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| Israel enters 3rd lockdown tonight |
| 2020-12-27 |
| [Arutz 7] - Israel will enter its third lockdown tonight at 5 PM in an attempt to reverse rising coronavirus numbers. According to the government decision, the lockdown will last two weeks, but it may be extended and last three or four weeks. During the lockdown, classes will take place as usual in day care centers, kindergartens and in grades 1-4 and 11-12. All other grades will continue through distance learning instead of holding classes in school. During the lockdown, it will be forbidden to leave the place of residence beyond 1,000 meters, except for certain cases, including getting vaccinated, receiving medical or social care, attending a demonstration, legal proceedings, leaving for sports activities, transferring a minor between separated parents, leaving for a work place or educational setting, attending a funeral, wedding or Brit Millah (subject to the limits on the number of attendees). In addition, the government decided to ban the departure from the place of residence for the purpose of staying at another person's place of residence. Public and business spaces will also be closed except for essential stores: food, hygiene, optics, pharmacy, electrical appliances and products needed for essential home repairs. Workplaces that employ more than 10 employees will not be allowed to have either 50% of their workforce or 10 employees present, whichever is higher, excluding essential services. Professional sports teams will continue to operate as usual in both training and games. Activities in open areas will be prohibited. Practical studies at an institution of vocational education or training for adults, high school studies for dropout or at-risk youth, and activities of youth movements will be prohibited. Studies at these institutions will be held online instead. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #17 My two cents [around 1.4 rupees] Humility and carefulness always trumps liberty lovin' bullheadedness, if you ask me. I don't scare of death and disease easy, especially contagions. [I'm what you might call a faith nut, just short of dancing with a damn snake in my hands.] Your individual attitudes to the contagion becomes immaterial to a State when it is faced by a possibility of rapidly dwindling populations. Especially when there is an 'enemy demographic' that is increasing and a 'home demographic' that is essential to maintain. No one understands this better than societies battling constant hostility from vermin. So a State response of lockdown to protect valuable populations is a sound strategy, and really the only one a government can justifiably take. Anything less would lead to deaths and maybe bigger strain on medical facilities of socialist establishments, industry asked to pitch in, and economy in general than a lockdown will. In countries [especially Asian] where the adamant individual does not take precedence over the collective, people find this idea easier to accept. It's just a matter of national perspective. For Israel 'I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.' - Gawd ! 'For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.' - still Gawd. Jehova Rapha be with you. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-12-27 21:49 |
| #16 Israel is a tiny country and they're pretty good at avoiding objective trouble. Plus its better to be safe at this point. I have a soft spot for the place too, lived in the Diplomat Hotel back in '83 for about 2 months |
| Posted by: 746 2020-12-27 20:13 |
| #15 "The details that make the comparison meaningless are too numerous to list." Precisely, starting with weather... I am still waiting for that promised vaccine. I advised at time against the arrogance. |
| Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 2020-12-27 18:47 |
| #14 #7 Too funny. |
| Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 2020-12-27 17:06 |
| #13 We need a pick-me-up video of dancing nurses. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-12-27 15:11 |
| #12 Now, now, be nice. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-12-27 14:48 |
| #11 #9 The details that make the comparison meaningless are too numerous to list. Don't tell Onan the Contrarian and interrupt his onanistic death-wanking |
| Posted by: Chesney Grising4800 2020-12-27 13:40 |
| #10 ^yea, sure. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-27 13:28 |
| #9 The details that make the comparison meaningless are too numerous to list. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-12-27 13:09 |
| #8 Here in Middle East we have a saying: dogs bark [at the caravan], but the caravan keeps going. Israel has 1/5 per capita Covid deaths relative to USA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-27 12:26 |
| #7 I met a g(r)om who sang the blues And I asked him for some happy news But he just frowned and turned away |
| Posted by: JHH 2020-12-27 11:08 |
| #6 Weren't we flattening the curve and following the science in, like, April-May? Virus gonna virus. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-12-27 09:24 |
| #5 Israel, wear the damn mask! |
| Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 2020-12-27 09:16 |
| #4 It's 2029. The holographic avatar of St. Tony Fauxi (died of COVID in 2023) exhorts people to have masks surgically attached to their newborns' faces to protect against the 29th wave of COVID infections. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-12-27 09:03 |
| #3 Third time's a charm! *cough* |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-12-27 09:00 |
| #2 Because our pandemic fanatic says so |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-12-27 08:15 |
| #1 If the first and second didn't work, why do they think a 3rd will? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-12-27 07:42 |