The worst year ever, right? Despite Covid, riots and racial strife a record 56% of Americans say they are better off now than they were in 2016

 The majority of Americans say they are better off now than they were in 2016 when Barack Obama was in office.

The new Gallup poll found 56 per cent of registered voters believe they are better off now, the highest figures on record.

Only 32 per cent said they were worse off now, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which has cost many their jobs and businesses, and protests over racial injustice.

In 2012 under Obama, 45 per cent of voters said they were better off than four years previously, while George W. Bush boasted figures of 47 per cent in 2004.

In 1992, under George H.W. Bush, only 38 per cent of voters said they were better off, while in 1984, Ronald Reagan had figures of 44 per cent. 

The poll was started after Reagan asked Americans if they think they were better off than they were before his presidency, and is often seen as a key standard for sitting presidents.

But Joe Biden quickly dismissed the findings, saying the voters must have problems with their memory.

The Democratic presidential nominee said he was surprised by the results of the poll.

He was asked by Cincinnati's WKRC: 'Why should people who feel that they're better off today under a Trump administration vote for you?'

Biden responded: 'Well if they think that, they probably shouldn't.'

Then, citing the poll incorrectly, he added: 'They think- 54 per cent of the American people believe they're better off economically today than they were under our administration? Well, their memory is not very good, quite frankly.

'And in addition to that, we have a president who doesn't share the values of most Americans. 

'He's not very honest with people. He's flouting the conventions relative to public safety in terms of even now, not wearing a mask, a guy who has been a super spreader. 

'But look, whatever they believe they should go out and vote. People should vote. Period.'

Unsurprisingly, Trump seized on the findings, tweeting that the poll was 'incredible'.

He said: '56% of you say that you are better off today, during a pandemic, than you were four years ago (OBiden). Highest number on record! Pretty amazing!'

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Uh OH!!!! Secret emails between Hunter and Burisma adviser show Joe DID meet his son's Ukraine business contacts

 

Hunter Biden introduced his father Joe to an adviser at his Ukrainian gas firm before the then-vice president lobbied for the firing of a prosecutor who was investigating the company, a trove of emails has revealed. 

Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015, according to the stash of data given to the New York Post by Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. 

A year later, Joe Biden successfully pushed for the prosecutor's removal, amid concerns at his failure to tackle corruption which were shared by other countries. 

The files also show Hunter repeatedly referring to his father as 'my guy' while writing to a colleague at Burisma.  

The collection of messages and images were recovered on a MacBook Pro laptop that was brought into a Delaware computer shop and never picked up. 

They shed new light on the younger Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, which were at the center of the Trump impeachment probe and which the president has repeatedly tried to use against the Democratic nominee.  

Joe Biden has previously said he never speaks to his son about his overseas business dealings. Other material in the cache is said to include sexually explicit images of Hunter, and footage of him smoking drugs while engaged in a sex act with a woman. 

Hunter, 50, has admitted to cocaine use in the past and received an administrative discharge from the US Navy reserve for that reason in 2014.  

The trove of files was given to the Post by Giuliani after the computer store owner gave one copy to the FBI and kept hold of another. 

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Supreme Court Slaps Democrats That Filed a Lawsuit Against Trump

 

The Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats that accused President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings.

The justices refused to hear an appeal by 215 Senate and House of Representatives Democrats of a lower court ruling that found that the lawmakers lacked the necessary legal standing to bring the case that focused on the Republican president’s ownership of the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

The lawmakers accused Trump of violating the Constitution’s rarely tested “emoluments” clauses that bar presidents from taking gifts or payments from foreign and state governments without congressional approval. The lead plaintiff in the case is U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.

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Jews Never Learn ..... 70% of Jews Plan to Vote for Biden, Pew study finds

 

The Jewish vote in the upcoming presidential election should be very close to the way it has been split since 2012, a new study by the Pew Research Center found.

The survey, conducted earlier this month and published Tuesday, found that 70% of American Jews plan to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, while 27% plan to vote for President Donald Trump.

If those numbers bear out, they will be nearly identical to the Jewish result in 2016, when Pew found that Hillary Clinton won 71% of the Jewish vote to Trump’s 25%. In 2012, the numbers were slightly higher for the Republican candidate: Barack Obama won 69% of the Jewish vote while Mitt Romney won 30%.

The margin of error for Jewish respondents on the Pew survey is quite large, at 9.6%, which means that the result is statistically similar to the Jewish vote in previous elections.

