leukocytes, macrophages, and the serum complement system, and a host of other mechanisms, of which the production of circulating antibodies is only one, and by no means the most important.

Such splendid outpourings indeed represent the decisive experiences in the normal physiological maturation of the immune system in the life of a healthy child. For recovery from the measles not only protects children from being susceptible to it again, [19] no matter how many more times they may be exposed to it, but also prepares them to respond promptly and effectively to any other infections they may encounter in the future. The ability to mount a vigorous acute response to infection must therefore be reckoned among the most fundamental requirements of health and well-being that we all share.

By contrast, the live but artificially attenuated measles-virus vaccine is injected directly into the blood, by-passing the normal port of entry, and sets up at most a brief inflammatory reaction at the injection site, or perhaps in the regional lymph nodes, with no local sensitization at the normal portal of entry, no “incubation period,” no generalized inflammatory response, and no generalized outpouring. By “tricking” the body in this fashion, we have accomplished precisely what the entire immune system seems to have evolved to prevent: we have placed the virus directly into the blood, and given it free and immediate access to the major immune organs and tissues, without any obvious mechanism or route for getting rid of it.

The result is the production of circulating antibodies against the virus, which can in fact be measured in the blood; but this antibody response occurs as an isolated technical feat, without any overt illness to recover from, or any noticeable improvement in the general health of the recipient. Indeed I submit that exactly the opposite is true, that the price we have to pay for these antibodies is the persistence of viral elements in the blood for long periods of time, perhaps permanently, which in turn carries with it a systematic weakening of our capacity to mount an acute response, not only to the measles, but to other infections as well.

Far from producing a genuine immunity, then, my suspicion and my fear is that vaccines act by interfering with and even suppressing the immune response as a whole, in much the same way that radiation, chemotherapy, corticosteroids, and other anti-inflammatory drugs do. Artificial immunization focuses on antibody production, a single aspect of the immune process, disarticulates it, and allows it to stand for the whole, in much the same way as chemical suppression of an elevated blood pressure is accepted as a valid substitute for genuine healing or cure of the patient whose blood pressure has risen. It is the frosting on the cake, without the cake. The worst part of this counterfeiting is that it becomes more difficult, if not impossible, for vaccinated children to mount a normally acute and vigorous response to infection, by substituting for it a much weaker, essentially chronic response, with little or no tendency to heal itself spontaneously.

….

In a recent British outbreak of whooping cough, for example, even fully-immunized children contracted the disease in large numbers, and their rates of serious complications and death were not reduced significantly. [5] In another recent outbreak, 46 of the 85 fully-immunized children studied eventually contracted the disease. [6]

In 1977, 34 new cases of measles were reported on the UCLA campus, among a population that was supposedly 91% immune, according to careful serological testing. [7] In 1981, another 20 cases were reported in the area of Pecos, New Mexico within a few-month period, and 75% of them had been fully immunized, some quite recently. [8] A survey of sixth-graders in a well-immunized urban area similarly revealed that about 15% of this age group are still susceptible to rubella, a figure essentially identical with that of the pre-vaccine era. [9]

Finally, while the incidence of measles has dropped sharply, from about 400,000 cases annually in the early 1960’s to about 30,000 by 1974-76, the death rate has remained exactly the same, [10] while among adolescents and young adults, the group with the highest incidence at present, the risk of pneumonia and liver abnormalities has increased quite substantially, to well over 3% and 20%, respectively. [11]

Richard Moskowitz, M. D. – The Case Against Immunizations

Dr. Toni Bark

 "this is a liability free product that is being mandated on children"

Dr Toni Bark, MD Speaking to the Washington State Legislature 

the majority of measles cases are with the vaccinated
the largest outbreak NYC has ever seen was started by a recipient of the MMR booster

Guard your spiritual health

 

Bar mitzvahs, Shalom Zachars, and baby girl kiddishes in parking lots:

I should add that these parking lot 'simchas' are not just unpleasant and not respectful to the occasion but they also are very brief. I don't know if it's because people don't want to stand in parking lots or if it's because everyone has been trained to be afraid of everyone else on account of this plandemic, but they haul out of there in minutes. I went to a kiddush for a baby girl in a parking lot this Shabbos and nearly everyone left after about 8 minutes. I was left alone with the father.

online wedding:

another online wedding:

non-invitation invitations to pint sized weddings:

I received a wedding invitation today with a note attached that said the wedding would be "in the style of Corona" and "I wish we would find a way to bring you all." Translation, we are inviting you so you won't be insulted and would like for you to attend but you really can't attend because of the Corona rules.

