The latest news from California is that the state is allowing hospital staff WITH COVID to keep working, as long as they don't have symptoms. That's right: they can still spread the virus, but as long as they don't have symptoms, they can come to work and... care for vulnerable patients? What is going on here?
Well, there's a huge staff shortage. Some of it is due to the fact that there is so much demand for hospital services; and some of it is part of the overall labor shortage problems; but at least some of it is due to the fact that Governor Gavin Newsom proudly imposed a vaccine mandate on health care workers.
The result is that instead of having a healthy but unvaccinated health care worker treating you, now you could have a COVID-positive health care worker treating you, vaccinated or not. The idea is that they'll only treat COVID-positive patients -- but how do you know? Are they in a quarantined wing?
This is just the latest example of a left-wing policy whose results were predictable. The idea is to encourage vaccination and reduce risk to patients. But do you really do that when you can't afford to lose staff for any reason, and most of them worked for a year without being vaccinated? Yes -- in California.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
