ישראל ק Yisroel K.

Pandemics Aren’t What They Used to Be

If this were 1983, before the invention of the PCR test, there would be no possible rationale for the unending lockdown in Israel and for laws against running yeshivas, davening in groups, or visiting rebbes, friends, or succos. Deaths would not provide a reason because there haven’t been enough of them. 1,400 deaths over 8 months with each casualty being an average of 80 years old, the majority with other serious medical conditions, does not justify a lockdown of all of society while more than 4x that amount have died from diseases caused by cigarette smoking and about as many die each year from the flu. (In as many as a quarter of the Israeli COVID deaths, COVID wasn’t even a contributing factor but simply present to some degree in the body.) The count of sick people doesn’t justify it because there are about 800 of them at any one time, many with other conditions, and most of the 800 are the same people from month to month.

The alleged justification is the growth of the alleged “infection rate.” What determines whether people are infected? It’s not a traditional blood test. It’s not symptoms. It’s the polymerase chain reaction test.  PCR for short. PCR is a method used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it to a large enough amount to study in detail. It was not intended to be used to diagnose disease in a person. It’s purpose was research. As biologist Dr. Beda Stadler, the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, tells us, “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].”

What you read in the press over and over, what you hear from the politicians over and over, is that the infection is spreading. This claim is all based on ignorance about the PCR test. 80% of people who test positive show zero symptoms. 18% show minor symptoms that last a few days, like a good old-fashioned cold. The PCR test only tells you of exposure to a family of viruses called coronavirus. It doesn’t necessarily even tell you of exposure to COVID19. The PCR test in the hands of politicians and politically minded medical appointees is like a machine gun in the hands of the Hutu militia in Rwanda. It’s not something they could ever develop on their own, and in their mad hands it’s lethal.

Another dangerous invention was the change in definition of the word pandemic. Prior to September 2009, it meant a disease “against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” (May 1, 2009, World Health Organization)

In September of 2009, the WHO changed the definition: “A disease epidemic occurs when there are more cases of that disease than normal. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease.”

That is quite a difference. The traditional definition warns you of impending mass death. The new definition by the hipsters at the WHO can mean simply that more people than normal will catch a cold.

So they just toss around the word pandemic now and the average person goes by the definition that was in use since before his great-grandfather was born.  Between misuse of the PCR test and misuse of the word pandemic, the human race is in quite a panic. And panic is always double in Israel.

We are exposed to viruses all the time. Trillions of them are in the body, which valiantly fights them off. This is the first time in history that a normal physical process is termed sickness. The body is quite a miracle. God equipped it to do amazing things, like fight off disease. What’s happening here is that atheists, who don’t understand religion or medicine, whose entire mentality is shaped by the military to see every problem as war are acting and ordering us to act as if it’s 1973 and the Egyptian army is coming. Lockdown is what the military conducted in the West Bank during the Second Intifada. This is all these people know. Militarism. It’s a religion for them and they have found an excuse to impose it finally on the entire country, half of klal Yisroel.

What kind of epidemic is there when there are no shiva posters on the street, no hearses, thank God. If you don’t know anybody who knows anybody who died or was severely ill then you don’t have an epidemic. The government of Israel originally told us there’d be 10,000 dead by April. So that didn’t happen. They told us 3 months ago there’d be 1,000 seriously ill within 3 weeks. 3 weeks has come and gone 4 times. There’s 850 seriously sick. Nebach yes, pandemic no.

The concept of pikuach nefesh has parameters. Do you get in a car? You are endangering people. Do you have stairs in your house? Danger. 12,000 Americans die each year falling down the stairs. Do you serve chicken to guests? Danger. People choke. 5,000 a year choke to death. Where does it end?

What do we do? That’s a tricky one, that’s a question for gadolim. But I can tell you this much, we should realize we are being had, tricked, lied to. Is shmad, religious persecution, their intention? I don’t know, but it is the result.

