The Absurd GOP

[TheWhiteMarten]

Close proximity would be my guess, same issue here in the US and likely most of the world; UOJs tend to live in essentially segregated communities, in places turning just a few blocks into densely packed slums like you would think of in the early 1900s New York - just with a lot more law and order. 

Hotbed for disease; the inbreeding probably doesn't help either...

Which would probably point against them supposedly being less effected by COVID, despite what RFK said.

Ultra Orthodox make up a rough 10-15% of global... Jewry? ... and have significantly different living standards from your average Jew - in America, something like 80%+ are secular Jews and I believe that's pretty consistent amongst the Ashkenazim community globally.

Us Sephardim just learned Spanish, came to the New World and picked up discount Catholicism .

(Jewry apparently is the proper word, but something about that just sounds icky.)