mrswdk wrote:jusplay4fun wrote:Many Jews in the NYC area were hit with COVID-19 early on.
Will wait for your evidence that COVID-19 spreading to Israel from the US is due to 'New York City Jews'.
Then once you succeed (5% chance) or fail (95%) in providing any evidence, we can just note that you agreed the US is the vector which spread COVID-19 to Israel. Take that, jim!
Don’t convolute or confuse my comments with JPFun’s.
My comments don’t talk about “New York City Jews”.
My point is simply that the data the study provides is evidence of travel patterns and is useful in tracking the spread of the virus. It doesn’t then take the leap to determine or provide evidence that the US is the “#1 Public Health Menace” as you claim. Your claim based on that evidence is a giant leap in logic that skips several steps. I’m sure you know this so stop playing dumb.
I’m also not going to attempt to lay out a detailed explanation of viral evolution for you, as I would need more time and graphs and can’t be bothered.
I will say, it’s possible that 70% of Israelis are infected by a strain that originated in the US... but these could’ve come from a small number of people early in the epidemic and who were moving a lot in Israel; whereas the remaining 30% could have strains that morphed elsewhere, but these people got infected later after the lockdown occurred and so these people haven’t spread the virus as widely.
Did you actually read the article you posted? It specifically talks about groups arriving from NYC who were not quarantined. They even found one Isreali who signed a document saying he would self-quarantine and had a place to do so; when he didn’t and had no intention to self-quarantine.
Based on the article ITSELF it seems more likely that the spread (in Israel) has a lot more to do with Israel’s response than anything the US did or didn’t do.