Kallas have waited their entire lives for their weddings. This is it for them. They get one shot at it. We tell them, your purpose in life is to be a wife and mother and so we are making this wedding very special to emphasize the point. This is her one moment in the spotlight. After this, it's behind the scenes for the rest of her life. And what does she get, a small gathering and for those who don't grasp the danger of the Internet a web presence.

Poorly attended minyanim:

Due to fear and due to the 10 person limit - people don't know if they'll get in - Others have been terrified by the COVID hype. 

another poorly attended shul

A shul with room for 100 men limiting entry to 10.

Here's the shul (name blotted out). Sizable building.

And no women are allowed to enter at all.

A sign at another shul warning away those who have not registered beforehand. 

No entry. There is where we stand. Not very welcoming. 

I know a kollel man who has not been to a minyan in 6 months because he feels it is improper to daven with a mask on. 

Here's a shul that has closed its library:

Now that's an incredible sign, the library is closed. Do not use the sefarim. Our life is supposed to be about Torah study but don't use the sefarim. 

Yeshivas are barely open. I know of several that are at 1/4 capacity.  This group goes into bidud (quarantine) that group goes in, the Rosh Yeshiva goes in, he comes out. He goes in again. The environment is  unstable. Government orders come down quickly and without substance as people who aren't even showing any symptoms are sent into bidud.

I know of a four year old boy that was sent into bidud. Two weeks alone in a room by himself. This is a way to create mental illness, heaven forbid. Yet, children do not get sick from the disease and contrary to the myth, they do not spread it either. Professor Dr. Beda M Stadler, the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus.  :

"The term ‘silent carriers’ was conjured out of a hat and it was claimed that one could be sick without having symptoms. Wouldn’t that be something! If this principle from now on gets naturalised into the realm of medicine, health insurers would really have a problem, but also teachers whose students could now claim to have whatever disease to skip school, if at the end of the day one didn’t need symptoms anymore to be sick." 

The capsule program that allegedly was designed to keep yeshivas open is also very suspect:

"Across the chareidi world, many are touting the success of the capsulot yeshivas. “The bocherim are learning full-force in the yeshivas”, is the innocent assumption. Yet, a closer look at the figures tells a far different tale. The yeshiva world in Eretz Yisroel numbers about 36000 bocherim. A mere 9000 bocherim originally entered the capsulot. The strangling conditions demanded of the bocherim caused many to drop-out, and today only about 5000 bocherim remain. There are also some yeshivas that don’t blindly follow the government’s orders and instructions, and their rabbanim opened the yeshivas normally. In all, about twenty thousand bocherim currently remain outside the walls of their yeshivas. It is still unclear if they will even open for Elul zman."  (the Sentry)

Kiruv is shut down too. I know a woman who is very interested in becoming Torah observant and I can't find anyone where she lives in the USA to invite her over for Shabbos.

Even the Chabad house in her area is shut down and not taking in Shabbos dinner guests and same goes for the local Sefardic synogogue. I asked them all numerous times to help. All are too terrified or too obedient. 

Chesed projects are suffering too. I know a person who runs 3 chesed projects all of which he has not been able to operate during this madness because people don't show up anymore. You'd think there'd be more chesed during a crisis but because of the inhuman rules there's less. And we don't even get into all the sinas chinom and mesirah that's going on all over the place. I know people who have been arrested and sent to jail as a result of mesirah.

from the Sentry:

A few weeks ago the Israeli “Corona Cabinet” issued severe restrictions limiting various gatherings. However, when the affected parties of each group issued strong protests, and vowed to ignore the demands, the restrictions were repealed. The only one that remained is the banning of more than ten davening in an inside minyan, and more than twenty davening outside.