The poll is a blow to Jewish Republican hopes that Trump’s record in office — including recognizing Israeli territorial claims, brokering peace between Israel and two Arab states and pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement — could shift the vote in his favor.

The Pew poll also found that 35% of Jewish Americans approve of the job Trump has done in office, similar to his 38% approval rating among Americans overall.

Overall, Pew found that 52% of Americans overall prefer Biden while 42% prefer Trump. Most white Christians, including the vast majority of white evangelicals, support Trump.

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Kiryas Yoel Hard-hit by Coronavirus 30 People Are Currently Hospitalized, with 9 in Critical Condition.

A renewed outbreak of coronavirus in the haredi city of Kiryas Yoel in the United States, home to a large community of Satmar Hassidim, is hitting the residents much harder this time around as compared to during the so-called “first wave” of the coronavirus, Kikar Hashabbat reports.

Figures published by the “Vechai Bahem” organization (that was established in Kiryas Yoel specifically in order to deal with the coronavirus threat) show that as of Tuesday of this week, 46 people were hospitalized with coronavirus, with nine of them in critical condition. 16 of them were subsequently able to be sent home after their conditions improved sufficiently.

As such, there are 30 people from the Kiryas Yoel community alone in hospital, with another 41 being treated with oxygen at home who are not currently in need of hospitalization

One of those in critical condition is the head of the local Satmar community, R’ Meir Zelig Riesfeler, whose condition recently took a sharp turn for the worse.

The community asks people to recite Tehillim for the recovery of the sick, and to pray especially for R’ Meir Zelig ben Esther.

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Associated Press Profiles Rabbi Avrohom Pinter Who Died Saving Others From Covid

Rabbi Avrohom Pinter gave his life to save his neighbors.

When the British government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, Pinter went door-to-door in northeast London to deliver the public health warning to the ultra-Orthodox Jews in his community. Within days, the 71-year-old rabbi had caught COVID-19 and died.

His sacrifice was just the last chapter of a life spent forging links between the often-isolated community in Stamford Hill and wider British society, whether by working with an Anglican priest to build a community center or visiting the local mosque to grieve when a gunman killed 51 Muslims in New Zealand.

“He served as a bridge in a broader sense,″ said Chaya Spitz, a protege of Pinter’s and CEO of an umbrella organization for Orthodox Jewish charities. “What he did around COVID was typical of his approach more generally.”

The path to becoming a rabbi respected by non-Jews wasn’t easy for a man who grew up in Stamford Hill in the 1950s and ’60s.

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52% Of Older Israeli COVID Patients Are Chareidi

 The Chareidi advocacy headquarters of Israel’s Health Ministry published data on Tuesday morning showing that 52% of coronavirus patients over 65 are Chareidi despite the fact that the Chareidi sector accounts for only 12% of Israel’s population.

Health Ministry officials believe that a large number of the Chareidi patients contracted the coronavirus during the Yamim Noramim tefillos.

“This is startling data,” the Health Ministry stated. “The Chareidi population accounts for only 12% of the population and the percentage of adults over 65 is only a few percent.”

The Health Ministry’s Chareidi advocacy headquarters stated:

 “The data reveals a reality contrary to the widespread feeling that older people are being very cautious and young people are protecting themselves out of fear of infecting the older adults in their families. The statistics speak for themselves and should be of particular concern to our community.”

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Bnei Brak Robbery Caught on Camera

 Must be an inside job and was hired , as he knew exactly where to go once he broke in and exactly where it was what he wanted, and took only the item the he broke in for...surprised he missed the cameras.... 

I predict that he will be cooling his heals in the slammer come shabbos!

 

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Anti-Natanyahu Protester Complains That The Protest Organizers Promised to Pay Him but Never Did!

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New Skver "takanas" If You Want to Be a Shliach Tzibber

 

To take our our minds off the virus and politics ....

I decided to post a Skverer edict or "takana"in reference vis a vis a "shliach tzibber."

If a guy is a "chiuv" and needs to daven as a "shliach tzibber," he will have a problem taking advantage of the many Skverer minyanim in New Square ....

No it's not talking about wearing a mask, chas ve'sholom, or social distancing G-d forbid ...... naaaaaa!

