I had hoped Israel would be smarter about managing Covid. While it has its own special breed of self-hating leftists, it can't quite match the massive political divide or mendacity of the left in the USA, which uses Covid (and paid-for manufactured riots/looting) as a weapon to damage the economy and Trump. I had hoped Israel would lead the way in showing the world a solution in managing the Chinese-engineered pandemic. Instead, the government turned a manageable situation into a dumpster fire.
Let's review the facts. The virus was engineered to be a more easily-spread version of the flu using personal contact and attacking in the vast majority, the same medically vulnerable group as the flu including the elderly, the immune compromised, those in poor health, the obese, diabetics, and those with underlying respiratory problems. Covid hit the Jewish community especially hard for several reasons. Firstly, Jewish communities especially orthodox/observant Jewish communities are fairly dense. Secondly, Jews are socially interconnected and interactive with family, synagogues etc. and not just in their own communities. And many elderly Jews are in nursing homes or skilled nursing facilities where 40-60% of deaths occurred worldwide. Israel's exposure came from three sources. Asian tourists, Israelis coming back from abroad and especially Italy, as well as from the USA. It amounted to a concentrated exposure in a relatively small geographic area. And as we now know, the lethal initiating widespread social event especially in the Litvish and Hareidi communities, was Purim. Israel's response? Much like most of the world. A draconian lockdown with people restricted to within meters of their homes, paralysis of the country, wholesale destruction of the economy, and massive unemployment.
The key mistake was the lockdown. The lockdown solution had never been tried anywhere before and most countries unfortunately were either duped or persuaded to do (especially in the US by people in health policy or political positions with their own agendas) what China (and by "China" I mean the CCP) had done claiming it had been successful in controlling the virus. The CCP lied (and they still do), many people died, both there and abroad that didn't have to. Just like people need exercise to help stay healthy, the immune system needs its exercise by being exposed to everyday pathogens, including viruses to stay stimulated and healthy. Putting whole populations into lockdown was like putting their immunity in bubble wrap and putting it to sleep. When the lockdown was lifted, the exposure risk was exactly the same because no one had a chance to build immunity to Covid. Was it any wonder there was a "spike" in cases?
How anyone could think the lockdown was a good idea just boggles the mind. The key to successfully fighting a pathogen like this is to build sufficient herd immunity in the relatively healthy population while keeping the at risk population isolated. That is the definition of, and a responsible approach to, quarantine, which unfortunately Brazil and Sweden failed to do in their attempt at herd immunity which is why their vulnerable died.
You cannot have the indiscriminate locking down of whole populations causing economic hardship, job loss, depression, and even suicide. This was a disaster driven by media hysteria, as well as massive medical stupidity, ignorance and irresponsibility in managing a pathogen that has a 99%+ recovery rate and where the average age of death is over 75.
I don't blame Bibi because he is not a doctor, nor an epidemiologist. He has to rely on so-called experts in the field to advise him on what to do. It seems they are considering another round of lockdowns. Seems like new experts might be needed.
In 1969 the swine flu outbreak in the USA killed more than 100,000 people. Do you remember the masks, the social distancing, the lockdowns? No? Good, because that didn't happen. What did happen? Perhaps the best herd immunity gathering of all time. It was called Woodstock.
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