Recently a mainstream writer wrote; “I never believed I would write these words, but the time has come; there is no reason at all to allow in the restaurants tens of people without masks, and in the shuls to only allow ten with masks. The only reason is that they are afraid of protests, and from the shuls they are not afraid. Therefore I call for all to ignore the demands of the ministry, and you’ll be a lot safer than those eating in restaurants. What about the fines? Put a guard to whistle. We are the am hanetzach that already learned how to handle and overcome bitter and difficult decrees.”

When officials were questioned; why are twenty five davening outside with masks standing apart more dangerous than fifteen thousand (secular) protestors without masks standing crowded together (a frequent occurrence!), the answers are a variety of politically polished terms. “Protesting is democratic, and can’t be limited”, “Let’s not start battling”, “We are examining all the data to determine that all will be uniform” etc.

Professor Grutto of the Ministry of Health said that they are discussing limiting davening in shuls on the yamim hanoraim. Perhaps there is a special health concern that shuls present, that would warrant their being singled out for limitations? He explained that the central issue of limitations is the economy, and being that limiting shuls doesn’t harm the economy, they are the first [and sometimes only] target.      

Reb Yeshaya Asher Zelig [ben Hinda] Chanun was arrested before Pesach for defying the orders of the Ministry of Health and going to daven in a shul. When the police arrived at the shul, he objected to a female policewoman entering the shul. He was taken away and locked up the entire Pesach. After Pesach his wife gave birth to a baby boy. Reb Chanun could only listen to his son’s bris over the phone, as he was deemed “too dangerous to release.” Last week he was re-incarcerated for another three weeks, in order to finish sitting for his crimes. 

Reb Binyomin [ben Hinda Malkah] Friedman was arrested under similar circumstances. He was jailed for one hundred and fifteen days. After a fierce struggle he was freed before the completion of the proceedings, as the prosecution had wanted to sit in jail till the end of the trial. He is currently on trial to determine the punishment for his “crimes.” 

Anyone for “Chareidi Lives Matter”? (The Sentry)

In the sefer Chafetz Chaim al HaTorah [Va’eschanan] the Chafetz Chaim explains why the posuk of “vi’nishmartem meod l’nafshoseichem”, which includes the commandment to guard one’s health, uses the term of nefesh, rather than the term guf. He explains that while engaging in the process of guarding the physical health, one may not thereby trample on his spiritual health. 

And it's not just in EY. All over the world there are attacks on religious freedom.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― On Friday, the United States Supreme Court declined to intervene on behalf of a Nevada church challenging the state’s ban on religious gatherings of more than 50 people while casinos are allowed to fill with thousands as long as they are at 50 percent capacity.  

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-supreme-court-wont-intervene-as-nevada-limits-church-services-but-casinos-can-host-thousands

Faith leaders are speaking out after California Gov. Gavin Newsom banned singing and chanting in houses of worship last week due to a surge in coronavirus cases following weeks of protests.

“Places of worship must, therefore, discontinue singing and chanting activities and limit indoor attendance to 25 percent of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees, whichever is lower,” the new guidelines read as state health officials recommend churches have members sing online from their homes."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-singing-ban-church-coronavirus-restriction

Yesterday, OrthoChristian reported that, the city of Toronto banned Holy Communion in its “COVID-19 Guidance for Places of Worship” issued on June 20, based on the recommendation of the Ontario Ministry of Health.

This ban was communicated to priests of the Greek Metropolis of Toronto in the evening of Saturday, July 4, as Fr. Fanourios Pappas of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Toronto emotionally told his flock that Sunday.

https://orthochristian.com/132458.html

California church holds indoor services despite judge's ban

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A California church held indoor worship services Sunday despite a judge's temporary restraining order barring the church from doing so.

