Can we really trust what the media say about the coronavirus?

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Thank you for this post. There’s a lot of humility in what we don’t know. I suppose that on this one aspect, I don’t fully trust the media; they like to talk down to the public by portraying complex issues as black and white.
 
Thanks,
That was clear and succinct.
May God bless all who are laboring to curtail or limit this virus.
Amen.
 
meltzerboy2 said:
Blaming the poor AND blaming the immigrant (stranger). This is totally against the teaching of Jesus (and against Jewish law as well). Apart from this, it is simply incorrect.
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Jewish law said something about whether immigration contributed to Covid19? ;/

What about travel? Is there something in the Jewish law about that too?
7_Sorrows said:
I think travelling, not immigration, is behind the spread of coronavirus.
All modes of travel, especially airpanes, cruise lines, automobiles crossing countries and oceans.
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Socrates92 said:
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meltzerboy2:
Blaming the poor AND blaming the immigrant (stranger). This is totally against the teaching of Jesus (and against Jewish law as well). Apart from this, it is simply incorrect.
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Jewish law said something about whether immigration contributed to Covid19? ;/

What about travel? Is there something in the Jewish law about that too?
7_Sorrows said:
I think travelling, not immigration, is behind the spread of coronavirus.
All modes of travel, especially airpanes, cruise lines, automobiles crossing countries and oceans.
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Why would Jewish law teach about travel? @Socrates92
 
Yes, there is no end to the intricacies found within Jewish law. At the same time, there are usually alternative options one can choose from based on custom, culture, or rabbinical precedent. Not least, interpretations of passages are often diverse, and one need not choose a single interpretation.
 
As in Catholicism, there need not be specific laws for EVERY occasion (although, reading through rabbinical pronouncements and debates, it often seems there ARE). One might extrapolate a given law and apply it to a situation that fits in the same category.
 
I doubt there are any specific laws about travel by cruise ships, airplanes, trains,
automobiles globally or domestically with regards to spreading an infectious
disease which is the topic and what I was referring to.

Granted, disease can also be spread by immigration which is why many passengers were examined at Ellis Island after disembarking the ships from
Europe, but global travel is so common today with air travel and the cruise lines
also that facilitate the spread of disease or virus.
 
Ahh. Corona virus
Form of the flu intense.
I wear gloves.
Media is crazy zeroing on most vulnerable
I want to see stats of otherwise healthy vs.
immune deficient and vulnerable.
 
Only trust what the medcal experts say. Do not trust what Trump says because they are all lies.
 
Muslims, and especially the Somali people, will get a bader reputation than they already have.
But I pray that we will go to the facts and not something subjective.
 
Some people complained in Korea but it got the job done. The only question is the legality.
 
I tend to trust statements from medical professionals. The reporters however, I don’t.
 
jesusmademe said:
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godisgood77:
This is a false statement…
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According to statistics (for Stockholm, Sweden) we have more percentages of people with covid-19 from places with many immigrants or children of those…
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There is a simple explanation. Immigrants tend to gravitate toward densely-populated cities, which is exactly the kind of place where the coronavirus most easily spreads. The immigrants do not cause the numbers to go higher. It is the population density that does it.
 
jesusmademe said:
Can we really trust what the media (in diffeent countires) say about the coronavirus?
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I don’t think so. I think for the USA this whole thing is overblown and that the extreme measures being taken in the USA were largely unnecessary. And further, these extreme measures could lead to unwelcome economic consequences.
There were 45,000,000 cases of the influenza during the 2017-2018 season and 61,000 deaths. And still they did not shut down the whole country.
 
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AlNg said:
And still they did not shut down the whole country.
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And the whole country is not shut down now. Mail is still being delivered, Amazon is very busy, grocery stores and gas stations are open, hospitals are extremely busy (obviously) to name only a few. Not to mention the people who think it is “overblown” and congregate anyway, only to get sick and add to the load of the hospitals. And many of the same places that are shut down now were shut down then, like theaters and such. And the biggest reason for doing this is to keep the number of deaths below that 61.000 you stated. Isn’t that worth staying home for a while?
 
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