The MSM is catching up on the religious dimension to infection rates:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-religious-festivities-may-have-proved-deadly-to-community-rtvsqkffh
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With big communal events looming for the three major monotheistic religions — Passover begins tonight, Easter is this weekend and Ramadan starts on April 23 — global lockdown measures face a severe test.
The government has published no official statistics to indicate whether there is a greater prevalence of Covid-19 among any religious or ethnic minorities in Britain. However, the British Islamic Medical Association (Bima) has said that British Muslims “have certain characteristics that place us at higher risk than the general population”.
One Jewish doctor suggested that overcrowding in the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods of north London provided conditions “ideal for spreading infection”. Another told The Jewish Chronicle that British Jews were dying at an unprecedented rate.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said that as of Sunday it knew of 115 Covid-19 deaths in the Jewish community, or 2.3 per cent of all UK deaths at the time. Jews make up 0.4 per cent of the UK population.
Yehudis Fletcher, founder of a Jewish counter-extremism think tank, believes that “the very culture that’s normally our biggest strength becomes our biggest weakness during a pandemic like this”.
Ms Fletcher, from Manchester, said: “I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know people who have died. I’ve been following the funerals over Zoom. There’s absolute devastation. Everyone is affected. I wake up every morning and check the family Whatsapp group to make sure there isn’t more bad news.”
Unverified claims have been made that British Muslims are also dying at a disproportionate rate. There is perceived to be a particular vulnerability because many households are home to three generations of the same family.
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There is also concern that government advice restricting social contact was slow to permeate some neighbourhoods. On March 16 the Muslim Council of Britain issued a “strong recommendation for Muslim communities to suspend all congregational activities”. It said: “We all have a public duty to protect one another from harm.”
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Muslim and Jewish groups appear to be at particular risk, but no religious group is exempt if they insist on congregating to worship.
Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum