Never to Forget 2020: The Year the World Stayed Home

Nadene Goldfoot                                             

The Corona Virus has landed on our doorsteps.
It first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into "coronavirus factories" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.

It's happening to all of us on planet Earth.  We're forced to stay indoors in our homes because of the pandemic of the Corona Virus.  For us, it started in December.  

We've known about such a virus since 1965 which was like a cold, but how did SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, come into being? MERS and SARS are other bad ones.  Here’s what we know about the virus that was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and has set off a global pandemic.                                                    

New Yorkers are in their homes; only the essential go to work and keep
at a distance; from 6 feet to 10 feet

 

Even Israel, where so many scientific medical discoveries come from was taken by surprise and was hit hard as so many in this tiny 8,000 to 10,000 square mile state live in high-rise apartment buildings.  Especially hit hard was Mea Sharim, a very orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.  

"As of April 3rd,  7,030 Israelis have so far tested positive for the coronavirus; Thirty-eight people have died, 115 are in serious condition and 95 are on life support. One Israeli tourist died in Italy. So far, 357 have recovered.
                                                                          

Police have set up cordons around roads leading in and out of Bnei Brak

The number of coronavirus cases in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, de facto a neighborhood of Tel Aviv, has jumped to over 1,000 on Friday. The rate of the increase has slowed down, however: as compared to the previous days’ 25 percent hikes, the number of cases grew by a mere 14 percent on Friday.  "An ultra-Orthodox Jewish town with one of the highest rates of coronavirus cases in Israel has been placed under effective lockdown.

The overall number of patients grew to 1,030 from 900 the previous day. Meanwhile, the number of cases has also grown significantly in Kokhav HaShahar (to a total of 11), Tiberias (84), Safed, Kochav Yaakov (31) and Modiin elite (97). (Aaron Rabinowitz)."  Is has been reported to be slowing down overall.  
                                                     

"Mea Shearim (Hebrew: מאה שערים, lit. "hundred gates"; contextually "a hundred fold") is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem. It is populated by Haredi Jews, and was built by members of the Old Yishuv. The oldest Sephardic Haredi dynasty, Levi Kahana of Spain, has a religious cultural center in the neighborhood."
                                                      

Ambulance in Mea Shearim to pick up someone
who has the Corona Virus
This is one of several ultra orthodox communities in Israel.
People who have depended on their religion to keep them healthy
and safe, now have to depend on the scientists as well,
and follow a world-wide adaption of isolation; meaning
to stay home and not to contaminate anyone.
The problem is that healthy people may be carriers and can
give the virus to others with more delicate immune systems.
The world's economics are being destroyed; hopefully-
only temporarily.  

Chasing down the carrier of the Corona Virus

This carrier left home against orders. 

"Modesty" posters in Hebrew and English are hung at every entrance to Mea Shearim. When visiting the neighborhood, women and girls are urged to wear what is deemed to be modest dress (knee-length skirts or longer, no plunging necklines or midriff tops, no sleeveless blouses or bare shoulders), men and boys are urged to avoid wearing shorts and sleeveless shirts, tourists are requested not to arrive in large, conspicuous groups and in some of the older signs even non-jews are requested to wear Kippahs. During Shabbat (from Friday night at sundown to Saturday night at sundown), visitors are asked to refrain from smoking, photography, driving or using mobile phones. When entering synagogues, men are asked to cover their heads.

Update for Israel who has 173 deaths from the Corona Virus with 13,654 who have the virus and 3,872 who have recovered.  

LocationConfirmedRecoveredDeaths

Israel	13,654	3,872	173
United States	775,846	70,606	41,302
Spain	200,210	80,587	20,852
Italy	181,228	47,055	24,114
Germany	146,286	83,438	4,676
United Kingdom	124,743	-	16,509
France	112,606	36,578	19,718
Turkey	86,306	11,976	2,017

Israel

13,654

3,872

173

United States

775,846

70,606

41,302

Spain

200,210

80,587

20,852

Italy

181,228

47,055

24,114

Germany

146,286

83,438

4,676

United Kingdom

124,743

-

16,509

France

112,606

36,578

19,718

Turkey

86,306

11,976

2,017

Strict laws of keeping someone who has the virus and must be isolated have to be obeyed everywhere.  It's very hard on this neighborhood.  It's hard on all of us everywhere but oh so necessary.  What I find hard is to talk to anyone and keep even 3 feet part.  We don't do this normally.  My walking cane is about 3 feet long.  Imagine a 6 foot distance that is now deemed too close, so we need 10 feet apart.  Thus:  isolation.  

