When my wife, an air hostess, returning to Paris, started feeling uncomfortable • I did not think that due to my trip to Spain I would also go into solitary confinement • Although global madness should relax - and obey instructions • The positive side: solitary confinement is only with my wife and children Bonus too - the mother-in-law!
I have written articles from many different points around the world, including Paris, Tripoli, Tehran, Damascus, Washington, Beirut and even Sanaa. This column was written from home, and that's exactly why it was written. The place sometimes dictates both the story and the credit.
The isolation was in the air yesterday. Not the virus, God forbid. My wife, a flight attendant at Air France, where a flight from Paris near midnight and I was uncomfortable. I rang Ran Reznik, our commentator on medical matters, and asked him to see what the guidelines on wives would be. I did not know that the findings would reach me and my children as well.
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A month ago, my senior editors from the paper approached me with a tempting offer that couldn't be denied: PR trip to Madrid, where the icing on the foam is a Champions League game with my Liverpool team. I love Liverpool - my wife and kids more. I bought my favorite bunch of tickets and we went out. Who believed that 12 days after the return, I would still lick the wounds following the embarrassing loss to Athletico, which resulted in two more losses later, and especially isolation.
Half the full glass: The isolation is only until Friday, along with my wife and three children who will give up middle school (Michal), first grade (David) and kindergarten (Naomi). And there's a bonus too - the mother-in-law!
When I wrote the column for the elections on Sunday, I called on the people of Israel to choose, and mainly to decide because of the Corona. The story becomes crazy and global, too, because, as the International Health Agency chairman says, we are on the ground unknown.
The French newspaper "Le Monde" published - this is what my wife found it appropriate to read to me when we went into isolation - that the Spanish influence between 1918 and 1919 eliminated tens of millions of people. We're not there, I explained. Kind of the flu. You need to relax and calm down. The isolates are not sick, they are just responsible people who follow the instructions and guidelines of the Ministry of Health.
Here's a great opportunity to get acquainted with the house. Working as an editor forces you to stay in the system for 25 hours a day. What a fun time to be with the family. The half-full glass.
By the way, my wife, me and my grand daughter are already used to such a situation. I'm two days, she's two weeks - small on us. As an Israeli ambassador to Mauritania, I was in solitary confinement for four years, probably after the attacks and the assassination attempts. Now it's a children's game.
So to reassure the newspaper staff and all my members of the Channel 12 election panel - I feel great and have zero symptoms. Simple warranty and a few days at home. A chance to tidy the closet.
By the way, this isolation seems to have been written from above. On January 12, I returned from Rome. Then I heard of the isolation only to those who returned from the 13th. At the Ionian election studio, I was very pressed by the fact that I was in Rome. But it is Spain that stuck me at home.
Little Naomi asked for an explanation of everything going on around us. So I told her it was a kind of deportation of Spain 2 - with only one benefit: this time we were not deported, and we have a home!