What results also is a destruction of the economy and society. We could have built 100 hospitals for what the lockdowns are costing us.  A new hospital costs around $100 million. The lockdowns are costing billions. Many parts of Israel are an hour or more from the nearest hospital. A friend of mine died from complications caused by a stroke that could have been stopped had he lived closer to a hospital. I have another friend whose father died of a preventable heart attack, but he was avoiding doctors because of COVID19. According to world-renowned scientist Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University, “the health care system was severely damaged in many places because of the measures taken.” He says that the overreaction to the virus is putting millions of lives at risk worldwide. Reportedly, suicides are on the rise in Israel, particularly among lonely and isolated elderly people. Spousal abuse is on the rise too. I have several friends that are out of money and credit. They literally cannot buy groceries. The government will not let them work. It was bad enough when the new corporatocracy drove many people to live paycheck to paycheck, but now they don’t even have that. Even communist Russia gave each person a job. This is worse than communism. And these are people that did have some savings, but the lockdowns have gone on for months.

Some people who are not thinking very deeply into this crisis act as if lockdowns are the way to play it safe.  Of all the blunt and unimaginative proposals for a solution, a lockdown would have to be the most blunt and least imaginative of them all. We’ll just stop living. How’s that for a solution? It’s like divorce being a solution for the problems of marriage. We’ll just end the marriage. How about that? Simple.

Not so simple for the children. Mass destruction is not the solution to your problems. Lockdowns are the equivalent of divorce, suicide, and atom bombs. Only the guy dropping the bomb doesn’t see the problem. To him it’s a pretty cloud. Wait until he lands his plane and sees what he did.

It’s a Schmad!

“Health Minister Edelstein says the public will be allowed to gather and pray on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in a ‘very limited’ fashion.” (Times of Israel)

This is a Schmad, religious persecution. A grand total of 182 people under the age of 70 have died from or with COVID19 in Israel. I say from or with because the death certificates list COVID19 even if the person only tested positive for it but died from cancer or a heart attack.

And what does it mean to test positive? It means that the PCR test detected viral matter. The person may not be infected at all. There are many cases where family members have asserted that the deceased did not have any symptoms of COVID19, but the hospitals insisted on marking COVID19 on the death certificate. He or she was exposed to the virus. That’s all. But we are exposed to many viruses every day. The body fights them off. This is the first time in history that natural processes of good health are deemed to be sickness.

Moreover, the test in Israel uses a very high level of magnification. In Germany, they test at 30 cycles. In Singapore 32 cycles. In America, 34. But in Israel, they test at the ridiculously high level of 37 cycles. The more cycles, the more magnification. This is a hypersensitive test that detects the slightest viral matter. When the press tells you that there were 3,000 new infections the press is lying. They are LIARS. All the test shows is that the person was exposed to the virus. The person in the vast majority of cases is not now a case, not a patient, not sick. But over and over we hear of the infection rate expanding. What’s expanding is testing at 37 cycles of magnification.

All over frum neighborhoods, there are campaigns to test for the virus. Are they doing this in Chiloni neighborhoods? Some people did an experiment. They called up the health ministry and said a yeshiva bochur was exposed to somebody who tested positive. What should he do? Get tested, he was told. They called again and said a university student was exposed to somebody who tested positive. What should he do? Don’t get tested, he was told. You might force your classmate to go into bidud (quarantine) if you do. This experiment was repeated multiple times with the same result each time. The government is trying to frame religious Jews in particular.

That isn’t to say that they aren’t harassing the entire country, just not as much. Over 1 million people in Israel have been put into quarantine over the last six months. That’s over 11% of the population. And the secret police watch over it all, creeping into phones, and spying on people, and arresting, intimidating. And very few of the people whose lives have been turned upside down have been infected to any degree. The State of Israel was founded by violent militants and they created a culture of militarism. It’s a mentality that is everywhere evident in this society but has gone to ridiculous degrees over COVID19. The leaders act like they are in a war with Arabs. They think it’s 1948. One half-expects them to order everyone to shut their lights at night for fear of enemy COVID bombers locating the cities. They are a pack of dictators, wanna-be military commanders who have locked a million healthy people into quarantine.