Pastor Rob McCoy led three services in defiance of coronavirus health orders at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Ventura County's Newbury Park. McCoy had vowed Friday to continue in-person services even though the judge's order cited “an immediate threat to public health and safety due to the 2019 novel coronavirus.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-church-holds-indoor-services-despite-judge-s-ban/ar-BB17L1yF?ocid=msedgntp

These attacks on religious observance are part of a many decade trend. In this writer's view, Corona is being used as an EXCUSE to attack religion. It might even have been designed and created with that purpose in mind.

"We have had 14 cases at the Supreme Court of the United States in only nine years defending our "first freedom."

"Put in the context of legal history, the numbers are truly shocking. For the first 110 years of the American republic, the U.S. Supreme Court decided only three questions concerning religious liberty. The Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning religious freedom begins in earnest in the 1940s, and climbs off the charts from then to the present day.

"Put another way, for the first almost 100 years of our republic, there were zero cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, and 110 years passed before the high court heard a case on the First Amendment's Establishment Clause—and then not another case on either clause for another 41 years after that." (KELLY SHACKELFORD)

https://www.newsweek.com/religious-freedom-under-attack-like-never-before-opinion-1523094

Corona doesn't justify the restrictions as really there is no pandemic. In Eretz Yisroel, the count of seriously sick people is 358 out of 9 million people. That's .004%. Ninety-five percent of them are age 80 or over and have other serious conditions. Originally, the government predicted there would be tens of thousands of deaths by April! That was four months ago. As of August 7, 2020, there have been 576 deaths, nearly all elderly people with other very serious conditions. 

Adjusting for its radically wrong prediction, three weeks ago it said there would be a 1000 by now, getting it wrong again.

July 21 was 18 days ago, just short of 3 weeks. Today, according to the times of Israel, there are 358 serious cases.  (Update: 8/12/2020 379 serious cases after 3 weeks and 2 days.) 

This is from a TOI article reporting on comments from a hospital chief at Shaare Zedek:

(start excerpts)

A hospital chief said most COVID-19 patients who died at his institution had around a year’s life expectancy.

“Coronavirus was the thing that tipped them over, but to be honest, for most of these patients who died here in Shaare Zedek, the chance is they had a year of life expectancy, not much more,” said Ofer Merin.

Around 1 in 10 Israelis who have died from coronavirus succumbed at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where Merin is director-general. Almost all of the institution’s fatalities were both elderly and had other diseases, he told The Times of Israel.

….

There were two people in their thirties, three in their forties, seven in their fifties, and 23 in their sixties. The rest were aged 70 or older, and the average age of the entire group was 81.3.
…

“We did not lose a single patient who was a healthy young person,” he commented. 

….

"The vast majority had preexisting conditions, more than 95%"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-people-we-lost-to-covid-were-already-near-death-jerusalem-hospital-chief/

(end excerpts)

The average age of sick and deceased is similar all over the world. Professor John Ioannides of Stanford University, one of the most respected scientists on the planet and an expert in epidemiology and statistics says the vast majority of those who have died had other serious medical conditions and an age of 80. Here's what he said:

“COVID-19 has become a notifiable disease so it is readily recorded in death certificates. What we do know, however, is that the vast majority of people who die with a COVID-19 label have at least one and typically many other comorbidities. This means that often they have other reasons that would lead them to death. The relative contribution of COVID-19 needs very careful audit and evaluation of medical records.”

“In terms of numbers of lives lost, so far the COVID-19 impact is about 1% of the 1918 influenza. In terms of quality-adjusted person-years lost, the impact of COVID-19 is about 0.1% of 1918 influenza, since the 1918 influenza killed mostly young healthy people (average age 28), while the average age of death with COVID-19 is 80 years, with several comorbidities.”

 

“The predictions of most mathematical models in terms of how many beds and how many ICU beds would be required were astronomically wrong. Indeed, the health system was not overrun in any location in the USA, although several hospitals were stressed. Conversely, the health care system was severely damaged in many places because of the measures taken.”

