-- Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
This is funny and true. I expected no lockdown. I do not believe there was ever a serious threat of a lockdown. This government's approach, for good or for bad, has been clearly to try to find a way to leave the country open. A lockdown did not make sense, and the pressure for it publicly only came from people who had no intention of adhering to it anyway. A lockdown for Sukkos also does not make sense, so I am not overly impressed by his warning, but I do agree that the more people follow the guidelines, the better off we will be.
Additionally, the funny part is in saying "continue following the guidelines". Almost nobody is, so I don't know who should continue doing so...
At the end of the day, good job in preventing a lockdown. I wonder if anyone who has been criticizing Bennett and his peers for the past 5-6 weeks about the possible lockdown coming will now praise him for not locking anything down. Everyone screaming over the past month about possible restrictions in travel to Uman while all other travel is open - will they praise him for allowing travel to Uman almost unrestricted?
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As long as qurantine is required for healthy school age children who were exposed to someone who tested positive, there is a de facto lockdown. In my son's DL talmud torah (Dvir), since Elul, 6 classes have gone in to bidud, one of them twice. There are only 8 classes in the school. I understand that over 60 kids were positive in Moriah RBS, so many classes there were also shut down. Same in Yad Binyamin. Only the 1st and 2nd grde are in person.
ReplyDeleteHow can parents work if their young kids are home, quarantined? So, I repeat myself. As long as these draconian quarantine rules remain, there is a de facto lockdown.
kids might be home from school, and God knows how lousy zoom school is and a hybrid of zoom and live class is even worse, but go anywhere outside and you'll see there is nothing even resembling a lockdown happening.
DeleteIf it was not for the vaccines, we definitely would have needed a lockdown. The inability of the Israeli public to follow the guidelines means that there would have been no other alternative.
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