The Unidirectional Commission
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If you haven’t yet read earlier posts about the Haredi Health Coalition, be sure to read that first.
The members of the HHC will be quick to claim that it is always meritorious to facilitate conversation with members in government. Having a rapport with the government allows a forum to express our needs when we need it. However, in this case, the HHC served nothing of the sort. To be sure, the HHC was never intended to be a bidirectional conversation. It was created to use the right messengers to propagate the public health messages from the health department to the Orthodox Jewish Community. When the community itself had valuable information to share or serious issues to be addressed, the handlers at the Health Department were out to lunch. Moreover, the HHC members knew this. If the goal would have been to facilitate healthy conversation, they would be proud of their position. However, this Commission was kept secret. At one point they even expressed their consternation regarding the “importance of members of the Haredi Health Coalition being from the Haredi community - do not want this to be viewed as an extension of DOH.” Such concern is only applicable if they were acting as Kapos on behalf of the health department, not if they were acting in good faith.
Two Cases in Point:
Part I:
Herd Immunity in The Orthodox Jewish Community and the Lack Of a Proportional Public Health Response
In an earlier piece we demonstrated how the Jewish population in the Tri-State area would be a great control arm to measure the impact that the draconian health measures had on the world. We have a community that resisted lockdowns, attended synagogue, and for the most part, never vaccinated. Yet, as noted, in an email to the health department, the infection rate of this community was very low.
In an email with the subject line “Boro Park COVID phenomenon”, a confidant and informant to Dr. Jane Zucker, the head of the NYC Health Department, wrote to her the following:
“Hi Alyssa and Jane,
I hope you’ve both been well. These are tumultuous times.
I wondered whether we might be able to schedule a call to discuss something that may be of interest to the Health Department?
Boro Park, as you know, was hit hard by COVID during the surge in NYC. From mid-March to mid-April we sustained heavy losses and thousands of infections.
Soon after Passover, however, the community stopped social distancing, mask wearing, and isolating. Shuls opened (even on Passover), and by May there were illegal basement classrooms set up, which segued into full school sessions happening in school settings.
For the entire May and June, Boro Park was operating as usual - without any significant new cases, save for some sporadic ones.
Anecdotally, ParCare and ODA, two large medical centers that service the Orthodox community have told me that their COVID antibody rates are in the 60-70% range. I’ve seen their data; it’s fascinating, even when accounting for false positives.
I believe this community should be studied! There is much to learn about COVID, and something unusual (perhaps herd immunity?) seems to be going on.
Let me know if you’d like to discuss this further! I would be happy to help.”
This was Dr. Jane Zucker’s response.
Hi, nice to hear from you. Hope you and your family are well.
We have received this information from various providers in the community. I’ve included Dr. Ackelsberg in this reply as he has been directly involved in these conversations.
Stay safe and take care, Jane
Did the department indeed care to investigate the phenomenon being reported?
A Freedom of Information request was filed to find out more. We requested all records pertaining to the above exchange as well as any study that may have been initiated as a result of this conversation.
What we found:
Crickets.
One would imagine that such a pivotal observation would be front and center surrounding the government response. If the informant's observation is indeed correct, it would mean that the government's actions were hurting untold amounts of people instead of helping them.
Part II
The Murdering of Hospital Patients
Another case in point relates to the wanton murder of patients in hospitals.
On April 2, 2020, Blimi Marcus gave this grim update about the situation in Hospitals on her Facebook.
I have reporters down my back asking me to speak to them about so many different aspects of the COVID pandemic. Journalists who want to share what is happening in hospitals, what it’s like for nurses and providers to be on the front lines of a dangerous infectious killer, who want to understand if we have ventilators and how will we be using or rationing them?
And we are not allowed to speak on threat of termination.
We must come to work, with or without masks, and care for our patients - and we do. Because it’s our calling.
And we have to watch as DNR policies change and patients and families fall apart with the new knowledge that they no longer control their own destiny, and we need to be silent.
Families who haven’t heard from loved ones for days beg us to access charts to update them - but we don’t out of fear of being fired.
The traumas that we are forced to bear witness to and not allowed to tell will be the undoing of everyone on the front line.
The Halacha states clearly that absent a mirsus of some sort, it is assur to be healed by an akum. The fact that the New York Governor gave broad immunity to health care workers and the stopping of visitors to hospitals, made it prohibited to go to a hospital according to Halacha. Since Halacha isn’t only an abstract idea, the results were immediate! Mass carnage and death resulted from these polices, which can be confirmed by anyone who was, or had a family member hospitalized during that period.
This was such a dire topic that it was inserted into the agenda of the HHC.
A peek at the meeting minutes shows a lengthy discussion about antibody testing (by Dr. Joel Ackelsberg) as well as a substantial discussion regarding standard vaccinations during Covid-19 (by Dr. Jane Zucker). Notably absent however, was any reference of discussion of the non-visitation policies at hospitals, the policies responsible for the murders of so many of our brethren.
When listening to a recording of the meeting, a shocking saga is revealed.
While elaborate presentations were prepared for antibody testing and the slowdown of childhood vaccination rates during the height of covid, no presentation was prepared or solutions proposed for the no-visitor policies at hospitals.
After an hour and twenty minutes of prepared discussions, the question was posed by the moderator if anyone wants to say something about the hospital visitation policies.
No prepared discussions, no proposed remedies, only a question if anyone wants to voice concerns.
Some attendees put forth serious concerns and allegations that they had.
The moderator then asked if any of the Health Department Doctors (Drs. Ackelsberg or Zucker) were available to address the concerns. The response?
Crickets!
One of the concerned parties wrote in the chat box “it’s disappointing that the Drs. got off before we can address the issue”.
A deeper dive depicts a different picture. The particular app that was used in the video conference has a login and log off time for each participant. Hence, it can be seen who was on the call at a particular time.
Dr. Ackelsberg stayed on the line long after his presentation was done and listened to Dr. Zucker for approximately a half hour. However, as soon as the moderator announced that they would talk about visitation at hospitals, he promptly hung up.
Worse yet, Dr. Zucker actually was still in attendance, but chose to remain silent.
The same Dr. Zucker who bantered for a half hour about a theoretical future risk of lower childhood vaccination rates was rendered mute and had nothing to add to a conversation about a policy that was killing people every day.
The moderator then sympathized with the inquirer but pointed to the late hour and suggested that they reconvene to talk about it in a couple of weeks after countless more would be dead! Obviously the future threat of measles was more important then people dying every day!
Conclusion:
It is unnerving that we have rabbinical proclamations and even adjustments to Kallah classes not being sourced from within the community, rather being imported via “trusted messengers” at the behest of the Health Department and yet the public has no idea where the force is coming from!
The department of health wants their narrative imposed on us. They have no regard for concerns that we have.
We should reciprocate in kind.
cdc is also interested in killing black people - who should also reciprocate in kind!
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-grants-covid-vaccines-data-communities-of-color/