The following szlubs cannot and should not approach as a "Shliach tzibber" even if his father was murdered "al kiddush Hashem" :

1. If you trim your beard.

2. You must dunk into the mikva that very day.

3. You must wear a "gartel' but it cannot be from the same material of the clothes that you wear

4. You don't have any smartphone, computer, tablet that doesn't have a filter

5. If you use social media, such as whatsapp (without a filter), twitter, instagram etc

So that's it ...

I find number 3 very funny ..... that the "gartel" must be from a different material .....

so if a guy fits all the criteria ... he never trims his beard, dunks that day in the mikva, has filters on his phone, computers, and has no social media ....

but......  his gartel is of the same material as his 'lange rekel" he cannot daven as "shliach tzibber" in New Square ...

 This "modern guy" that fits all the above criteria... except for his "gartel".. that is made of the same material as his shirt,  will now be asked to step aside and be categorized as an "oif'ge'klerteer" 

מי כעמך ישראל

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DemocRATS Try to Smear Amy Barrett ..... But She Calmly Destroys Them Without Any Notes!

by Michael Goodwin

 They came, they questioned and they got nothing. It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Democrats. Almost.

With a history of vicious misbehavior and the political calendar limiting their ability to smear Amy Coney Barrett, Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee were reduced to being annoying nags and finger-wagging scolds. They were never going to vote for any Supreme Court nominee of President Trump’s to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but they don’t even have the option of giving Barrett the Brett Kavanaugh 2.0 treatment.

Another character-assassination attempt of the kind visited on Kavanaugh two years ago — now Justice Kavanaugh — would have been risky business so close to the election, so it was politics, not decency, that stayed their bloody hands. Make no mistake, though, if they could have, the Dems would have trashed Barrett as too religious and too conservative and done everything they could short of setting the building on fire to stop her from joining the high court before the election.

As it was, they spent their time during the first day of questioning largely trying to trip her up and get her to make statements they could use as campaign fodder against Trump and the GOP. Their fallback position was to lay the groundwork for getting Barrett to recuse herself in important upcoming cases, especially the challenge to ObamaCare the court is scheduled to hear beginning Nov. 10.

They also fumed and sputtered about the possibility that the court might be called on to make key ballot rulings after the election and hoped she would not participate. No luck. They all struck out.

Their basic problem is that Barrett came across as an appealing Superwoman. Flanked by her husband, six of their seven children and her six siblings, she was flawless in answering those questions she could and in politely sidestepping the traps.

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Pelosi in a Total Meltdown Gets Unhinged When Wolf Blitzer Asks Her Why She Won't Negotiate on the Stimulus Package

 

Listen to the old witch say that there isn't enough "money for the airlines" in the 1.8 trillion package ... this while Americans are starving....

The funniest part is when she calls Blitzer  a "GOP apologist'

I have to say that Wolf Blitzer did a pretty good job ...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi  accused CNN host Wolf Blitzer of being a 'Republican apologist' as she went into meltdown in a heated live interview Tuesday over a COVID-19 relief package. 

Blitzer pushed Pelosi as to why fellow Democrats are calling on her to accept the $1.8trillion deal presented last week if it is not adequate. He noted that former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and fellow California Democrat Ro Khanna had called on her to accept the deal. 

She hit back that Blitzer and others on her party did not know what they are talking about and are not negotiating the package. 

Pelosi has become increasingly isolated as other Democrats insist she come to a compromise on the relief bill before election day but talks look to have reached a standstill as the Speaker refused to budge.

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Must Watch: Ted Cruz Crushes Democrats at the Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett Hearings

 

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Fascinating .... Trump's Road to the White House (full film) | FRONTLINE

Take a bag of popcorn and enjoy! 

Watch how reporters still believe that Putin owns Trump!

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Just When You Think You Heard It All ... Comes Another Theory About the Covid Vaccine

 

I lost her when she said that the Covid-19 vaccine will have "metal parts put in as an antenna for the new 5G technology" ........ 

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It is Orthodox Jew vs. Orthodox Jew in New York - and all Jews lose

by Cindy Grosz

Since September, I am aware of two major newsworthy events that scare me. I see a pattern of Jew vs Jew. Worse, it’s Orthodox fighting other Orthodox. Non religious Jews and anti-Semites are witnessing this and many seem to be enjoying it.

A Local Race

For years, I have shared vital information about why Jews of all religious affiliations, financial situations and neighborhoods must educate themselves about registering to vote in both major parties. Part of the registration process is educating oneself about all candidates, including school boards and judges.

