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[Starver]

(Couldn't see any graphs at all. I got three red hover-over announcements "Por favor... [something that looked like it was about network problems...]" that may have been a rather aggressive form of error message about why I saw no in-article images.)

BBC had an article about the choice to go for a new national lockdown in Israel, yesterday. And "Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman, who leads an ultra-Orthodox Jewish party, said the measures would prevent Jewish people from celebrating their religious festivals, including Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, on 27 September." He resigned and threatened to break-up the coalition over this.

It's possible that initial lockdown measures were forced open again too soon by this side of the coalition, perhaps? I'm not sure it was Yom Kipur levels of "want" to be opened back up (like there's going to be a lot of grumbling if anyone's Christmas is to be spent underocal lockdown, over here, but probably far more so in the secular sphere if I'm any judge) but it sounds like they've got a political lever firmly under the lid-rim of the huge can of worms this appears to be...

[hector13]

The shape of that graph looks eerily similar to the Wisconsin graph.

[ChairmanPoo]

The article is more about how rhe Isrslir govt wants another lockdown and 50% of the ultraorthodox community are up in arms about that

[hector13]

Yeah, apparently keeping people from getting sick is less important than getting everyone together to get them sick in the name of tradition.

[ChairmanPoo]

Yeah, apparently keeping people from getting sick is less important than getting everyone together to get them sick in the name of tradition.

Tradition!

[Reelya]

BTW Trump is on video saying that the way to beat Covid is to develop "herd mentality".

[delphonso]

wake up sheeple

[Starver]

It's just word-soup, aint it? He's historically heard of "herd immunity" and now happens to have hewn from whole-cloth a wholly hateful harangue, whereupon his hollering hordes (who habitually hold hoardings against heeding unhued headlines as even halfway-honourable, which is hardly holistic, honourable or helpful) hie themselves and a host of others, hot-foot, on an unhealthy highway to hell.

[MCreeper]

It's just word-soup, aint it? He's historically heard of "herd immunity" and now happens to have hewn from whole-cloth a wholly hateful harangue, whereupon his hollering hordes (who habitually hold hoardings against heeding unhued headlines as even halfway-honourable, which is hardly holistic, honourable or helpful) hie themselves and a host of others, hot-foot, on an unhealthy highway to hell.

THAT's a word-soup.

[Starver]

I prefer to think of it as a consommé... (But it probably looks like a stew.)

[martinuzz]

Haute cuisine

[gamer31]

I think it is crazy how people cannot accept the severity of the pandemic. I mean, if you look at the data given, it is so obvious that we should be careful and look after each other. Instead, some people are just so stubborn and see wearing a mask as a violation of rights.

[Zangi]

Crazy how people so readily turn a blind eye to nearly 200k deaths.
But the same people were up in arms over a few Ebola deaths under Obama’s administration.

[Starver]

You can't make it up (although someone almost did)...

It seems that, because of COVID, Ripdorf got ripped-off by Holdenstedt not holding-back.

[forumist]

Was this shared here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913 ?

TLDR: Wearing masks seems to decrease the severity of the disease for those infected despite wearing the mask.
This might help populations acquire at least some partial immunity ((me commenting:) with lesser risks than letting everyone contaminate oneself happily in foolish COVID parties, and without having to rely too much on much-talked-about-but-not-yet-available vaccines).