De Blasio: 16 New COVID Cases In Boro Park Is An “Early Warning Sign”

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BORO PARK (VINnews) — After Sunset Park in Brooklyn saw a spike in COVID cases, Boro Park has followed suit, announced Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday.

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The mayor said that Boro Park has seen 16 new cases in recent days, some of which may be linked to a recent large wedding that took place in the community.

“We are working immediately to galvanize community leaders, to work with Test and Trace Corps,” said de Blasio, who called the positive cases an “an early warning sign.”

While the mayor did not comment on whether or not the city would be penalizing the people involved with the wedding, he did say that it was in clear violation of state protocalls for COVID events, which may not operate at more than 50% capacity or host more than 50 people.

De Blasio seemed especially careful to not single out the Jewish community by name, which is unsurprising given the tremendous backlash he received after doing just that in an April tweet.

The mayor also stopped short of calling the situation a “cluster,” saying that as of now there isn’t enough evidence to reach that level.

 


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Chaya
Chaya
3 years ago

WHEN is Boro Park going to WAKE UP & start wearing masks & doing social distancing????? Do we have to wait until chasve sholom we hear of more deaths???? 99% of the people here in Boro Park are not wearing masks or doing social distancing. SHAME on all of you! People should be considerate if not for themselves, for others – family member, friends, neighbors, etc. This wedding was in violation – overpacked just like most of our Shuls. Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss recently wrote an article, “Why we must wear a mask?” You can find this article on the internet. Also, he said recently in his talk with the irgun, that someone came from California to a bris in Lakewood & people got infected there. This article should be a WAKE UP CALL! Wear a mask, do social distancing & get tested! I am one of the less than 1 percenters in Boro Park who does wear a mask. Well hopefully now more will wear a mask. I don’t know what is going to be as most of the shuls are going to be jam packed Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur. Although the Rav of my Shul died from the virus, no one is wearing a mask & no social distancing. Terrible! Don’t wear a mask & you infect somoene who dies – you will guilty of murder as a Rav in Israel sad in a recent article in last weeks ediition of the Hamodia! Did everyone forget about the over 1,500 Frum people we lost in the USA as a result of this virus? What about the 500 people who died in Boro Park, alone?

Tehran Nancy endorsed two Jew haters in their primaries.
Tehran Nancy endorsed two Jew haters in their primaries.
3 years ago

The population of Brooklyn is over 2.5 million so 16 new cases would be less than .00065% of the population.

Moshe bron
Moshe bron
3 years ago

Relax.
The murderers are the hospitals and governments that refuse to prescribe hydroxy when symptoms are still weak.
A positive test is NOT a death certificate.
Life in our community has been back to normal for 2 months already, and BH cases are minimal, herd immunity doesn’t mean that no one will ever get infected,
Just like measles, and TB. There’s thousands of cases annually in the US of both. And with all due respect to the rabanim that say we’re guilty of murder, there are plenty other rabanim that disagree.
And here is something to remember, also from the internet
The African country of Uganda (raid on entebee) has a population of 41 million.
Due to the prevalent malaria problem most of the country takes hydroxy at least once a year. Total covid deaths in Uganda
THIRTEEN as of monday

Rebbetzin without Portfolio
Rebbetzin without Portfolio
3 years ago

I wish they would have let the public know which wedding it was. Very disingenuous. Chances are that those 16 people could have caught it from a 3rd party. Who’s to say? There are also non-Jewish waiters that could have brought it in too.