In other words, the death counts that the press touts are very suspect. Hospitals actually get paid to label deaths as corona.  

"Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."  Senator Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/

On April 19, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was asked at a press conference about a reported death in the state of a teenager and whether that individual had “underlying conditions.” The governor turned the microphone over to Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, and her answer revealed a shocking point that should cast doubt on a certain unknown percentage of the stated coronavirus deaths.

“I don’t have that information at my disposal at this time; I know we have had people of all age groups die,” replied Dr. Ezike. Then she gave out more information than the reporter asked for, and what she said should set off all sorts of alarm bells about the accuracy of the death count.

“I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying of COVID,” said Dr. Ezike. “So, the case definition is very simplistic. It means at the time of death, it was a COVID-positive diagnosis. So that means that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means that, technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who is listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death. I hope that’s helpful.”

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-illinois-health-director-anyone-covid-positive-diagnosis-listed-covid-19-death/

Since 3 million people die a year in the USA, it is not hard to get to a figure of 150,000 if you are mislabeling deaths. In Israel, 3000 die a month. Not hard to get to a figure of 500 that way. And even if the figures in Israel are more reliable, 500 over 6 months is not a pandemic, particularly when the average age of death is 85. Former deputy general of the Health ministry Yoram Lass says numbers are easily manipulated so what you do to determine if there's a pandemic is compare total deaths of all causes verses that of prior years. In Israel, the count was actually lower in July of 2020 than July of 2019. No pandemic.

More from Former Israeli Health Ministry Director Professor Yoram Lass:

"Even in the early days of the coronavirus epidemic back in January 2020, I was looking at the data - not at the pictures - at the data from China. I knew that on a monthly basis - every month - one million Chinese approximately died every month. And the numbers coming out of the coronavirus epidemic were so small.

"Up to this point - and I believe the data - up to this point, less than five thousand Chinese people died from the coronavirus. Which is negligible; there is no plague. There is not even an 'event' in China.

"The same in Japan, where we have one-hundred-twenty-million people, and about one thousand people 'dying from coronavirus', and they did not die from coronavirus; they died from old age, cancer, heart attack, and so on.

"So, from the early days I knew there is no epidemic in eastern Asia. There is no epidemic in the Middle East. There is an epidemic event in western Europe and in the United States, which is comparable to a very severe influenza epidemic, that's all. So the world destruction is not justified."

"What we have is a pandemic psychosis. And the pandemic psychoses virus are the new means of communication, namely, the social networks which never existed before in previous viral pandemics; that's the answer. 

"People and governments are out of their minds. They see horror pictures. And the horror picture - which is true for a certain moment, a certain date, a certain location, but has nothing to do with the real picture - they look at these pictures and immediately it becomes a policy.

"So this is my answer: People, including governments, are out of their minds. And look at the situation in Sweden, who remained calm, rational, and look at the situation in Belgium, where they had this severe lockdown. Twice as many dead people in Belgium, if you compare Belgium to Sweden - twice as many - with severe lockdown."

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285216

People ask would so many countries be mistaken? Answer: they will be if they take their guidelines from one source.

Dr. Lass:

"Israeli policymakers follow the directions of the World Health Organization, which are absolutely wrong.

"According to WHO, if people die from cancer, from old age, from coronary heart disease, even from a road accident - if incidentally you have a positive coronavirus test, policymakers are obliged, according to the WHO, to write down 'coronavirus' as the cause of death, which is insane, and which is part of the insanity and the wrong numbers which are being currently published by governments around the world."

The primary funder of the WHO was the USA and #2 was Bill Gates who dominated USA global health policy. Now Gates is the #1 funder. Gates has a very suspicious history in this area both because of his investments in vaccines, how his vaccines have killed and sterilized young women in the third world, and his family history eugenics. 

This is why you have to compare the overall death count to prior periods. And over in New Jersey:

June/July deaths in NJ 2018: 11,986 June/July deaths in NJ 2019: 11,734 June/July deaths in NJ 2020: 11,881  

*source NJDOH database

And in England?

