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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
‘Nothing can justify this destruction of people's lives'
2020-05-25
[spiked] Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.

Countries across the world have been in lockdown for months in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The costs of the policy are enormous — in terms of life, liberty and the economy. But is it worth it to save lives? Yoram Lass was once the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Health. Lass is a staunch critic of the lockdown policy adopted in his native Israel and around the world. He has described our response to Covid-19 as a form of hysteria. spiked caught up with him to find out more.

spiked: You have described the global response to coronavirus as hysteria. Can you explain that?
Posted by:Clem

#7  #6 He was always a sleaze-ball politician and an absolute idiot as an academic administrator. Now he's seeing a chance for comeback by pandering to anti-locker crowd (effectively nonexistent in Israel)- fat chance, nobody in Israeli politics, or TAU for that matter, can stand him.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-25 09:35  

#6  "In the Middle East, this virus is not really working."

Hmm. He might want to look at the numbers (per capita) in Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, not to mention Iran.
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-05-25 09:16  

#5  #3 - well put
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-25 07:46  

#4  Unbelievable indeed. A new chapter in The Madness of Crowds
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-25 07:44  

#3  ..well in ancient times false prophets were stoned to death. Had an inherit QA effect.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-25 07:40  

#2  Imagine how drastically a PhD in epidemiology will over analyze the final seconds before being strung up on a lamp post next to his political bosses.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-25 07:04  

#1  It's all about power. Grab it when you can. Abuse it. I am God Science, worship me!

Feed by Legacy Infotainment Enterprises that exist upon crisis to sell air time and print column.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-25 06:51  

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