Imagine a country, no matter what continent, that is at the height of a fifth wave of corona outbreaks - with 80,000 new verified people a day, and half a million active corona patients (joining the 2.5 million that have occurred so far).
Among them are hundreds of thousands of children.
And there are also 2,250 patients in this country who are hospitalized in 24 hospitals, of which more than 900 are in critical condition, 250 of them in critical condition - between life and death - and about 190 respirators are connected to the respirator and can not survive without it.
Among the hospitalized there are also about 120 children, of whom more than 20 are in critical condition.
This, and more: The Ministry of Health in this country calculated and found that the estimate of the severity of hospitalizations is the most serious since the epidemic began about two years ago, without taking into account the 8,500 doctors and nurses who are verified in Corona or who are in isolation.
In the same country there are also, not us, between 20 and 40 dead a day.
And there are also 170,000 civilians in solitary confinement, joining another seven million who have been in solitary confinement since the onset of the plague.
In the same country, the National Control Center for the Fight against Corona, jointly owned by the Ministry of Health and the Army Intelligence Corps, reported that for the first time there are reports in the world of children suffering from a severely damaged heart after contracting the Omicron variant virus.
Also, in countries where the variant broke out, neurological symptoms were detected in children who contracted corona, including seizures and encephalitis, especially in unvaccinated children (about one million of these are in Israel between the ages of 5 and 18).
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on current government policy regarding child isolation at Omikron // Photo: Likud spokeswoman
Imagine then that you would have known that the Prime Minister of that country, the Minister of Health (yes, the Minister of Health!) And the Minister of Education (yes, the Minister of Education!) Decided - right at the height of the most contagious corona wave since the beginning of the epidemic - to abolish isolations almost completely. Mass infection of hundreds of thousands of children.
If you had heard all this - you would probably have said that there can be no such state, and certainly there can be no such government, which abandons the citizens and bets on their lives and the well-being of the children.
But that is exactly what Naftali Bennett, Nitzan Horowitz and Yifat Shasha Bitton did.
The three decided on another step, particularly insane and extreme, which proves how dangerous, immoral, irresponsible - and potentially fatal - the current government's policies are.
Bennett and the pair of ministers consciously and demonstratively chose to remove the protections from the public in general and the children in particular.
This is a response to the irresponsible demands of the Minister of Education, who since the beginning of the epidemic - under the guise of criticism and false concern for public safety - has been undermining Israel's national health protection and the vaccination campaign.
In the fourth wave of the plague, Bennett and Horowitz were willing to do anything, and pay any price, and the main thing was that there would be no closure.
The result was the deaths of more than 1,800 Israelis from Corona.
Whereas now, in the current wave, Bennett, Horowitz and most government ministers are ready to fight isolation at any cost, whatever the cost.
During the peak of the epidemic, isolations must not be shortened - neither among students nor among adults.
The relief should be determined only when there is a decline in the plague, and even then - only in a careful, and not rapid, dangerous, reckless, arrogant and smug manner, as has happened here after almost every wave since the beginning of the accursed plague.
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