And what if these people really were infected? That’s actually a good thing because 98% of them don’t get sick but they develop immunity. 80% of people who test positive show no symptoms at all. 18% show minor symptoms. As Dr. Scott Atlas, MD, of Stanford University explains:

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.

(Interview on Drive In with The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis, June 26, 2020. 6:18-11:21)

Dr. Atlas, a world-famous public health expert, is President Trump’s new Coronavirus adviser. He tells us that the way to protect the vulnerable is to allow younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus:

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. (Ibid.)

So the lockdown endangers the elderly and chronically ill.

I know a few people who have received positive results on the PCR test. Most have no symptoms at all. One or two have a few minor ones. I know of 4-year-olds in bidud, isolation. No symptoms except mental illness setting in from the utter lunacy of the way the diabolical leaders are handling this situation. People with symptoms are better in a day or two. It’s like a minor cold for most of them.

I have asked many people, do you know anyone who is sick. Everyone said no. Every single one said no. One had an aunt that was sick a few months ago. In six months, I found one person who knows someone who once was sick. What kind of epidemic is that? If there were an epidemic there’d be waiting lists for burials. You’d spot hearses on your street every day. This week, I was trying to find a shiduch for a 60 year old Kohen but couldn’t think of any almanas. If there were a pandemic, there would be plenty of almanas, Lo Aleinu.

Oh, you know of a case that’s severe? And your cousin knows of that case. And you all keep talking about it and talking about it. Maybe you read about it on Yeshiva World News, the misnamed Zionist propaganda website. The media repeats these stories, over and over. Everyone talks about the same single case. Sounds like a thousand people but it’s one.

But we don’t make public health decisions by talking about a single case you know. You can go view car wrecks with body parts all over the road. Hard thing to see. Are you going to ban cars forever? How about a visit to the hospital rooms of cancer patients? It’s gruesome.  Every ward in the hospital is gruesome, even the maternity ward has tragedies. Maybe you’ll view a film of a person choking to death on a chicken bone? That’s quite hard to watch. If you saw that would you say that we should never eat chicken again? We can never eat again because you know a case of one guy that choked. People get struck by lightning. Should we lock ourselves in our houses every time a cloud appears in the sky? People get electrocuted. Should we remove all electronics from our lives? Have you ever seen a person get electrocuted? It’s horrible.

This is not how you make public health decisions. You need to look at data. The health minister of Israel, an aspiring dictator, told us today that he won’t tolerate any discussion on the lockdown. He’ll take you to a Corona ward and you’ll understand. That’s how he makes decisions for the entire country. No need for data. No need for an understanding of immunology. Just loudmouth declarations of emotion — Israeli style.

In Israel, presently there are 480 seriously sick people from COVID19 out of a population of 9,200,000.

That is a tiny percentage. Meanwhile, 7,000 people will die this year in Israel from illnesses produced by cigarette smoking. 2,500 will die from pollution, 900 will die from the flu. How do I know? Because that’s what happens every year. So where were the lockdowns last year, where is the ban on smoking, why don’t they fix up the factories in Haifa? It’s been many years since birth defects were reported to result from that pollution in Haifa. Anybody shut down the factories? All you life lovers, where have you been? Surely that would cost less than the $6.5 billion NIS that this lockdown is going to cost, to go with the billions from the prior lockdowns. Are we so concerned with human life — one life is like the universe? That one concept has become the whole Torah in the goyishe brains of some people. Suddenly, we care about life? 10,000 a year are dying from the illnesses I just described. I never heard hysteria about them before. Just ban smoking, you’ll save 70,000 people a decade. No lockdowns required. 800 die a year from second- hand smoke! You can save 8,000 innocent people a decade. And what about the million and a half babies aborted in Israel? You love life so much? You value every Jewish life? Where have you been?