In September, in the Five Towns, a race took place for the positions of mayor and trustees in Lawrence, one of The Five Towns. All of the candidates were religious. These races became nasty, with accusations of voter fraud and a lawsuit filed and later dropped. The worst was that the eventual losers of the race were consulted by some “questionable” political consultants. One is currently going through a trial. John Novello was indicted on 11 charges related to the alleged theft of $60,000 from bank accounts belonging to the Cedarhurst Republican Committee. These charges include grand larceny, petit larceny, and election law violations. Another alleged consultant was Lawrence Deputy Mayor and a Jewish consultant for the New York State GOP, Michael Fragin. Their advice included sending out a letter filled with typos from a fake organization. to potential voters attacking their opponents.

In the end, those who were attacked won with an overwhelming majority. But Orthodox Jews all lost as these vicious attacks played out in public.

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Nevada man becomes first in US to contract coronavirus twice

 

A 25-year-old Nevada man has become the first confirmed case of a person being re-infected with the coronavirus in the US, researchers said Monday.

The patient was infected with two different genetic strains of COVID-19 in less than two months, according to a case study published in the medical journal “The Lancet.”

“The second infection was symptomatically more severe than the first,” the authors of the study wrote.

The man, who had no underlying conditions, originally tested positive for the virus on April 18, and experienced symptoms including headache, coughing, nausea and diarrhea.

He isolated, got better and then tested negative twice in May.

But by the end of that month, the man went to an urgent care center with the same symptoms he’d felt before, plus fever and dizziness.

He tested positive again on June 5.

The patient was admitted to the hospital after suffering shortness of breath and requiring supplemental oxygen. He eventually recovered.

The fact that the man tested negative twice in between bouts with the illness means it’s unlikely he suffered one prolonged infection, according to the study authors.

The researchers said the case indicates that being exposed to the bug previously doesn’t completely guarantee immunity in all cases.

“All individuals, whether previously diagnosed with COVID-19 or not, should take identical precautions to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2,” the scientists wrote.

Previous case studies of similar coronavirus re-infections have been published in Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ecuador.

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Palestinian PM: God help us if Trump wins

Any more questions for who a Jew should vote for? 

 The US voting President Donald Trump out of office is critical for the Palestinians, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday.

“The election is very important. God help us, the EU and the whole world if there are four more years of Trump,” he said.

Shtayyeh spoke out against Trump’s peace plan, presented earlier this year.

“Trump has wasted four years of everyone’s time,” he said. “The ultimate deal was not delivered. [Trump’s plan] was rejected by the Palestinians, the Arabs and Europe…The US is just too biased.”

The PA prime minister lamented Trump’s “unilateral measures,” such as moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Despite his stated opposition to such unilateral moves, Shtayyeh called for Europe to recognize a Palestinian state, saying it will help bring about a two-state solution. He asked for a full association agreement between the EU and the PA to be drawn up in preparation for statehood.

Another one-sided action Shtayyeh opposed was the US cutting aid to the Palestinians.

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Biden Totally Losing it ... Thinks he's running for the Senate..Forgets Mitt Romney's Name .... Tells Voters to go to http://IWill.com/Ohio, which is not a real website.

Joe Biden: "I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate" pic.twitter.com/7LTFdJQMgF

— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 12, 2020

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— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 12, 2020

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Member of the House Introduces Resolution to Remove Crazed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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Rep. Doug Collins on Monday introduced a resolution to push for the removal of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claiming she “does not have the mental fitness” to lead the House of Representatives. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unwillingness to abide by the Constitution, combined with her recent actions, call into question her own mental fitness, which is why it’s critical that the House of Representatives demand her removal from the line of succession,” Collins said in a statement to Fox News.⁣ ⁣ Go to the link in our bio for more on this story.

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18 Die From Covid in Bnei Brak , 3 This Week Alone .... but Chareidim Still Don't Care ...

 

שישה ימים בבני ברק: 18 חולים נפטרו לאחר שנדבקו בנגיף

בעיר התורה והחסידות ממשיכים לספור את קורבנות נגיף הקורונה • בשבוע האחרון הנגיף גבה, בכל יום, את חייהם של שלושה מתושבי העיר • מספר המאושפזים קשה לא יורד, למרות הנפטרים (אנ"ש)

"The city of Torah and Chassidus,  continues to count the victims of Corona. 

In the past week, the virus accelerated on a daily basis, claiming the lives of 3 residents of the city."