The number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen 96% since the peak of the pandemic, official data reveals.

Hospital staff are now treating just 700 coronavirus patients a day in England, compared to about 17,000 a day during the middle of April, according to NHS England.

Last week, some hospitals did not have a single coronavirus patient on their wards, with one top doctor suggesting that Britain is “almost reaching herd immunity”.

read more:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-wards-empty-as-virus-death-toll-plunges-bvm0mxl2n

So we have shut down religious life over what? Hysteria? Or is it a hoax with the intention of shmad? This is not to say that there's no disease out there at all. There are lots of diseases out there. This is one of them. It is like the seasonal flu only less deadly. It is also less deadly than smoking induced cancers, diet induced heart disease, and car accidents. In the last six months, 4,000 people died in Eretz Yisroel from smoking induced cancers, 9x greater than the amount from COVID, and again nearly all the COVID deaths are of the elderly with other conditions and a handful of younger people with other serious medical problems. 

The elderly and infirmed should be more careful. But a pandemic this is not. And we should not shut down society, not allow our religion to be shut down.

IF this was actually a deadly GLOBAL pandemic bodies would be PILING UP in 3rd world countries that can't socially distance & have no sanitation. But there are few deaths occurring there. Why doesn't the media inquire about this?

Something very fishy is going on.

More from health experts:

Dr. Scott W. Atlas, M.D:

“But there’s a more fundamental point that I want to make sure have time to address and that is this idea that somehow has evolved that we must stop cases. That was never the policy, that should never be the policy when you have an infection that 99% of people have no problem with. It’s no big deal if low risk people get the infection. It’s really irrational to somehow keep apart healthy younger people, to insist that they should wear a mask, or that there should be some limit in restaurants. If you are high risk, you are high risk. But the most recent data shows that the infection fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.04%. That’s one-one hundredth of the original number. And what that means is for people under 70 years old your infection fatality rate is less than or equal to seasonal flu. If people want to shut down things because of that kind of risk then we better shut down all the schools and restaurants during November through April [every year] because that’s the flu season. The same risk people for this are at risk to die from the flu. And so there’s been a complete loss of common sense here. In Arizona specifically, yes, the cases are increasing, like they are in Texas, and Florida. It doesn’t matter if we see the following analysis which is that the vast majority of people are younger, healthier people. When we have more social mingling, we will get more infections. That’s obvious. There’ a contagious disease present. If we get more testing, we will see more infections. That’s obvious. But the point is that this is not nearly as deadly as what people thought. We see that the states that have more lax or more open policies, none of them are even in the top 15 of deaths per million. It’s the states with the lockdowns that are not the states – I mean Arizona ranks last I looked at 21st. Florida is something like 27^th. Texas is 40^th in deaths per million. Yes, there are more cases but there are not more virulent terrible results of those cases. We don’t see more and more ICU beds being used and I’m going to explain that in a second. We don’t see more deaths. We see decreasing deaths.  When we see what’s happening in the ICUs and the hospitalizations there’s another factor besides the fact that it’s younger, healthier people. We know from looking and speaking to the doctors and the hospital administrators that they are testing every person who comes in. And that means, let’s just say for example, a woman comes in to deliver a baby she’s tested for COVID-19, she’s positive, they categorize that as a hospitalization for COVID-19. I mean these are people that are asymptomatic. They are not hospitalized for COVID-19. They are hospitalized with COVID-19. And the same thing is going where the hospital needs to isolate people who they think are infected even if they are in for something else, OK, and so we isolate them, and some of them are isolated in ICU beds. So the numbers they have to be looked at more carefully. There’s no kneejerk response of fear. OK, there is decreasing deaths per day. It doesn’t matter that young healthier people get the infection. In fact there’s a positive. Because we know the way to get immunity in the population is to have more people who are lower risk get the infection and become immune. That’s the whole point of giving vaccines to stop the pathways of the virus to the most risky people. That’s why we give widespread populations vaccines, for herd immunity. And the way naturally to get herd immunity is to have low risk people have the infection, they build up immunity, and eventually the pathways to the high-risk people are blocked. There’s nothing wrong with more cases. The only thing that counts is protecting the people who are going to die. By the way, we look at the hospitalization data, yes there are more cases, but even the people who are hospitalized, have much shorter length of stay. Those hospitalizations are not translating into very serious bad outcomes. So the panic here is again a manifestation of irrational people and irrational people in charge frankly. And it’s really a sad state of affairs to me, although it’s confusing, it’s sort of embarrassing in a sense to be among Americans who are so compliant, so acquiescent to irrational infringement on what their rights are.”  [Interview on Drive in with The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis, June 26, 2020. 6:18-11:21] 

