The Happy Tag

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, along with Minister of Economics and Commerce Orna Berbibai, met today with a consortium of owners of events and wedding halls. The meeting was to hash out a plan by which the halls would be able to continue functioning hosting events and weddings while keeping people as safe as possible, even amidst the spreading of CoronaVirus with possible social limitations and restrictions coming.

The meeting concluded with the creation of the "Tav Sameach". The Happy Tag. Like the Purple Tag businesses were allowed to operate under during previous lockdowns, the Happy Tag will set guidelines for the continued operation of these wedding and event halls.

The main points of the Happy Tag is that an event with fewer than 100 people can function as normal with no restrictions (though masks must be worn indoors, as per the current rules), but any event with more than 100 people will require guests and participants who have not been vaccinated or recovered to present proof of being tested for Corona (with negative results) within 72 hours of the event.

There are a few more minor rules, such as how dinner and dancing should be organized, indoor and outdoor preferences, etc. but the main issue is the participants.

The goal, Bennett says, is to find a way to let them continue functioning and keep everyone safe - if we shut them down, should it become necessary, then people will go back to pirate weddings and events that will keep nobody safe.

So, that seems to mean the "green passport" is back. To get in to a wedding you were invited to, or a bar mitzva or concert, you are going to be required to show proof of vaccination or recovery, or of a negative PCR test. 

For those of us vaccinated or recovered that is not such a big deal. Will unvaccinated/unrecovered guests, outside of immediate or close family, really go take Corona tests, and pay for them privately, every time a friend or neighbor or cousin invites them to a bar mitzva or wedding? I am not sure how realistic this plan is, and it will depend on the enforcement - if there is not going to be serious enforcement of any new rules it is back to the illogical rules of the last year and a half of closures and lockdowns and restriction rules that often made no sense.  

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