Thread by @OJPAC

“An Orthodox Jewish advocacy group accused @NYGovCuomo of unfairly scapegoating Orthodox communities for rising coronavirus cases, noting that positivity rates also have climbed in upstate counties with no measurable Orthodox populations.”

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”’The tone from the governor is reckless because it leads people to think that Coronavirus is not an issue in their non-Orthodox backyard which may lead to a neglect in following rules,’ read the statement from the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.” recordonline.com/story/news/cor…

BREAKING! Many counties across NY with no measurable Orthodox Jewish communities in it have now very high infection rates:

11.9% Greene

9.6% Yates

7.1% Hamilton

6.1% Chemung

6.0% Cortland

5.9% Schuyler

4.7% Steuben

Orange (2.9%) and Rockland (2.2%) have way lower rates.

It turns out that what @NYGovCuomo said last week Friday - that the clusters are an ultra Orthodox Jewish problem - is false! COVID-19 is clearly a New York problem and a Cuomo problem! Governor, stop scapegoating Jews and alert NY to step up! @melissadderosa @RichAzzopardi

Orange and Rockland (both with large Orthodox Jewish communities) have infection rates in the 2% range but six other counties are also in the 2.0% to 2.9% range. We noticed that we missed above 9.0% in Chautauqua and 3.7% in Broome.

The verbal abuse seen in this video against an Orthodox Jew is on @NYGovCuomo for making Orthodox Jews the target of the rise in COVID-19 across New York.

As for the bigot in the video, you don’t need a mask on an empty sidewalk.

(Beware of language)

This is the bigot who targeted an Orthodox Jew after many days of @NYGovCuomo making Orthodox Jews the focus of the COVID-19 resurgence in New York. Please see the tweets in this thread showing that many NY counties have now very high infection rates despite no Jews there.