“Nobody gives by the way publicity to the WHO’s recommendation quote they do not recommend masks for the general public, unquote, even in their updated note, if you bother to read their whole technical note they say that. And they are talking about the only time you wear a mask is if you are at risk, high risk group, in an area of widespread transmission of the disease and you cannot be three feet away from someone.” [Interview on Fox News, Jun 9, 2020] 

Dr. Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a Member of Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Health Care Policy. Recognized internationally as a leader in both education and clinical research, he was a Senior Advisor for Health Care to a number of candidates for President of the United States during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential campaigns. Professor of Radiology and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 until 2012.

Dr. Beda M Stadler, MD:

“Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel. Secondly, it was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.” 

“this so-called novel virus is very strongly related to Sars-1 as well as other beta-coronaviruses which make us suffer every year in the form of colds.” 

“the entire world simply claimed that there was no immunity, but in reality, nobody had a test ready to prove such a statement. That wasn’t science, but pure speculation based on a gut feeling that was then parroted by everyone. To this day there isn’t a single antibody test that can describe all possible immunological situations, such as: if someone is immune, since when, what the neutralising antibodies are targeting and how many structures exist on other coronaviruses that can equally lead to immunity.” 

“In mid-April, work was published by the group of Andreas Thiel at the Charité Berlin. A paper with 30 authors, amongst them the virologist Christian Drosten. It showed that in 34 % of people in Berlin who had never been in contact with the Sars-CoV-2 virus showed nonetheless T-cell immunity against it (T-cell immunity is a different kind of immune reaction, see below). This means that our T-cells, i.e. white blood cells, detect common structures appearing on Sars-CoV-2 and regular cold viruses and therefore combat both of them.” 

"The term ‘silent carriers’ was conjured out of a hat and it was claimed that one could be sick without having symptoms. Wouldn’t that be something! If this principle from now on gets naturalised into the realm of medicine, health insurers would really have a problem, but also teachers whose students could now claim to have whatever disease to skip school, if at the end of the day one didn’t need symptoms anymore to be sick." 

“So if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person, it is not a virus that is detected, but a small shattered part of the viral genome. The test comes back positive for as long as there are tiny shattered parts of the virus left. Correct: Even if the infectious viruses are long dead, a corona test can come back positive, because the PCR method multiplies even a tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [to be detected]. That’s exactly what happened, when there was the global news, even shared by the WHO, that 200 Koreans who already went through Covid-19 were infected a second time and that there was therefore probably no immunity against this virus. The explanation of what really happened and an apology came only later, when it was clear that the immune Koreans were perfectly healthy and only had a short battle with the virus. The crux was that the virus debris registered with the overly sensitive test and therefore came back as “positive”. It is likely that a large number of the daily reported infection numbers are purely due to viral debris.” 

“The virus is gone for now. It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold. Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.” 

“I recommend reading John P A Ioannidis’ latest work in which he describes the global situation based on data on May 1st 2020: People below 65 years old make up only 0.6 to 2.6 % of all fatal Covid cases. To get on top of the pandemic, we need a strategy merely concentrating on the protection of at-risk people over 65. If that’s the opinion of a top expert, a second lockdown is simply a no-go.” 