Some people are demonstrating to toss out the rule now, when we haven't even all reached the peak nor have had all people tested.  The total population out of bed might just all be carriers to each other!!  Because we've been living with THE FLU which we get inoculated against each year, and have been living with that, they think we should take our chances; after all, it's just the flu.
                                                        

Ramallah, empty streets 

The state of Palestine, and I don't know who this is, whether it's Judea and Samaria (West Bank) or Gaza, report today that they have 449 with the virus, 3 deaths and 71 have recovered.  
                                                   

Corona Virus victims in hospital with ventilators 

This is not just any old flu.  This is the worst and destroys the internal body after one has had it as best it can.  It is the most highly infectious.  It is indeed one of the worst calamities that could befall this world population.  To top it off, all three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam feel we are living at a time of the end of times when things are really about to happen-like a big-time-war.  Add nuclear capabilities to the mix and it's so probable.  Well, now we have this to add to our fears.  Science can defend us and science can destroy us.  We are living in a totally scientific world of cell phones, computers, and getting everything we want immediately.  We don't like to wait for anything;  thus the NOW generation demonstrating to get back to work or the politics of needing people to work for the economy.  

Resource:https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/coronavirus-israeli-health-minister-netanyahu-mossad-chief-quarantine-1.8720108

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_Shearim

https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-history#1-3

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51214864
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/state-of-palestine/

Qaradawi of Qatar: and His Fatwa Against His Own Backsliders

Nadene Goldfoot
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a host with his own show on Al-Jazeera, now available in the USA through our dear ex-Vice President, Al Gore.  He's the Sunni religious leader that Sadat kicked out of Egypt, where he was born.

Qaradawi has long wanted to kill all Jews and would do it himself if he had the opportunity, so he's put out a fatwa against us all, especially those in Israel, of course.  His problem of being wheel-chair bound makes killing a little hard these days.  He hasn't made any distinction between Jewish men or women, so we're all in the same boat.

His views are most extreme which is why he wasn't welcome with Sadat.  He's not a man teaching people to be kind or to love mankind.  Instead, this 86 year old Machiavellian, the spiritual and intellectual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, also  has terrible views about women and  homosexuals along with us Jews.  He supports wife beating, Palestinian suicide bombers and the killing ofboth  homosexuals and  Jews.

To him, beating a wife, however, should only be a last resort, though beaten only lightly.   I'm sure that would work on some of our American wife beaters who have temper management problems.  What does "lightly" mean?  It means he may use his hands but not to hit her in the face or other sensitive areas.  This happens to a wife if she has been disobedient to her husband.  If she went out immodestly dressed without her body- covering Burka, or Burqa, she is asking to be raped.    So he said in 2004, "To be absolved from guilt, raped women must have shown some sort of good conduct-probably meaning that she was concealed in her covering at the time.  He's not the only one.  "A fatwa, written by Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid on the Saudi Arabian website Islam QA, states:

The correct view as indicated by the evidence is that the woman's face is 'awrah which must be covered. It is the most tempting part of her body, because what people look at most is the face, so the face is the greatest 'awrah of a woman.  

So what happens to her is she isn't absolved of guilt?  She most likely is killed.  Usually the covering is all black, and the Middle East is very hot.  I feel so sorry for them for having to sweat under all that.  .

We Jews have Mea Shearim, the very orthodox section in Jerusalem with Haredi Jews who also believe in being modest and covering certain parts of the body. Qaradawi makes our rabbis look like very liberal men.   A married orthodox woman anywhere in Israel will cover her hair either with a scarf  or a tasteful wig and wear a dress that covers her upper arms down to just below her elbow.  Some Muslim women there belonging to a different sect, and will wear white scarves over their hair.  For this Jewish group, it is the men who dress in black suits as seen in Mea Shearim.  Jewish women would never ever stand being beaten or slapped around.  We feel we are either princesses or queens.  Women rule!  Men had better watch their p's and q's. Jewish women go into the army (IDF) and many become sergeants, directing the men.  They can fly planes, too, but our leaders are discussing that they don't want them to crash as they would be treated differently than men if taken alive.  At least they're using their noodle about us.

Homosexuals should be punished by burning or stoning, Qaradawi states.    He realizes that some people will regard this as being cruel, but to him people must "maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements."  This is like the shades of the Salem witch-hunts.

In 2009 on Al-Jazeera, he said "Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people.  Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them...Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."  If Allah can't do his bidding, he has endorsed suicide bombers to do the dirty deed,  which he asked for in 2005 on a BBC interview.  He thinks this kind of martyrdom is evidence of G-d's justice.  He is indeed meshugana.  He even likes to use women as the bombers.  In 2004 he said that the committed Muslim women in Palestine have the right to participate and have their own role in jihad and to attain martyrdom.  I wonder if they are rewarded with 72 virginal men.  Now they won't be any reward.

It was bad enough when Al-Jazeera was broadcasting out of Qatar and universities here were picking it up, but now that Al Gore sold their TV company to Al-Jazeera , this sale turns out to be  traitorous to the only Democratic country in the Middle East, Israel.  It's chilling to hear that Gore's goals are the same as Al-Jazeera, which are the goals he was developing on his own TV station known as Current as demonstrated with very leftist politicians such as Keith Olbermann, Joy Behar, Elio Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm.  He refused to sell to rightist  Glenn Beck, so money wasn't  the only consideration.   So now Gore has a really hateful messenger to carry on.  I believe in "freedom of speech, " but this is religious hatred.  Where are our courts on this?  Al-Jazeera is promoting the act of killing!

Resource; http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frank-crimi/al-jazeera-star-death-to-apostates/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_Shearim