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Israel struggles with COVID surge despite mass vaccinations
Aljazeera ^

Posted on 08/23/2021 6:06:50 AM PDT by MNDude

Health experts say there are two main reasons the Delta variant hit Israel so hard. For one, Israelis were flouting the mask requirements, which were re-imposed at the end of June. Now police are handing out fines to those who do not wear a face covering.

The other reason given for the high rate of infection is that most Israelis were vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, which data shows is less effective than the Moderna jab against the virus.

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1 posted on 08/23/2021 6:06:50 AM PDT by MNDude
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Health experts say there are two main reasons the Delta variant hit Israel so hard. For one, Israelis were flouting the mask requirements, which were re-imposed at the end of June.

”Experts”. Uh huh. “15 days to flatten the curve.”

2 posted on 08/23/2021 6:14:05 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MNDude

And I thought that Pfizer had the better vaccine.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 6:18:13 AM PDT by Biggirl (" One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians-4:6)
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Good thing Pfizer is indemnified....

.gov bones the public again....


4 posted on 08/23/2021 6:22:13 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Sicon

If the vaccines worked the way vaccines are supposed to work masks would be irrelevant.

Anybody wear masks to fight polio or any other diseases?

What a joke.


5 posted on 08/23/2021 6:23:17 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: MNDude

The COVID surge is BECAUSE of the vaccinations.


6 posted on 08/23/2021 6:25:17 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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7 posted on 08/23/2021 6:26:06 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: MNDude

Cases, cases, cases. All the scary numbers cited are cases. No mention of numbers of deaths. Once again, the world is being whipped into a frenzy over an illness with a 99+% survival rate, and every proferred solution mandates the complete reordering of society. This is not about protecting our health.


8 posted on 08/23/2021 6:27:50 AM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: SubMareener

The “vaccines” are working. They are a cure for Wuhan flu hysteria, not a vaccine for the flu. Hysteria sufferers who get the vaccine overcome their hysteria, drop their precautions and get the flu. The success of the vaccinations is measured by the number of vaccinated who get the flu.

Herd immunity can be delayed but it can’t be denied.


9 posted on 08/23/2021 6:31:44 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: MNDude

These articles always leave out how many people are hospitalized due to Covid. Cases are irrelevant if everyone is vaxxed.


10 posted on 08/23/2021 6:35:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: SubMareener

I don’t dispute your thinking, but I believe that the Delta strain was already established in India before “vaccination” began, there.

At this point, I believe that we are too early for vaccination-induced strains, and are seeing, in Delta, one of the last naturally derived successful mutations. I say this, because it follows the natural model of increased contagiousness combined with reduced lethality.

Sufficient populations of the “vaccinated” throughout the world will allow the virus to deviate from natural evolution and become increasingly lethal to the unvaccinated.


11 posted on 08/23/2021 6:37:18 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: SubMareener

Yep.

Something has deranged these people’s immune systems. I wonder what?

The neighboring, unvaccinated Palestinians are doing fine. Heck of a control group, but I’ll take it.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 6:39:22 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for True Pope Benedict XVI and True President Donald J Trump)
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Sshh. You’re not supposed to talk about Israel’s vax fail.


13 posted on 08/23/2021 6:41:28 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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Your last sentence is incorrect. The majority of those hospitalized are vaccinated. And, some vaccinated are dying. I’ll look for the other articles posted here…


14 posted on 08/23/2021 6:50:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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For one, Israelis were flouting the mask requirements, which were re-imposed at the end of June.

Remember when the CDC dropped the mask requirement for vaccinated back in May. Seems like only yesterday. Because it was. The whole world’s health organizations were under the illusion the vaccines stopped transmission of the virus, or why else would they void the mask mandate; not that masks work anyway.


15 posted on 08/23/2021 6:52:08 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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“”The COVID surge is BECAUSE of the vaccinations.””

AND the variant is from the vaccinations IMO. I’m not an expert but my opinion is as important as any expert’s. They give us no more than their opinion and and we’re supposed to accept it.

Talked to a friend in CA whose daughter flies for a major airline and she just returned from Sydney, Australia. Said it’s like a prison over there - not allowed to walk across the street from the terminal to/from their hotel - had to take a shuttle; entering and leaving hotel rooms is closely monitored - same with meals.. She was just recalled to work after staying home and getting paid but isn’t anxious to go back to Australia. She flies the B787 and I do believe her dad said that they won’t be making any more trips there as they are returning nearly empty to the US.

This seems to mesh with the reports we hear that people aren’t allowed to travel from the city they live in there to other cities AND if they see their neighbors outdoors, DO NOT TALK to them - the same if you meet them shopping. Now that is just plain nuts! Kind of hard to understand when you consider the rugged individualists who had to have developed that nation.


16 posted on 08/23/2021 6:59:24 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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The Israeli experts want people to panic whenever anyone tests positive — even when symptoms are missing or mild.


17 posted on 08/23/2021 7:09:43 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: EEGator

1. People are hospitalized WITH Covid, not necessarily FROM Covid
2. Most of the people who died with Covid were not vaxxed.
3. If 92% of Boomers are vaxxed, it would stand to reason that they would have a heavy presence in the totals of people hospitalized WITH Covid


18 posted on 08/23/2021 7:39:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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#1 I agree, but that’s wasn’t used in death totals.

#2 is incorrect in recent time. Overall, yes you are correct.

As for #3, I honestly have no clue as to the age demographics of Israel.


19 posted on 08/23/2021 7:45:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: bagster
Science says take good data and let the data tell the story.

Politics says cherry pick the data so the data tells whatever story you want it to say.

Politics says: “Never let a pandemic go to waste.”

And if you don’t have a pandemic handy, maybe you can make one with Science!

Assimilation or elimination. Their resistance is futile.

You really can have it your way with Science!

20 posted on 08/23/2021 8:05:52 AM PDT by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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