Lakewood Mosdos: If We Don’t Test, the Governor Will Shut Us Down

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy released a “Road to Recovery” plan in June as a guide for the opening of the State of New Jersey during the Covid-19 period. In that plan there were clear benchmarks with regards to what warrants shutting down schools and businesses. The benchmark that determines if a community is in a “pandemic” phase is when 20% of tests taken, produce positive results. Lakewood, NJ was at 29% before Yom Tov. The governor’s office was contemplating closing down Lakewood and reached out to the askanim in Lakewood.

In response to this, the Igud Rabbonim and Igud Mosdos in Lakewood sent out a message asking everyone without symptoms to test. This had the intended results and brought the rate down to 14% by Isru Chag. This was enough of a change that the governor backed off and was willing to allow the mosdos to stay open. However, the Health Commissioner made it clear that this is contingent on an ongoing effort to test students. They delivered 20,000 tests to Lakewood after Yom Tov to help assist with the testing efforts. Matzav.com was told that the rate continues to drop rapidly, as expected.

Bikur Cholim and Chemed are both recognized by the state as valid testing agents. Bikur Cholim uses a company called Vault medical Services. Chemed does not administer a saliva test, which is why many yeshivos have opted to go with Bikur Cholim.

By law, Matzav.com was told by askanim, Governor Murphy had the power to close down the Lakewood mosdos before Yom Tov but chose not to copy his New York counterpart, Governor Andrew Cuomo, thanks to a with him relationship cultivated by hardworking askanim.

“In summation, if we do not comply with their request to test, they will shut us down so long as there are positive cases in Lakewood,” an askan told Matzav.com.

In the past week since Yom Tov, there have been approximately 500 positive cases in Lakewood. This was a result of symptomatic people who have been going to doctors. While this number is lower than it was during Yom Tov, it is still high enough to warrant government intervention. It is hoped – and expected, according to activists who Matzav.com spoke to – that the positivity rate will continue to decline in Lakewood and mosdos will remain open.

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19 COMMENTS

  1. BS”D
    It is a reason to rejoice that so many in Lakewood test positive. That means they will soon be immune and unable to transmit covid to those at high risk.
    Too bad your doctors promote the false covid narrative.

    • Unfortunately, there have been a large number of young healthy people in Lakewood who have been hospitalized in the last month. Many of them with severe symptoms. The side effects of having a severe case of COVID goes well beyond the point of discharge from the hospital, with some people suffering serious damage from blood clots caused by COVID. There have even been people who have had aneurisms weeks after they were released from the hospital that were linked to COVID.

    • Immunity does not necessarily provide the protection that people think it does.
      When your body has antibodies and you contract the virus a second time, the antibodies will fight off the virus more easily based on the existing antibodies. That does not mean you aren’t contagious while you are fighting it off.
      And since the Coronavirus is contagious pre-symptomatically you can’t know if you are contagious or not.
      This nothing to do with a narrative, and everything to do with remaining open in a safe manner while we wait for this pandemic to pass.

  2. Smith is not too crazy after all. This this is despite what shnall wants to say.

    The article is incorrect. It said the governor was able to shut down schools. That’s not true. By the time this is all said and done, especially if we BEH keep the right thinking kind of people as judges, many of the power grabs of Governor Murphy and Governor Cuomo will be deemed unconstitutional.

    All we did was just say yes go ahead take away our rights.

  3. Please be aware, Ocean County identified and approved financially for 7 locations to be used as FORCED Covid Quarantine locations , meaning at DOH will they can force positive residents into their “jails” not a place for nice Jewish boys or girls.
    so before you read and follow rhetoric, realize what registered positive results can bring r”l.

    • Please cite evidence of this stupid conspiracy theory before you just throw this out there. While I’m no fan of Murphy and government in general and while I thought the best thing to do here was to halt testing completely apparently that’s not feasible. Because your always gonna have some people testing for whatever reason. So the positivity rate will be through the roof. Hence the recommendation for everyone to test to get more negatives. And it worked so far so we can’t argue with the results

  4. if you must test (think through all the ramifications very carefully before doing so), the spit test is much more accurate. The Nasal test is known to return many FALSE positives.

    • I have a friend who booked an appointment for a Corona test but couldn’t attend, a day later he received a text message that his results are POSITIVE, seriously
      NISHT DU VER ES ZUL LACHIN

    • Is that true? I’ll take any simple test to test for Covid. I will not have a qtip stuck all the way up my nose. Way back, I took a saliva test, where you just rub your gums with a swab but I was never given the results. I’ll even take a blood test, but no projectile going up my nose. I’m thr squirmy type.

    • Whoever’s bringing these comments, please do not listen to this person. he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.
      If you need medical advice, call your doctor!

  5. BS”D
    Thank you Joey for posting about the FORCED covid quarantine sites.
    Maybe you will be believed.
    I don’t think I was. People were polite but……..

  6. Joey,

    You are implying that the State/County has a plot to force yidden into detention centers with COVID as the excuse. Mordern day Cantonists. Though the government is far from perfect, it is highly incredulous to believe that that is the course of action they plan on taking at this time.

    This article’s main point is “In that plan [from June] there were clear benchmarks…” Do you think the politicians were so smart to plant this 20% rule, then knowingly reintroduce COVID to Lakewood by having undercover agents dance by chasunas, just in time for it to spike before Yomim Noroim so they could have a real good recipe to round up more Jews!? I don’t think they had such foresight; they are just frustrated that Lakewood is making the news.

    An unrelated question; Are you an anti-vaxxer?

  7. Please explain why the paper asks parents to sign that Vault, their Doctors & other personnel can test & TREAT their children?? What happened to the family doctor? WHy wouldn’t parents want to be in charge of what their children are given if they test positive??

  8. Our establishment gets another Darwin Award for stupid strategy. It’s much easier to declare that decision to test is strictly a family doctor matter, and the schools are not going to test nor require to test, hence state has no concrete reason to shut down the schools, regardless of threats – stated and implied. As opposed to mass testing, and therefore, almost guaranteed, dozens of new asymptomatic cases(which, by the way, are not endangering 99.9% percent of the population; how do I know? – there’s been 0 covid19 fatalities in Lakewood for the last 4 months), which will give Murphy a solid excuse to shut down not just the schools, but the entire community. Basically, it’s a choice between making Murphy angry but without tools to shut us down, or “appeasing” Murphy by handing him a weapon to be used against us. Corona testing doesn’t benefit you in any way: your medical treatment won’t change, and as far preventing the spread to the vulnerable, you should exercise extreme caution when you may have reasons to suspect you are infected – regardless of the test. Meanwhile, you are playing another round of Russian Roulette with providing the governmental fascists a solid excuse to shut down the entire community. Don’t be stupid – don’t test.

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