"Florida is open," Governor Ron de Santis declared.
In his country there is no longer an obligation to wear masks, and children who have been exposed to verified corona patients no longer go into isolation.
While in New York someone stands at the entrance to any restaurant or theater and checks that entrants are vaccinated, in Florida even the NBA management failed to bend the governor: According to the league administration, every spectator sitting near the parquet must be vaccinated and wear a mask, but this week, in between The Wizards and the Magic in Orlando, we sat in a place from which we could see every drop of Danny Abdia's sweat but no one asked to see a vaccination certificate.
In the first corona wave, de Santis' policies resulted in Florida having the most patients in the U.S. His, de Santis also managed to make Florida the fastest-growing state in the United States, and mostly did what almost no world leader has done about the Corona plague: make a decision, radical as it may be, and stand behind it all the way.
Other governors zigzagged, trying to walk between the drops.
For example Larry Hogan, the governor of Maryland, a Republican who was the one who marked him as the one who could run for the Republican Party leadership in the next election.
Hogan understood that his right-wing positions on the Corona conflict with the position of most of the super-Democratic Maryland residents, so he allowed each county to decide for itself how and when to close schools.
The result is that in one district the schools are closed, in the other they have started giving children home corona tests and N95 masks, and in another district it is decided from moment to moment which school will be closed.
Total chaos.
Israel is no different from the US in this sense: every day new decisions are made, the public is confused and no one knows what a day will bring. Last week the whole world was red, this week it is no more. From his own decisions.
On the face of it, it seems that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has decided to open Israel.
Do not close schools, do not close the sky.
But at the same time the government continues to warn of catastrophe and tell that the country is facing disaster.
The voice is the voice of New York, but the hands are by Florida.
Every decision has a price.
Leadership decides and accepts responsibility.
If you have closed everything, be prepared for it to have an immediate impact on the economy and the psyche.
If you want to open - open, just be willing to absorb criticism and yes, also that it may cost people their health.
The worst thing is to dance a tango with reality and with the sense of security of the citizens.
Even so, the corona caused a feeling of helplessness.
Many bad and difficult things can be said about Ron de Santis, but one thing can not be taken away from him: he stood firm behind his policy - for better or worse.
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