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| Israel is waging war on coronavirus conspiracies |
| 2021-02-12 |
| [Ynet] - While countless COVID-19 patients leave this world in great pain and agony, Israel is fighting a growing sector who choose to listen to pseudo-scientists instead of health experts, thereby putting themselves and others at risk. This week, I visited the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit at Sheba Medical Center, where my sister-in-law is a senior nurse. As we were talking, one of the machines monitoring the patients started beeping. Within a fraction of a second, the head nurse appeared in the adjacent room with a crash cart of resuscitation equipment. A couple of seconds later, three doctors and two more nurses raced in as well. I stepped outside. Later, I heard that everything was fine. One of the patients had deteriorated, the staff reacted immediately, and the man, who was neither young nor healthy, was saved. In unrelated instance two days later, I met with a friend who is a doctor at a coronavirus ward in one of the country's major hospitals. When I told her how fast the medical team had reacted and that everything had ended well, she just sighed. "I wish I could tell this is how it works with us too. What you saw there is not happening and will not happen with us, at least not in the near future, and when I say, 'the near future', I mean the coming months, not days," she said. Last week, her ward counted another six dead. All had showed signs of distress that required immediate resuscitation. But the two nurses and three doctors — the number of staff who could have given at least some of the patients a fighting chance - were simply not there. "People hear about the healthcare system collapsing, but they have no idea what it means in practice," she said. "It means that some patients we could have saved do die." Just like that, they die. They pass away in great pain, taken from this world just to become another number in the tally of deaths that has been climbing for many months, leaving behind broken hearts and a sense of great frustration and grief for which there is no cure. According to recent reports, 2.5 million Israelis over the age of 16 have yet to have the vaccine. Some 350,000 of them are over the age of 60 and are as such defined as a risk group. Some of them might still be waiting to get the shot for logistical reasons, but others belong to a growing number of adherents of pseudo-science on the margins of our society as it grapples with the pandemic. Israel can spend millions on education to combat half-truths disguised as scientific facts, but this is a battle that is unlikely to be won, if you will forgive the pessimism. Between the Ulta-Orthodox & anti-vaxer Libs ... |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 The State of Kansas. Although... [Shakespeareanisms here] |
| Posted by: Maggie Hupomp2614 2021-02-12 21:56 |
| #8 Okay, that's it. Why deny it? As of this moment I'm officially, teetotally fruit for Kansas. |
| Posted by: Maggie Hupomp2614 2021-02-12 21:53 |
| #7 I didn't even get into how we have blown it in case of a serious killer bug; basically all done any and all resources, credibility, financial net, every resource wasted and all that's been done is prove that we'd be fvkd. Going around like fuggin a dead chicken is a great warmup for wrestling a dinosaur. It is hubris on a classical greek literature level, and those guys always get punished in a bad way, "Oh ye are mightier than the Gods?!" -snap- turned into a donkey, then gets purchased by his mom to work with her in a Donkey Show. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-02-12 18:03 |
| #6 Another explanation: those in power don't have the faintest idea what to do, and have been trying desperately to cover their asses with lies, monkey-see, monkey-do and stupid redirects |
| Posted by: Claiter Peacock3886 2021-02-12 17:59 |
| #5 ^^^ Don’t hold back!. This is RANTburg. Tell us how you really feel! Agree with everything you said and would only add: What the F is wrong with people??? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-02-12 17:20 |
| #4 Not just your "whakadoodles", there are a lot of go alongs and well intentioned are having serious credibility issues, with good reason, with the game rules constantly changing and the vaccine 'dollar on a string' game being played. When the sane and the funny are like, "Next they'll say we need to stick things up our ass." and three weeks later, The Science! says we need to stick swabs up our ass, you got a fucking credibility problem. I see Health Experts, I spit, and those germs on the floor are much safer than the Health Expert Lifestyle. The CHO has issued domestic abuse is a real problem. Teen suicide and stupid tidepod tricks are up. Anxiety, Depression, Foreclosure, entire life dreams wiped out, all so some people feel like extras in Andromeda Strain, play expert, or grab power. I've seen those infected range from a couple days of the pits to contributing to death. We are coming up on the one year of '2 weeks of lockdown', which was apparently house arrest, where those of us here were wondering about the price of preventative measures. By what metric do we measure dad, who lost his income maybe even his business, drunk again, taking it out on mom, in front of the kids who are on their 3rd semester of learning nothing? The kids who would rather go to summer camp to quarantine 2 weeks with strangers because too much time around family? The kids who kill themself, and the ripple that makes? How do you measure that? Neighbors finking on neighbors, family turning in family, what's that? The obesity, the lethargy, the lack of athletics, and all the down the stream associated health problems. The delayed or ignored routine dental and health screening and checkups, the delay in emergency medical services especially stroke and heart attack, the preventable or treatable cancers and diseases, how do we accrue that price? And the mountains of environmental waste, the disposable masks, gloves, faceshields, the food which went bad because they couldn't buy a new fridge or freezer because the assembly shut down because of someone running a temperature, the buildings and goods ruined because criminals are allowed to roam the streets, the needles and paraphernalia due to increased drug use, the styrofoam and plastic from take-home meals. Quality of life, spending perpetuity in house arrest, harassed at checkpoints, Karen patrols, lectures and name calling, suspending reality to conform to the game while the refs openly cheat the rules, computer screen as substitute for natural interaction, the humiliation of nose swabs surpassed by anal probes, the destruction of spontaneity, the humiliation by the medias of those who buck the game, 11 months of brace for impact, and every time someone looks around Oh New Strain! Triple Mask! Butt Plugs! I have put a lot of time and effort and resources into my children, both have great potential, they have the intellectual requirements, they used to have the emotional requirements but the only reason they haven't gained the Covid-20 lbs is they quit eating at school, half because of the masketeers and half because slight depression symptoms. What is that fucking cost? And all being pushed by a class of people who would rather work from home because jerking off to co-workers is easier during Zoom meetings. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go relax by watching some overworked health workers go Boot Scootn' Boogie. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-02-12 16:40 |
| #3 How many of the medical staff at the second hospital refused vaccination, g(r)omgoru? I saw an article the other day showing that hospital staff vaccination rates in Israel are between — as I recall — 60% and 95%. I can’t remember where I saw it, but I’ll keep looking when I have a moment. At any rate, if any of the medical staff out sick on that ward refused to be vaccinated, this would make their actions manslaughter by the morality laid out by the writer’s doctor friend. Snowy Thing, the ultra-orthodox Jewish population in England in testing is showing 65% with Covid antibodies. One can assume that the ultra-orthodox in Israel are behaving similarly and seeing a similar result of naturally acquired herd immunity. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-12 15:20 |
| #2 The problem is that "conspiracy" changes all the time. First wearing masks is one, then not wearing them is. Now it's 2 and pantyhose even after vaccination. Plus, we have always been at war with Eastasia. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2021-02-12 10:36 |
| #1 Here's a conspiracy theory for you: the virus was created and the media atmosphere around it further weaponized to help in turning _you_ and other people who think You Fucking Love Science Sexually into useful idiots for Xi to use against their countrymen. It's worked here in the states, and it's working in Israel where you slyly imply stuff about "the ultra orthodox" that would embarrass a medieval peasant if said about "the jews." |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-02-12 09:30 |