AGUDAH: Governor Cuomo’s surprise mass closure announcement today, and limit of 10 individuals per house of worship in “red zones,” is appalling to all people of religion and good faith. We have been down this path before, when religious practices were targeted for special treatment by the Governor’s Executive Order in May. A suit was filed challenging the Governor’s Order then (in which Agudath Israel filed an amicus brief), and the court found it unconstitutional. Repeating unconstitutional behavior does not make it lawful.
Moreover, it should be made clear that the Governor’s reference to a “good conversation” he had earlier today with a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders was largely a one-way monologue, and contained no mention of this new plan.
Agudath Israel intends to explore all appropriate measures to undo this deeply offensive action.
A final message to our community: We have considerable concerns that Governor Cuomo’s capricious actions will weaken compliance with good health practices. We cannot allow our – perhaps justifiable – anger at government to imperil our neighbors’ health.
STOP VOTING ANTI TORAH DEMOCRAT PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please tell me!! Has your community behaved according to the law and according to accepted health practices? How do you cry foul when so much of what he said is true? Sure he is singling our our community over other groups who are also not taking the mandates seriously- but we have no leg to stand on here! The mandates were laws- we need to listen fully in order to say that a government official is being unfair. And we didn’t – so here we are. Our refusal to do what we were told by our government to do to help mitigate this virus- a mask is not a leg iron!- has gottten is to the point where we can’t honestly protest this injustice. You can’t have it both ways
Please note that the 3% positivity rate of testing which is Seemingly the justification for the new lockdown is just about around the 2% error rate of the test.
We can always resort to seven rounds of peaceful protests this coming Sunday, don’t forget to bring along the flag.
Don’t get it. 6 months ago we fought to close shuls, we didn’t even allow backyard minyan we sent our kids home from school, we yelled at anyone who dared question the “Doctors” so why is Coumo so bad?
@berel, the probability of all the test results being false positive is not 2% of the entire group, it’s a 2% chance for each test.
If each test has a 2% false positive (assume that’s correct) then the probability that an entire set of positive results is false positive is .02 ^ X (where X is the amount of positive test results).
It’s like flipping a coin, each flip has a 50% chance of heads or tails, but if you 2 flips you only have a 25% chance of both flips being heads.
The more tests that are done, the lower the probability of false positives affecting the total percentage of positive results.
In this case, if there are even 10 positive results, the possibility that all of them are false positives is infinitely small (.02*.02*.02…)
There is a 2% chance that at *least one * of them is a false positive, but there is a infinitely small chance that they are *all* false positives.