Posted on 08/25/2021 7:11:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
“I don’t want to frighten you,” Israel’s COVID czar Dr. Salman Zarka told parliament this week. “But… unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie.”
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JERUSALEM—The massive surge of COVID-19 infections in Israel, one of the most vaccinated countries on earth, is pointing to a complicated path ahead for America.
In June, there were several days with zero new COVID infections in Israel. The country launched its national vaccination campaign in December last year and has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, with 80 percent of citizens above the age of 12 fully inoculated. COVID, most Israelis thought, had been defeated. All restrictions were lifted and Israelis went back to crowded partying and praying in mask-free venues.
Fast forward two months later: Israel reported 9,831 new diagnosed cases on Tuesday, a hairbreadth away from the worst daily figure ever recorded in the country—10,000—at the peak of the third wave. More than 350 people have died of the disease in the first three weeks of August. In a Sunday press conference, the directors of seven public hospitals announced that they could no longer admit any coronavirus patients. With 670 COVID-19 patients requiring critical care, their wards are overflowing and staff are at breaking point.
“I don’t want to frighten you,” coronavirus czar Dr. Salman Zarka told the Israeli parliament this week. “But this is the data. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie.”
What happened?
The complex and sobering truth is that no single policy or event brought Israel to this crisis, Hagai Levine, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor of epidemiology, told The Daily Beast. A deadly set of circumstances came together to put Israel on the precipice, most of which can be summed up as: “We are still in the midst of a pandemic, and there is no silver bullet.”
“All the vectors have influenced the rise in morbidity,” he said.
But the principal causes of Israel’s current predicament are the dominance of the extremely infectious Delta variant, which was carried into the country by Israelis returning from foreign vacations during the weeks in which Israel dropped all restrictive measures—along with the worrisome decrease in vaccine efficacy after about six months.
Israel vaccinated its population almost exclusively with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which received full FDA approval on Monday and remains the gold standard for the prevention of severe illness due to the coronavirus.
But in early July, with citizens over the age of 60 almost completely vaccinated, Israeli scientists began observing a worrisome rise in infections—if not in severe illness and death—among the double-vaccinated.
Fully vaccinated people with weakened immune systems appeared particularly vulnerable to the aggressive Delta variant.
By mid-July, Sheba Hospital Professor Galia Rahav began to experiment with booster shots for oncology patients, transplant patients, and the hospital’s own staff. A group of 70 elderly vaccinated Israelis with transplanted kidneys were the first to receive a third dose.
The success of Rahav’s trials in boosting immunity at about the sixth-month mark contributed to the Centers for Disease Control decision, announced last week, to begin offering booster shots to Americans in September.
In order to keep severe illness and the number of COVID deaths down, and avoiding a fourth national lockdown, Israel has embarked on an aggressive effort to provide all adults with boosters in a matter of weeks.
As of this week, all Israelis over 30 will be eligible to receive booster shots. By the end of the month, they are expected to be universally available to anyone over the age of 12 who received their second vaccine five months or more ago.
Israel will then reconfigure its Green Passports, granting them only to the triple-vaccinated, and limiting their validity to six months. In anticipation of this change, the number of unvaccinated Israelis getting their first shots has tripled since the beginning of August.
The World Health Organization has asked wealthy countries to halt all third vaccines for a period of two months, hoping that a moratorium will allow poorer countries, where few citizens have received even a first inoculation, to catch up. The United States rejected the call and Israel has ignored it.
Asked what has brought Israel to peak transmission even as the country has already provided third doses of vaccines to 1.5 million citizens, Rahav, who has become one of the best known faces of Israel’s public health messaging, sighed, saying, “I think we’re dealing with a very nasty virus. This is the main problem—and we’re learning it the hard way.”
“It is a combination of waning immunity, so that inoculated people get reinfected, and at the same time the very transmissible Delta variant,” Rahav said, adding that Israelis lacked the discipline to revert to mask usage as the numbers began rising. “But it is not an Israeli problem,” she added. “It is everywhere.”
Her conclusion should give pause to American authorities, who face school reopenings as, at best, only 50 percent of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated.
Unlike New Zealand, which aims for zero community transmission of the coronavirus, and imposes lockdowns when even a single positive case is identified, Israeli authorities have opted for a model they are calling “living with corona.”
“Israel really is a pioneer,” Levine, the former chairman of the nation’s Association of Public Health Physicians, said, referring to the groundbreaking vaccination campaign and the country’s efforts, currently underway, to fully reopen schools on Sept. 1 while keeping in place measures aimed at preventing school-driven outbreaks, such as the one that closed the nation down last summer.
“We’ve achieved a plan that is not hermetic,” Zarka, the coronavirus czar, told a local radio station. “Clearly there will be cases of illness at schools… [but] shutting oneself up at home and closing the school system isn’t exactly the solution.”
He has asked the government to impose stricter limitations on the size of cultural and sports events until the incidence of the coronavirus declines.
“Each country has to assess its own epidemiology,” Levine said, “its culture, its public health, the public’s confidence in its health authorities.” Referring to New Zealand, he added that “we can all learn from other countries, but you can’t copy paste other countries’ methods.”
