Only in closure will it be possible to drastically reduce morbidity and mortality levels from the deadly epidemic • There is no choice but to return to prolonged closure and without corner circles • Opinion
The third closure that will begin on Sunday is necessary, committed to reality and there is really no choice but to do it, despite its very severe general social prices.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, earlier this week: "There is no sign that the vaccine we have does not overcome the corona mutation from Britain" // Photo: GPO
It is also desirable that we prepare for the fact that even two weeks of closure will probably not be enough to reduce the morbidity and mortality from the deadly epidemic enough, and the closure will have to last at least about a month.
With thousands of new patients a day, with 526 seriously ill patients again, 122 respirators and in a critical and very difficult condition, and with about 3,170 dead from Corona, there is no choice but to put Israel back in a prolonged closure.
The closure should also be as effective as possible, and it would have been better to do it in the format demanded by the Ministry of Health in the first place, including closing the entire education system, including closing all jobs (except essential jobs) and including closing Ben-Gurion Airport, except for particularly essential flights.
Only in such a closure, as demanded by the Ministry of Health, will it be possible to drastically reduce morbidity and mortality levels from the corona, and perhaps so (perhaps, and this is not certain) to succeed in being the last closure on Israel, while conducting the blessed vaccination campaign that may lead to very strong protection. The vulnerable population to Corona.
But this time too the Corona Cabinet is trying and trying to round corners in closure to make it easier for all of us, for example in opening schools, but so far since the onset of the epidemic such reliefs have come at a very high cost later, and it is now difficult to understand the Ministry of Health's agreements or silence. Of the closure, which the heads of the ministry themselves demanded to activate.
It is also true that some of the allegations against the government and the Ministry of Health are true in connection with scandalous agreements and facilitations in the field of travel abroad.
There are also allegations of many Israelis' disregard for the Corona's directives and the indulgence and lies they play in fulfilling their duty of isolation, and the allegations of non-enforcement and the fact that fines for violating Corona's restrictions were not raised are justified,
However, as in many countries such as Britain, Germany and France, where there is now a drastic increase in the epidemic, although they are considered reformed and strong countries that have sometimes managed to stop its spread - in Israel dealing with the epidemic is exhausting, and without vaccination it is impossible. .
Most respirators do not survive
The necessity to enter the closure is mainly not because of the failures in managing the corona crisis - and there are many such failures - but because of an epidemic on a historical scale that the countries of the world, most of them, fail to deal with so that it does not become deadly and kill thousands more Israelis.
In recent days, some senior Ministry of Health officials have repeatedly said that there is still no problem of insufficiency in hospitals.
Yet again and again we have to reply to them that we have already realized in this terrible epidemic that the problem is not just the number of beds, but that we want to make every effort so that these beds will not be inhabited by seriously ill patients.
This is because due to the lethality of the corona, most of the patients are hard and the respirators are unable to survive.
This should be the answer to the immoral arrogance and arrogance of senior doctors, some in past or present management positions in large hospitals in the country, who tell us how wrong and unnecessary the solution of closure is.
Unfortunately, for these doctors even more than 3,170 Israelis who died from Corona may not be enough to understand that we are not willing to listen to them because we, our loved ones and relatives do not want to die from Corona.
We therefore understand that there is no choice but to take drastic action to reduce the plague of the plague.