About a thousand people have died from Corona since the government was formed in June until today.
More than 950 of them have died since the beginning of August.
The State of Israel is in fifth place in the mortality rate among OECD countries, and in the morbidity rate it has been starring in first place for some time.
Soft braking, soft braking, we have been told so many times in recent weeks.
A code name that hides an ongoing policy that has created a false binary between the economy and health, that has sold a "non-closure" as a spin that eradicates an unwillingness to promote any other action that will reduce morbidity other than vaccines, alongside shifting responsibility to the public.
And the result?
Severe morbidity and intolerable mortality.
The important decision to give a third vaccine was delayed for precious weeks, and when the operation finally began, it was after so much misinformation had already been circulated about the vaccine's ability to deal with the Delta strain and unfortunately - but not surprisingly - the response rate did not live up to expectations.
To date, it turns out, we have not reached the three million booster vaccines, as Bennett claimed a few weeks ago in his meeting with Biden.
Efforts to vaccinate the million people who have not been vaccinated in a single dose have also failed.
This, along with the other failures in the management of the epidemic in the last two months, which have absurdly made the State of Israel the new example of vaccine deniers.
And at every stage in these two months - when it was still possible to try to prevent the further increase in morbidity by further means until the third vaccine effect was achieved - restrictions on the public, even the most minor ones, were not approved in time.
Thus, instead of managing the epidemic at a high level and under an orderly sub-rule, we rolled from spin to spin: there would be no closure "as in the previous government" (although in a vaccinated country like ours, in the first place there should have been no closure);
This is a Delta epidemic said (to justify the lack of control over the great eruption);
A green character and a purple character are too serious?
We will invent a "happy character";
A breach at Ben Gurion Airport is worrying? We will take care of the pilots to Uman;
And this rolling and unbearable omission, the government labored to hide very well from the public.
As the number of verified ones exceeded the 10,000 peak per day, every day, for weeks, bidders began not to report them, but only to critically ill patients.
In general, we are like the declining graph of the UK.
And when the downward trend in severe patients stopped (as in the UK) and their number remained constant, they sought to talk about the coefficient of infection.
And when the coefficient of infection began to rise, they explained that what was important was the ability of hospitals to treat.
And when these already told stories of collapse, describing a reality in which intensive care patients did not receive treatment due to lack of equipment and manpower, they explained that this was not "inadequacy."
When Yad Sarah testified to a lack of oxygen generators, they denied that seriously ill people were also sent to home hospitalization.
And as the queues for tests lengthened, they announced a reduction in "demand" and a change in PCR testing billing policies.
And as school isolations have become mass, pilot tests have been announced instead of isolations.
But the number of respirators and patients in critical condition continued to rise, and with it, with great pain, so did the deceased.
1,000 deaths is not a symbolic number, and not just another step that distills for us the fact of the failure of the epidemic management in the current wave against all the spins said in the last two months. It is a collection of faces and names and life stories that have been cut down. A heavy price that the public is required to pay for a false "soft brake" policy.