The fact that you have an excuse not to be fined does not give you immunity from infection • Violators are small and dangerous people, because of which the crisis will continue for a long time • Opinion
They will not forgive you, the next deceased and his family.
They just will not forgive you.
You, the ones who bathe in the sea, who only go out for a moment to meet friends, who go on the eve of the holiday with the family.
They will not forgive you.
Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman
What do you think, that the virus is impressed by your ingenuity?
From your amusing video in a swimsuit where you hold signs and claim to the policeman that you are not spending time at the sea but demonstrating?
Do you think you will not get infected because you have a successful excuse not to get fined?
You too, the entourage of the prime minister and the journalists, who tried to evade isolation and in the end won short-term isolation.
White House workers who attended the signing ceremony of the historic relationship normalization were diagnosed as corona sick as you walked around the crowded lawn where not everyone was careful about wearing a mask.
Do you think the virus cares that you came to the ceremony on duty?
And to you, the protesters in Balfour - while my family, who reunited about a month ago after four years separately, celebrated the holiday separately again, you celebrated it together.
You celebrated at a long and defiant table to prove you can.
Do you think that the fake cover of justice presses will protect you from infection?
And even if none of the people I mentioned here get infected, what do they think of themselves?
All the tricks and sticks they have used in recent days to get around the closure do not make them big and strong, but rather small and dangerous.
They endanger us, the people who will come in contact with them the few times they go out to stock up on medicines or food products.
But more than that, they endanger the delicate fabric of Israeli society.
A society built on cohesion and mutual aid will disintegrate under attempts to deceive.
It will only work if we all put our momentary desires aside and succeed together.
Even if we choose to examine the situation selfishly, any unnecessary exit, any unnecessary violation of the quarantine - will lower its effectiveness.
Those who will be harmed by this are all of us, both those who obeyed and those who violated the guidelines, because it is inevitable that the violations will cause the situation to last longer and additional measures will be required in order to defeat the plague.
And after all that, they will sit in studios and write posts on social media and complain about the horrible government failing to eradicate the disease.
On the way out of the studio or when they get up from the computer, when they pass in front of the mirror, they will look at themselves and think - maybe it's not just the government.
Perhaps we are the ones who think that we are great heroes who are violating the closure, with our own hands bringing the State of Israel many more months of health and economic crisis?
Instead of getting smart, make themselves something to drink, sit on the couch and watch their children play and their spouses share their home with them, and think is it worth risking them for two hours sunbathing at sea?
All to prove how sophisticated I was that I managed to get around the closure?
I'm sure the answer will be no.
Stay home.
You will find responsibility.