21 Elul 5780
Apparently the Knesset Coronavirus Committee has been actually overseeing things and thinking about what they've been observing and investigating. Surprised? I am.
The following was published at Arutz-7 yesterday (emphases mine):
The Coronavirus Committee has found that in every death reported in Israel in which the deceased was found to have been carrying the coronavirus, COVID-19 was listed as the primary cause of death.
This was true regardless of whether the deceased had died from other serious illnesses – ranging from heart disease to cancer to Alzheimer’s – and was merely a carrier of the virus, the committee found.
Experts say at least 30% of the fatalities listed as being caused by the coronavirus were actually primarily caused by something other than COVID-19.
Following the revelation, MK Yoel Razvozov (Yesh Atid), who sits on the Knesset’s Coronavirus Committee, is joining 120 physicians and scientists in calling on the Prime Minister, Health Minister, and Israel’s Coronavirus Czar to reassess the country’s coronavirus death count.
“For the past five months, we in the Coronavirus Committee have felt that something is off, as if someone isn’t showing us all of the statistics and the whole truth,” said Razvozov.
“Today we understand that the whole method for counting victims of the coronavirus is fundamentally flawed. This is scandalous behavior by the Health Ministry, which directly affects the government’s decisions, leading us over and over again to lockdowns and to the destruction of the Israeli economy. Even Israel’s position in the international community as a red or green state has been influenced by these statistics, which directly affect flights, tourism, and trade with Israel.”
“I call on the Prime Minister and the Health Ministry to seriously address this request and to conduct a recount and reappraisal of the general situation including the number of coronavirus deaths. The current policies are very destructive and are leading to unnecessary panic and are hurting the country in a wide number of areas.”
My comment to the KCC: Bravo! It's about time. Even though the whole world is wrapped up in making decisions based on wrong premises just like the ones you've found here, you are helping Israel wake up to the possibility that we might be able to survive without exaggerating the corona crisis here, and without putting large parts of the population under house arrest "for our own good" to the point of making the whole country unable to avoid the crash — both medical and economic. My blessing is that you keep going and get to the bottom of it all!
And make sure the sectors the government has been discriminating against (haredim...) with regard to extreme measures such as lockdowns benefit from this along with the rest of us, please.
Thank you in advance.
UPDATE: the government turned around and approved the lockdown (the Hebrew word for it actually means "closure" - hence the title of the article I'm linking to here) three days after I posted.
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Makes me wonder what made them change their mind, and what kind of pressure was brought to bear in all of this.
And they can't even make up their mind as to how strict it has to be.
Let me be clear. I do see that there is a vicious virus out there that doesn't sound like any other.
I have been obeying the rules. I suffer either way, whether I do or not. It has not been pleasant. But I do it because I want to survive to greet Mashiah, be"H! I also take nutritional supplements (at least I take the zinc portion of Dr. Zelenko's protocol) and otherwise take care of myself.
I wish my readers good health this new year, and that we will merit to see geula shlemah.
On the other hand, I did forget one important thing about the change of heart: That large crowds of seculars protesting against our Prime Minister had a lot to do with it.
ReplyDeleteSee Leftist hatred for Netanyahu major catalyst for countrywide corona lockdown