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"By default" to a new normality

2020-07-09T03:11:07.195Z


Limor Smimian-demandedAlong with the appearance of the second wave of morbidity, the default wave of speech also seems to be returning. This pattern is always accompanied by a multi-participant outburst; Countless experts, media, and a host of politicians engaged in inaccurate information overlap, contradictory, but not indulgent in its resolute style. This is how general, unsettling disinformation is maintained, which...


Along with the appearance of the second wave of morbidity, the default wave of speech also seems to be returning. This pattern is always accompanied by a multi-participant outburst; Countless experts, media, and a host of politicians engaged in inaccurate information overlap, contradictory, but not indulgent in its resolute style. This is how general, unsettling disinformation is maintained, which is itself by default. 

For weeks the previous wave preached that the number of tests should be significantly increased. The innocent citizen has already been convinced that his future is entirely up to them, and certainly also in the present one. And when that accomplishment was achieved, Plotzker now writes about the unreasonableness of relying on numerous tests: "For if, on one clear day, the entire population of Israel had been tested for Corona, the number of reported subjects would have jumped ten times and at least another million people should have gone into isolation." That is, the amount of tests also reveals the high morbidity, and you may want to avoid the information.

Similarly, there are those who call on the government to hand over the crisis management to the military. The Home Front also enjoys a vengeance on sworn anti-militarists, especially when the very reading helps fuel political controversy. The same embarrassing factors also declare their opposition to ISA training, just because they are done in a security setting, and all the same, despite the fact that in almost all countries that deal with the virus successfully, a similar state, commercial or commercial monitoring system is also hard to forget. ה The infection of young children, which led to the demand to open the schools in full and dense composition, and to complain quickly when the second wave started there.

Indeed, the drastic rise in morbidity is alarming. But a thorough examination of the data reveals an international reality in which Israel is, at present, in a good place. Israel ranks second in the low mortality rate among patients. The death toll is about 30 per million people, with most OECD countries in the range of 300 to 600. The number of tests is more than 100,000 to one million, and close to 25,000 new tests are done every day. Following Israel in the rankings include: Belgium, Italy, Estonia, Germany, Sweden and South Korea. The OECD Secretary-General's compliments last week summarize the health situation. 

The second wave was ahead, and the government did not foresee the rapid outbreak. The public is already in the midst of an unresolved economic crisis, and now has to fear again its morbidity and the ability to recover. 

However, it is precisely at this time that the media and other experts are invited to learn from the previous wave, and most importantly, avoid flooding fiction and freeing themselves from the default concept. Based on a notion of normality that slipped away from our hands, it is wrong with the reality of uncertainty and epidemic. 

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Source: israelhayom

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