Dr. Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus, [Article in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche, June 10, 2020]

Dr. Michael Levitt, PhD winner of the Nobel Prize

And regarding those masks:

“Surgical masks will not prevent your acquiring diseases. Rather, surgical masks are typically used by surgeons to protect their patients from their mouth-borne germs —  but those masks don't work to prevent inhaling diseases,”

Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, and the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases told Fox News. 

Dr Suzanne Humphries

@DrsuzanneH

Medical doctor, Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Board certified, multi-state licensed. Author of Dissolving Illusions and Rising From The Dead.

"In a world where everyone is so obsessed with alkalizing, guess what happens when you re-breathe your carbon dioxide? That’s right, blood pH drops and you retain acid and have to get rid of it some other way. I hope you have a good kidneys."

Blood pH balance

Acidosis is when your blood pH drops below 7.35 and becomes too acidic. Alkalosis is when your blood pH is higher than 7.45 and becomes too alkaline. The two main organs that help balance the pH of blood are the:

• Lungs. These organs remove carbon dioxide through breathing or respiration.
• Kidneys. These organs remove acids through urine or excretion.

The different types of blood acidosis and alkalosis depend on the cause. The two main types are:

• Respiratory. This type occurs when the change in blood pH is caused by a lung or breathing condition.
• Metabolic. This type occurs when blood pH changes are due to a kidney condition or issue

Respiratory acidosis

When your lungs aren’t able to move enough carbon dioxide out of your body quickly enough, blood pH is lowered. This is called respiratory acidosis. This can happen if you have a serious or chronic lung condition, such as:

• asthma or an asthma attack
• sleep apnea
• bronchitis
• pneumonia
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• diaphragm disorders

If you’ve had surgery, are obese, or misuse sedatives, which are sleeping pills, or opioid pain medications you’re also at risk for respiratory acidosis.

In some slight cases, your kidneys are able to remove the extra blood acids through urination. You may need extra oxygen and medications such as bronchodilators and steroids to help the lungs work better.

In serious cases, intubation and mechanical ventilation can help you with respiratory acidosis to breathe better. It also raises your blood pH back to normal.

symptoms can include:

• headache
• memory loss
• sleep disturbance
• anxiety and personality changes

In acute respiratory acidosis, or if chronic respiratory acidosis gets progressively worse over time, the effects of raised CO2 in the brain become more severe.

Symptoms can include:

• confusion
• drowsiness
• stupor
• muscle jerking

In acute respiratory acidosis and deteriorating cases of chronic respiratory acidosis, blood rapidly becomes more acidic and dangerous.

Effects of a drastically lower pH in the blood include:

• reduced heart muscle function
• disturbances in heart rhythm, producing arrhythmias
• a drop in blood pressure

"N95 mask use increases inhaled carbon dioxide, reduces inspired oxygen, and increases the work of breathing.Resulting inhaled carbon dioxide of 2 to 3% (normal, 0.04%) produces transient acidosis and increases in minute ventilation, work of breathing,and cardiac output."

Wearing an N95 mask invokes a number of physiologic implications, particularly with prolonged use (greater than 1 h), higher workloads, or an overlying surgical mask (table ​(table11).2,3 Concomitant surgical mask use augments the impact of a cup mask due to further resistance to airflow, but diminishes the impact of a flat fold mask due to a reduction in deadspace.2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268846/?fbclid=IwAR1cZGOe7eIGpMD5k5pWKjz2QzODZpxbdGjriPzHQ9qPejuxUTuVC6cfjow

Additionally, dentists report that masks cause people to breathe out of their noses. As a result saliva, which is an important element in fighting cavities, dries up. People are getting cavities and gum disease, the latter increases the risk of strokes. 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mask-mouth-dentists-warn-prolonged-use-of-masks-leading-to-poor-oral-hygiene

Meanwhile, in Sweden:

"Sweden did it.

"The Nordic country defeated COVID-19 without seeming to break a sweat — fever-induced or otherwise. They effectively showed that Fauci & Co. were completely wrong about a shutdown being necessary to save civilization as we know it."

https://www.westernjournal.com/looked-happened-sweden-refused-shut-right-wrong/