The State Comptroller's report on the first and second waves of the Corona reveals some of the serious failures of the previous government in the fight against the epidemic: Corona verified, and the critical shortage of beds and staff in intensive care units.
The serious failures that Engelman revealed cost us all dearly, and in the last year and a half have further weakened the chances of succeeding in the fight against the plague.
They also further increased the number of Israeli casualties: the number of verified, which yesterday reached the highest daily record since the outbreak of the plague;
The number of patients is difficult, having already reached more than 700 patients in the corona wards yesterday;
And the number of corona victims, who until yesterday numbered more than 7,000 dead.
The main problem that emerges from the auditor's report is that we have not learned enough from the failures in the previous three corona waves. There are areas in which we have learned almost nothing, and Israel repeatedly repeats the mistakes, failures and omissions.
State Comptroller Matanyahu Engelman // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
For example, when the Corona Cabinet and the current government refused about two months ago to accept the recommendations of health experts, who repeatedly demanded the return of corona restrictions (green and purple characters and the obligation to wear masks), after the fourth wave of the epidemic in Israel began slowly.
The Corona cabinet threw almost all the recommendations off all the stairs.
What he had already received, he applied too slowly and too late, and the Ministry of Health's recommendation to restrict entry to events and performances was completely rejected by the government.
This enabled the performances with ten thousand participants at the height of the fourth wave, with Israel at the top of the epidemic outbreak table in the world in relation to the size of the population.
The current government is also unforgivably failing in enforcement.
After the Ministry of Homeland Security solemnly announced more than a month ago that all enforcement is in its hands - enforcement seems to be a bad joke.
This is especially noticeable in public transport, where both on the train and on the buses the honest man in his eyes will do - under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport.
The most tangible example, perhaps, of the government's disgrace in enforcement, is in the answers given this week by Health Minister Horowitz and the ministry's director general, Prof. Ash, who answered surfers' questions. That is, the Minister of Health, even if he does not mean it, sends citizens to confront other citizens who do not wear masks, when there have already been cases where such comments ended in severe violence by those who refuse to wear masks. Yesterday, for example, another bus driver was reported again (From the Superbus company) who was attacked in Afula by a passenger who demanded that he wear a mask.
When Horowitz and Prof. Ash were asked about Rosh Hashanah, one of the holidays when the largest family gatherings are traditionally held, they had no orderly and prepared recommendations but only a few almost trivial, general, embarrassing, amorphous statements, some even amusing, but nothing like what was expected Top of the Ministry of Health in the fourth wave to say.
PM Bennett prefers politics // Photo: AFP,
The opening of the school year today is also a big, unnecessary and dangerous gamble that the government is taking.
She seeks, at almost any cost, to model a routine under Corona without taking into account the harsh prices we may all still have to pay for it.
The decision-making in the last two days, as well as the decision of the cabinet led by Bennett to consider vaccinated even high school students who received only one vaccine in the coming month, once again illustrates how much we have learned from the previous waves of the epidemic. , His health and life.