THE CURRENT → THE BEAT Issue 853 · March 17, 2021

The Political Pesach Cleaning Guide

Here’s a guide to the tossed, the kept, and the prevaricated in the political world

The Political Pesach Cleaning Guide

 

Similar choices await in the world of politics and current affairs. Multiple election cycles and the twilight of Covid have converged to create a global political Pesach clean. So here’s a guide to the tossed, the kept, and the prevaricated in the political world.


TOSS

 

Andrew Cuomo

The New York governor is toast, and toast is chometz. Let’s just say that like him or not, New York will be in a state of paralysis just when it needs strong leadership as it comes out of the Covid crisis and begins the reopening process. We need a leader who commands respect.


Masks

Israel was one of the first countries to mandate mask-wearing in public, and the most stringent in its application, with police enforcing masking even in open areas.

But with the “R” infection rate at 0.77 in the wake of the successful vaccine campaign, the country’s Health Ministry is clearing out its rule book, and preparing to end the rule.

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