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No One Shows At Biden/Harris Campaign Event in Arizona .... Media Silent!

 

Biden and Harris hold a campaign event in Arizona and the local news can’t believe that not one supporter showed up! pic.twitter.com/JKj0fPi6Jj

— David Croom - (ツ) (@dailycallout) October 11, 2020

Give credit to Joe Biden’s security team for doing an amazing job with crowd control at his events! #SleepyJoe #Trump2020LandslideVictory #trump #MAGA pic.twitter.com/4IUdyNHoKS

— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) October 11, 2020

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Who Are the Frum Community Fooling, Who are they Killing?

By MICHA HALPERN 

 When it all began sometime around Purim, we did not understand how deadly this novel virus would be. We couldn’t know. We couldn’t be blamed for not knowing. We didn’t realize that eating together, and singing and dancing together were the easiest ways to transmit this deadly disease. But that was Purim.

By Passover we knew for sure. We were mourning the deaths of our dear family and friends. We were recovering from the virus ourselves.

Seven weeks later, on Shavuot, COVID-19 was still raging. And on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simhat Torah it still raged.

It’s not what we wanted, it’s not what we expected, but it is – as the saying goes – what it is.

So why can’t the Jewish world, the haredi, ultra-Orthodox world in particular, accept this hard truth? Why do some people think that they are different from everyone else?

As Jews, we know how to abide by rules and regulations: Shabbat, kashrut, the 613 commandments we obey on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. How is it that people either don’t realize or don’t care that by flaunting the rules being imposed on us by medical professionals, they are risking their lives, the lives of people about whom they care, even the lives of people whose names they now know but whose lives they have – because of their own selfish and self-serving needs and desires – altered forever.

I’m angry. I’m more than angry. I’m enraged, and I’m embarrassed.

My fellow Jews are rioting. They are burning protective masks, mocking social distancing and fighting with police. And the whole world is watching.

And it’s been going on this entire pandemic. How can such people – the “People of the Book” – not realize that instead of saving lives as we are instructed, they are causing the loss of lives?

Weddings are celebrated and then, about five days later, the parents or grandparents of brides and grooms are testing positive for the virus. They might die. Thousands of people attend a funeral of someone who died from COVID-19, and then hundreds become infected. Again, they might die.

People mourn, sitting shiva – not Zoom shiva but real shiva, where well-wishers enter their homes to share condolences – and the mourners themselves end up sick, hospitalized or dead. A grandmother contracts it from a grandchild. An uncle catches it from a nephew and is admitted to the ICU. It is a deadly cycle.

INCONVENIENCING OURSELVES in order to respect and honor the elderly and those most at risk should not be treated as a burden, it should be treated as a gift. When we have the ability to help save lives, why would people – our people – choose instead to engage in acts that will, ultimately and inevitably, take lives? Why?

The haredi community believes they are being singled out and even persecuted, in the United States as in Israel, because they are different, because they stand out. They are right. They are being singled out. But not for those reasons. They have thrown the health recommendations out the proverbial window and their number of coronavirus cases has skyrocketed. That’s why.

When the number of cases declined in Orlando, Florida – the home of Disney World, “the happiest place on Earth” – until this past week, there has to be a reason. Maybe it’s because it’s Sukkot, and Orlando was the destination of choice for thousands of Jews from haredi communities across the USA.

Do they not see the correlation or can they just not accept the truth?

The riots I am seeing on television and social media, the open disregard for the law of the land, is the stuff of anarchists and hate groups, not the Orthodox Jewish community. The logic is warped. The violence is real.

Synagogues, stores and restaurants in some Orthodox communities are pretending to comply. They are posting large signs on their doors that say “CLOSED,” and in smaller letters, in Hebrew or Yiddish they write, “Use the back door instead,” as if the police don’t know what’s happening. The haredi community might not be fluent in the use of Google Translate, but the police certainly are. And in the end, who are they hurting? Who are they fooling? More importantly, who are they killing? Against whom are they committing the ultimate sin?

Doctors and scientists still do not fully understand this virus, but there are some things they know. They know that avoiding large groups save lives. They know that wearing masks save lives. They know that social distancing saves lives. And they know the importance of hand-washing. It’s not rocket science, but it is science.

Maybe, just maybe – if we all do our best to follow the advice of the health professionals and others who know what they’re talking about – by next Purim we will be able to sing and dance and dine and rejoice with no fear of spreading the virus.

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