Anomynous
Anomynous
3 years ago

I heard someone tell me her story – her father, 65 years old passed away from the virus. He was a big Trump supporter. Before Trump started to take the virus seriously, he didn’t think it was necessary to wear masks or do social distancing. Anyhow – so this healthy 65 year old man, with no underlying conditions, decided to listen to Trump & who just felt the virus will go away & not necessary to do any precautions, decided to no longer wear a mask or no need to have to do social distancing. So he went to a gathering, without a mask, soon after got the virus, on a ventilator, died 5 days later. She is blaming Trump and felt if Trump who he followed was not wearing a mask & made light of the virus, he didn’t need to wear one. So, I can understand her anger. Trump didn’t start to get serious about the virus until weeks ago suggesting more than 4 months after the start of the virus, finally felt should wear a mask. So you didn’t see him wearing a mask until recently. I know most people reading this are Trump supporters, as I have been, but Trump can be very reckless and careless. It is outrageous when he was told that there were over 150,000 deaths, his response was, “it is what it is.” No empathy. So yes, we are grateful that he moved the embassy to Yerushalayim, freed Rubashkin, the best friend Israel & the Jewish people had, but other than that, he is a low life that doesn’t value life. Has bad Middos & did a terrible job with the virus. But he woke up last month & started to wear a mask & spoke of social distancing, wearing masks & washing hands – took him over 4 months to realize that the virus is not going away. And then in a recent article in vos iz neias, that mentioned there will be a huge amount of deaths, Trump adds to that & thinks there will be even more deaths! He is a jerk. But there is not much choice here on who to vote for either. Trump better for Israel & the Jews but Biden will be better I think with the virus, but can be worse for crime as most of the democrat politicians here I think want to defund the police. Anyhow – everyone, for the sake of all of us – start wearing masks! When my sister was in Williamsburg, she remarked NO ONE was wearing masks! When she saw a Chossid also waiting for a bus, she asked him, how come no one is wearing a mask? His response was, they say it’s political! Really? Ok, now Trump is pro-masks until he may change his mind. Are you going to start wearing a mask? I have a question for all of you – how many more deaths do we have to have until people will start wearing masks? Don’t forget all the Rabbonim, Tzaddikim, parents – some with young kids who died during this magefa.

Nachshon
Nachshon
3 years ago

join Monsey and Lakewood where Covid is just a bad dream and has been eradicated from the face of the earth.
There is nothing more troubling then shuls mocking those that practice social distancing and wear masks . There needs to be respect for someone elses fears. To say that anyone that wants to be cautious is wrong is to be someone who has not learned tolerance and achdus.
A popular shul in Monsey refuses to practice safe practices and openly says that anyone who dosen’t like it should daven at home…

hu bacha
hu bacha
3 years ago

” Chaya ” what are you talking about?
if everyone got the virus then how can they get it again????????
you might say that the covid virus mutates or the antibodies are not there anymore? but so far nothing is proven, who said that those people had the virus before? maybe they came in from florida etc?
where are you getting your facts from hamodia? what shaychus? maybe start looking into things that are more factual instead of blaming our people, why doesnt the mayor blame those idiots who were rioting in the streets by the thousands squished like sardines, for them theres a heter to get together, for some reason theres no coronavirus when it comes to them? it looks to me like this mayor is a 100 percent racist and an antisemite. therefore anything he says means zilch to someone with a half a brain. they should kick him out of office and get someone like guliani back it will make a difference in ny

hu bacha
hu bacha
3 years ago

and by the way Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss is an elderly man so for him it makes sense to be a little cautious. but everyone else thats young and healthy should have no problems

binumin
binumin
3 years ago

chaya:
you are 100 percent right , i think the mayor is wrong because its much more then 16.
my brother ans sister in law are in bed with Covid so is 2 of my neighbors. They did not go to this wedding.
Unfortunate our community want to live with NO pressure and no dictatorship so we dont believe the doctors and professionals. Dr. Stuart Ditchik has been posting videos since the start of Covid and warning the community that we are NOT out of this Magyfeh. I hear the same excuse from everyone.
When was the last time Hatzoloh transported a patient because of Covid.?
Being home with 102-103 temperature, coughing, ache in all bones, weak, unable to smell or taste, loss of appetite is NOT enough? Do we really need to see more bodies at Maimonides morgue before we wake up?
I myself dont wear a mask (only in goyishe stores ) but i dont go to weddings, or any large functions, I wash my hands with soap every time some one does manage to shake mine hand and NO mikveh, and social distancing. I dont think we need to go to the extreme but cautious is the rule .
Lets be Mispalel today Yom Kipper Kutten that Hashem should listen to our tefillos and give a cry when you ask Uvini Malkyni, MENA MEGYFUH MINACHLUSECHU.

A Yid
A Yid
3 years ago

One point that hasn’t been discussed is the issur of “aivah”, acting in a way that breeds resentment by the local non jewish population. Even if you don’t believe in masks, since many people do believe they are necessary (and they are legally required in NY ), there is absolutely no heter to walk in public without a mask.

What is occurring in many of our neighborhoods is shameful and contrary to halacha.

