The government is now proud and proud that Israel is on its way out of the fourth wave of the Corona, without a health closure as in previous waves, without severe congestion restrictions and with schools completely open from the beginning of the year.
But senior officials also, of course, continue to zealously keep in mind to forget, to try to forget and not to mention even a hint of the more than 1,500 Israelis, the victims of the corona who died in the fourth wave in just the last three months.
These victims were added to the thousands who died in the previous three waves since the beginning of the plague, until this week Israel will already be on the verge of 8,000 deaths from the worst plague that has hit humanity in about 100 years.
Precisely with the long-awaited and blessed continued moderation of the fourth wave, it is important to mention that senior officials of the Ministry of Health have repeatedly warned the government that it will be possible - and could have been - to prevent and prevent a significant part of infection, morbidity and mortality.
That is, if only the government had not persistently vehemently refused to quickly accept the experts' recommendations to significantly restrict gatherings in all areas, including culture and sports;
Set a significant and tight green mark almost two months before the government agreed to agree to it;
Open schools much more carefully;
Carry out significant, extensive and effective enforcement;
And agree to pay the obvious - compensation for victims in their livelihood from the corona restrictions.
The hasty announcements about the "end of the plague" must not hurt the national effort to completely eradicate the fourth wave.
They may even induce recurrent outbreaks
However, the government has seen the fourth wave, and continues even now, to actually see the avoidance of locksmithing (obviously having serious consequences) the appearance of everything and dizzying success while it is a spin and a severe and horrific distortion of reality.
This is also because these declarations have created a situation where when no closure is imposed it is already considered, so to speak, a tremendous and resounding success, and it does not matter at all if its price is hundreds of thousands more verified, thousands of seriously ill and 1,500 dead that the government wanted to "contain" and " Absorb "them.
Worse: Even when no closure is imposed, it was possible, and was obligatory, to quickly restore restrictions that were abolished with the arrogance of the end of the third wave.
But the government also wanted not to impose a closure, nor to impose almost any further significant restrictions, either that it would be considered a success, and also to forget and obscure the thousands of new victims.
Indeed, there is no doubt that the government has really succeeded in this.
And in a big way.
It's not over yet
In all previous waves, senior Ministry of Health and Government officials hastily and arrogantly announced the end of the corona eruption waves, and it was at this time, just as now, that thousands more new verifiers were discovered daily, with hundreds of patients hospitalized in critical condition, many critically and respirated. And almost every day more victims of the plague died.
The hasty announcements about the "end of the plague" must not be allowed to undermine the national effort for the complete eradication of the fourth wave and other victims.
They may even accelerate recurrent outbreaks of the epidemic to the point of, God forbid, a fifth wave of corona that may come with new mutations of the virus.
Indeed, in the past week the Ministry of Health has been quick to declare further easing of the few restrictions that exist and once again the Ministry of Health, under government pressure, seems to be leading back to routine dangerously rising at the cost of more and more new verified victims and more corona victims.
The exit from the fourth wave should be reversed from how the government has conducted itself throughout the current outbreak: listening and internalizing the demands and warnings of senior Ministry of Health officials, with the utmost caution, modesty and great concern for the existing wave and its aftermath. More from the plague.
Another task now of the government is to try to protect children even at a price that cannot be boasted in vain of preventing mass isolation in schools.
Isolation is a necessary tool for reducing the spread of the epidemic among children and from there to all adults, and it is forbidden to go into captivity following a dangerous policy in which the fight against the epidemic has been mistakenly replaced by the fight against isolation.
According to data from the Association of Pediatricians in the Medical Association presented a week ago in the Knesset, among the half a million children who were admitted to Corona in Israel, 201 children became significantly and severely ill - of whom 11 died.
Fear of significant syndromes
In addition, data from the United Kingdom were presented in the Knesset, according to which about 4.6% who became infected with Corona and had already recovered could later develop significant syndromes such as breathing problems, insomnia, muscle pain and even the development of diabetes and severe nervous system problems.
According to these data, thousands of children in Israel may suffer from these effects, so the government's duty is first and foremost to protect the children, and this duty is further intensified in the face of the expected approval in the US, according to experts, for the children to be vaccinated in Israel. .
