The corona plague is not the type of event that allows room for questions.
In the mighty smokescreen of graphs, closures, endless arguments and almost collective anxiety, criticism is not easily heard.
But it's time to ask some questions about the green character.
A moment before, clarification and reservation: the following does not concern the medical aspect, writes these lines vaccinated in the third, and in general the layman who does not understand half a thing in medicine.
The allegations concern matters of individual freedom and the steps taken by the government and restrict the lives of some of its citizens, perhaps rightly so, but the ease and quiet with which the restrictions are accepted are problematic.
As of this writing, more than one and a half million citizens have not been vaccinated in the three doses and are not eligible for a green label. Even if we reduce the number of recoverers and other vaccine engines from the number, there will still be a huge number of Israelis who will have to be tested before entering restaurants, events and in general will be considered almost lepers. The government may decide that anyone who comes through the gates of one of its institutions, from hospitals to the reception of the public at the licensing office, is required to be vaccinated. But does it have the right to determine for a private business owner who will be able to serve and who will not? The answer to this question is not at all clear, and the consequences of giving the right to the authorities to determine how people will conduct themselves within their property are at the very least very disturbing.
And no, the unvaccinated sector is not a group of crazy science deniers, even if there is such a group on the margins. These are citizens who have made a choice, even if wrong, and the state is blatantly infiltrating their lives and drawing them as biological bombs. One only has to recall the words of Prime Minister Bennett, who claimed that the unvaccinated sprayed viruses in a machine gun on the street, and said that he wanted parents of vaccinated children to compete with parents who did not vaccinate their children to put pressure on them. This is not healthy conduct in democracy.
In fact, in the aggressive extension of the green mark, the government is trying to cover up its failures and the fact that the non-vaccinated refuse to do so much because of these failures. Until a few months ago, the citizen saw the same people who are now asking him to be convinced of the seriousness of the threat, explaining to him how much he is a fiction. Lapid claimed the closures were an attempt to impose a dictatorship, Bennett underestimated the need for a third vaccine, and the government now has a prominent Corona vaccine minister. To these must be added the violation of the ugly directives of former Prime Minister Netanyahu, cabinet ministers, president and judges, who were not punished at all, while helicopters chased bathers who dared to enter the sea. It is also worth mentioning Bennett's speech at the UN, in which he actually dropped the ground beneath the credibility of health ministry professionals on an international stage.
Can the more than a million non-vaccinated be blamed for skepticism?
In a loss of confidence?
Thinking something's wrong here?
Of course not, and coercion will not solve the problem and it is something to beware of and criticize.
The green mark is the very easy but very problematic solution to the reality created by the leaders, and whose price is paid by the citizens.