Heshy
Heshy
3 years ago

I happen to know the wedding that the mayor is talking about. I will not reveal it because if the mayor allows rioters and looters to rampage he is no tzaddik. Thank G-d for a good president like Donald Trump. How I know which wedding it was because the immediate family plus the chosen and kallah got it. They are ok now. Some out of towner infected the people. Let’s daven to get a new good governor and mayor in the near future. Trump 2020

ponim
ponim
3 years ago

I work full time in a Brooklyn hospital. I was the first person in my department to wear a mask all day. I am also the only person in my department to not get ill.

boro park yid
boro park yid
3 years ago

first of all, the virus was was spread at the wedding by a man from Baltimore. This is confirmed through contact tracing. So obviously, this person from Baltimore was not careful, or he would not have spread it. It has nothing to do with people in boro park being careful or not.
Second, I was in owls head park last sunday. I barely saw goyim wearing masks. There was a huge birthday party going on there. with no social distancing, no masks, food and music. You should have seen it. The police did not break up this gathering. I also saw teens playing and sharing food. And no one is saying anything about all those protests either.
Let me tell you one thing, if anyone tests positive for covid, and gets a call from contact tracing, just tell them you went to all the black lives matter protests. You will see it will not be reported and they will leave you alone.
so stop bashing yiddishe kinder

Pay The Piper
Pay The Piper
3 years ago

Anything this mayor says do the opposite. He has presided over the downfall of New York together with Cuomo. He is busy all day either painting black lives matter or shutting down New york. He has made this city completely unlivable.

chay
chay
3 years ago

as far as walking in public with a mask, by law it is only required when you cannot socially distance. if you are just walking on the street you do not need one. stop making up new rules

Eli
Eli
3 years ago

More people die in car accidents than covid so all you mask wearing sanctimonious snobs, will you stop getting into cars because of safek pikuach nefesh?

Elephant
Elephant
3 years ago

Stop wearing masks it will only kill you

PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
3 years ago

Well, I hope learned from last time.

Emes
Emes
3 years ago

I understand the passion of those people who feel wearing a mask is important. I don’t understand the nastiness of the anti-maskers. They talk like it is insulting to be asked to wear a mask. Covid 19 is the third biggest cause of death in the United States. The national experts say that masks and distancing reduce the transmission rate for the virus. There are some medical non-experts who insist masks and distancing don’t make a difference but why should they have any credibility? Why not do whatever we can to protect our fellow Jews? That is the rational and mentschlich thing to do.

just the facts
just the facts
3 years ago

did anybody wear a mask in 2018 when 80,000 people died and 900,000 hospitalized in America from the flu (and that is a real number not like the inflated covid deaths)

Gersey
Gersey
3 years ago

My rov stated” No need to worry” On Nov 4, 2020 the maakah will be gone or at least we will see it on the way out. As for masks I respond” my wife says you go out you wear a mask”SO: As long as I sleep with her I wear a mask, when YOU sleep with her MAYBE I will not wear a mask. I said maybe. I also advised someone who ridiculed one chosov yid that died from covid, to just repeat himself I am more than willing to grab him by the trachea to show him how that person felt as he gasped for air. He shut up right quick!

PS
PS
3 years ago

The wedding was Munkatch

Demaskio
Demaskio
3 years ago

Deblasio needs 5 masks on his face

Boroch
Boroch
3 years ago

First of all, the worst Mayor in the history of NYC, didn’t utter a peep, when there were thousands of “peaceful” demonstrators in Manhattan a few weeks ago. Those demonstrations and associated rioting went on for weeks, and his Honor never expressed any concerns about Covid-19 transmission. Therefore, why is he only focusing on Boro Park? In addition, he was silent when Jews were being attacked by Blacks in Boro Park, Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Jersey City, and Monsey. He blamed those attacks on neo-Nazis and right wingers. Yet, when he was informed that those attacks were being perpetrated by Blacks, he suddenly went silent.

Also, the person who blamed Trump, because a 65 year old man (a Trump supporter), went to a wedding without a mask, contracted Covid-19 and died, is a fool. Should we also blame Trump for influenza, measles, and the common cold?

Gaon
Gaon
3 years ago

Hu,

Nonsense. Who cares what the mayor or Gov has to say either for yes or no. You need to use your own Torah sense. If there us still any mild safek of Pikuach nefesh and wearing a mask might prevent it, you have the full obligation to wear one.

If the facts are true, and the virus is spreading again (doesn’t matter how and who’s the blame) you need to take every precaution possible.
I will be staying away from weddings and minyan factories (shomer shabbos etc). These are places that you have no idea who is in the crowd.

Wanko
Wanko
3 years ago

You can’t blame Trump for any of this . …. BIDEN , O”BAMA , HILLARY SHMILLARY CLINTON , AND PELOSI SHMEGOSI are the one’s who have caused covid and all the current problems that this nation has !!!!!!