Maybe the difference is that banning smoking will not obstruct religious practice. Maybe closing or fixing the factories won’t destroy the Jewish religion. Ah, maybe that’s it. And maybe that’s why this latest lockdown starts on eruv Rosh Hashanah and goes through Simchas Torah! Can they be any more obvious?

Want to know who knows what a fraud this all this? The Prime Minister. Netanyahu was caught on video, riding in a car, saying “By the way, you don’t have to worry about this Corona. It’s all nonsense.” I have seen the video. He knows it’s nonsense, but he is shutting down the country, shutting down the Orthodox communities in particular.

So what will be with tefillah on Rosh Hashanah? That will be permitted by the masters, the kings, the dictators of the so-called Jewish democracy in a “very limited” fashion.  You hear that? Very limited.  For 70 years they have waited for this. And now they can conduct their Schmad and portray themselves as heroes for all who are too naive, too stupid to see it.

So what are the limitations? Essentially, it’s that 20 people can daven together outside, you know, in the parking lot. All day long in a parking lot in the heat, suffocating under a dirty mask with pieces of garbage and pigeon waste under their feet. In shuls, it’s a 10 person limit in most cases, in larger buildings more ‘capsules’ are permitted by the tyrants. But Rosh Hashanah davening cannot be staggered. It’s an all-day thing. You can’t have the first minyan at 7:00 and the second minyan at 9:00. So what does this mean? You can fit only a small portion of the men in the buildings. And what about the women? Everyone go find a parking lot and some kind of Shatz? This is what these animals, these pigs want to do to Rosh Hashanah. Woe to Klal Yisroel to have fallen to such a state. And all who supported the Zionists over the decades bear the guilt!

And what do alleged Orthodox Jews say about this? What do the people who claim to know just what Rosh Hashanah means, what Yom Kippur means, what a minyan means? Have they traded in Torah Judaism for the latest religion: pukuach nefesh? That’s the new religion. Life! Life!

How goyish is that? It’s totally goyish. Life without Torah makes you a goy. This worship of life for life’s sake is goyish. The average age of death from or with COVID19 in Israel is 80.4. One of the heads of Shaarei Tzedek hospital said that they didn’t lose one young healthy person and nearly everyone who died there had a year to live from other illnesses. Yes, we must get those terminally ill 80 year-olds another six months at the expense of our religion, at the expense of their grandchildren’s lives.

That’s not to say that lockdowns help them. As I explained the lockdowns limit herd immunity and endanger the terminally ill. But we have all become so hysterical about conquering death, about life for life’s sake, about extending the age of mortality just a tiny little bit so we can brag at World Health Organization conferences that the State of Israel is high in the rankings, we have become so irrational with this goyish, secular goal that we actually are endangering people by obstructing herd immunity. We have become simpletons.

We endanger people in other ways too. I have a family friend whose father feared going to the doctor during this time and suffered a massive heart attack. He is now a vegetable on life support. Others have reported such stories. There are many cases of suicides among the elderly who can’t deal with all the isolation. Dr. John Ioannides one of the most respected scientists on the planet says that a billion people worldwide are in danger of starvation because of the lockdowns. Lockdowns are not just inconvenient, they cost lives. Dr. Scott Atlas estimates that the far more limited restrictions in America kill more people each month than the virus has in its entire run.

Nobody conquers death. We will all die someday. Those who live for olam hazeh can’t deal with that. They want to push off the gehennom that awaits them by staying alive at all costs rather than by doing teshuva.

Goy! Shaygetz! The doctors who cause this hysteria are apikorsim. They are Esav. So, too, are the so-called rabbis that bow to them. The baal habatim are running Klal Yisroel right now, except in a few faithful communities.

The yomim noraim lockdown is only part of this Schmad. We have been in one kind of lockdown or another since Pesach. There are two yeshiva ketanas near my home. One was shut down entirely until they moved the whole thing to some kind of lockdown facility in another city. Another is partially open. 2/3 of the bochurim and the Rosh Yeshiva are in bidud. He’s been in bidud numerous times. He returns, he goes back. He’s not sick. He was in the presence of a bochur who was in the presence of somebody who tested positive for exposure to the virus. Nobody is sick. I stopped by the building this morning. The place is nearly empty of rabbis and bochurim. There were as many Arab construction workers in the building as Jews.

Same with shuls. They are shells of their former selves. Long-running shiurim have stopped. There are signs on the walls not to use the books. Minyanim that used to be packed are poorly attended, in part because of the rules limiting attendance. One shul that always had people learning in it, at least a half a dozen at all hours, save maybe 2 – 5 AM, now has one or two, sometimes none. A know a guy who went there for slichos today. He said they raced through slichos like they were trying to catch a train. He’s not going back, he said. This shul is not Dati Leumi. It’s not even yeshiva-light. It’s one of the more yeshivish places, so-called Israeli yeshivish which we are told means really schtarke. The place is nearly closed and has been so for months. I know teenage boys who used to go there after school to learn Gemara. The boys are in a funk now, in a daze. They don’t know what to do with themselves. There are many like this. There are bochurim all over the streets, just wandering around.

Yiddishkite is largely a religion of the mind. Duties of the heart comprise many of our most basic mitzvos. A person needs peace of mind to function as a Jew. All this government oppression, police oppression, tergiversations, instability, and panic are destroying people’s minds.

Pint-sized weddings are being held on rooftops. Young women wait their whole lives for the wedding. They dream of their weddings. It’s their one moment in the spotlight, the kickoff of their lives. How about starting your life with a whimper?

I have been to online bar mitzvahs, vorts and shalom zachars in parking lots. In my town historically, shalom zachars are packed. You can’t get in the room. And parking lot shalom zachars? 4 people show up. They stay for 10 minutes.

The wicked ones have been trying to destroy Torah for two hundred years. They want to turn us into Esav, into materialists who worship worldly things. The haskalah took many. Then Zionism stole away so many more. The lure of land, and armies and flags and building construction was too much for many. It appealed to their yetzer hara for materialism.

But it didn’t grab everyone. A small portion of Klal Yisroel stayed faithful. So now we have Corona. It is yet another trick. Ah, we’ll make this one into a mitzvah too. We are saving lives! Life. Guard your health says the Torah. “Vi’nishmartem meod l’nafshoseichem.” The same communities where fatty diets are the mainstay and children are stuffed with candy poison day and night suddenly are screaming to guard the health. The same Israelis who inspect every fruit with their dirty hands, pick up every donut before choosing one to buy, who put their bare rolls on the dirty food store conveyor belt are suddenly obsessed with disease transmission. Hypocrites!

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 physical health, one may not thereby trample on his spiritual health.

And what is spiritual health if not Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? What is life without a real Rosh Hashanah? What is life with a “very limited” Yom Kippur? That’s life? No, it’s not life. It’s death. Do you hear me? It’s death.

And what about the talks we get year after year? Our life hangs in the balance. It will all be decided on Rosh Hashanah. Did we mean it? Are we just parroting words? On Rosh Hashanah, we crown the king. Has Corona become the king? Is the health minister the king? Is the government security cabinet the king?

Hashem is the King! Hashem is the King! Hashem is the King! HASHEM IS THE KING!!! Are we to crown Him in the parking lot on top of the pigeon waste!

We shall see who grasps what Rosh Hashanah means in just a few days. We shall see who really believes in the power of Rosh Hashanah and who has sold his soul to the secular, heretical Zionists, Esav, and his little army.

Esav came with 400 men. Yaakov davened to Hashem.

Which are you? What are you going to do?