Israel was forced to make quick decisions and in a time of great uncertainty. Levine was among the public health officials who expressed doubts about the wisdom of Israel’s untested move towards nationwide booster vaccination, but he told The Daily Beast that the latest statistics, showing that only 0.2 of the first 1.1 million recipients of the third jab were infected with the coronavirus, proved it had been a “brave decision.”
The last week has shown a significant reduction in morbidity among triple-vaccinated Israelis over the age of 70—the first group to receive the booster.
Like the other experts, Rahav supports schools reopening, but noted that thanks to upcoming Jewish holidays, which will close schools in about 80 percent of the country, Israel will once again be uniquely positioned to serve as a huge laboratory.
The Flu is not as contagious. Even with a mask, you can get enough Covid to make you sick. The mask becomes your doom as it gives you a false sense of security. Probably 50% of people wore a mask to the grocery store where it wasn’t needed but didn’t wear it to gatherings where it was needed. That’s what we found in contact tracing.
“...along with the worrisome decrease in vaccine efficacy after about six months.”
OH! “worrisome” DECREASE in efficacy! Translation: It QUITS WORKING.
I like the “old” “REAL” vaccines that last for LIFE!
You know, like the all natural “HERD” vaccine. You have herd of it haven’t you?
“...began observing a worrisome rise in infections—if not in severe illness and death—among the double-vaccinated.”
There’s that minimizing word again “worrisome”. Just how “worried” are the DEAD? (not worried, they’re DEAD).
Let me repeat this part...
“severe illness and death—among the double-vaccinated.”
When will you PRO-Vaxers GET IT? Not the vaccine, but the fact that they are DEADLY!, in two ways.
1. they don’t protect you.
2. they can KILL you. (While COVID likely WILL NOT NKILL YOU!)
All reparatory deaths are now COVID. Pneumonia is now COVID-Pneumonia. The annual flu is now COVID-flu. Motorcycle deaths are now COVID-related. Old age deaths are COVID-related.
WAKE UP!
AUGUST 24, 2021
“Oxford University study finds fully vaccinated Healthcare workers carry 251 times viral load compared to the unvaccinated proving the Covid-19 jabs make you worse”
“… They say it helps against the Delta virus, but everybody vaxed is getting it. It will be the unvaccinated that will save the world…”
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No, silly, not “everybody vaxed is getting it”. The recent Mayo Clinic large scale study showed, for example, that individuals fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine will, compared to an equal group of unvaccinated individuals, will be 76% protected against detectable infection.
“Bill Gates said that the “Final Solution” to end coronavirus disease is the vaccine (Video)”
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=26348
Did they give someone a head’s up on the injections?
6/21
The Palestinian Authority has decided to cancel the COVID-19 vaccine agreement with Israel
The vaccine industry is pure evil and fraudulent
They have ALWAYS BEEN FRAUDULENT
FROM THE GET GO
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MORE THAN 100 years
1917
1933 a British science team to identify the first filterable bacteria in man, yet propaganda says that the virus of Spanish flu killed millions of civilians and soldiers during the pandemic from 1918 to 1920.
Many would have us believe that all those American soldiers who died from non-combatant causes died from Spanish flu. However, U.S. Army records show that seven men died after being vaccinated.
A report from U.S. Secretary of War Henry L Stimson, the deaths were not only verified but also there had been 63 deaths and 28,585 cases of hepatitis reported as a direct result of yellow fever vaccination during only six months of the war. Plus, the yellow fever vaccination was only one of the 14 to 25 shots given to recruits.
1911 vaccinations became a requirement in the U.S. Army. Cases of typhoid and vaccinial diseases increased rapidly, according to Army records.
1917 The death rate from typhoid reached the highest point in the history of the U.S. Army after America entered the war.
In 1917, 19,608 men were admitted into army hospitals due to anti typhoid inoculation and vaccinia, according to a report of the Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army; and this doesn’t take into account others whose symptoms were attributed to other causes. The army doctors knew all these cases of disease and death were due to vaccination and were honest enough to admit it in their medical reports. Army doctors tried to suppress the symptoms of typhoid with a stronger vaccine, however it caused a worse form of typhoid, paratyphoid. They then concocted an even stronger vaccine to suppress the previous one and created an even worse disease–Spanish flu.
After the war, this was one of the vaccines used to protect a panic-stricken world from the soldiers returning from WWI battle fronts infected with dangerous diseases.
The rest is history.
1918 Great influenza epidemic attributed to widespread use of vaccines that killed up to 100 million people.
1921 BCG tuberculosis vaccine developed.
1922 A study by Samuel Torrey Orton connects emotional disturbance with neurological problems. This insight was lost after World War II when psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis became popular, breaking the connection. The emotional disturbances caused by vaccines then became financial fodder for the new psych-industries. With the causes suppressed, a new industry was born.
1925 Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen tries a modified Pertussis vaccine during an epidemic in the Faroc Islands. It did not prevent Pertussis. (See 1933).
1925 General vaccine programs against tuberculosis began in the United States.
1927 British government appoints a committee to inquire into ‘vaccine lymph’, as it is noticed that the ‘glycerinated calf lymph’ used in vaccinations causes deaths from ‘sleepy sickness’. Two London professors bring notice of the problem to the government in 1922. It takes 5 years before the government responds.
April, 1930 Eli Lilly, makers of thimerisol, inject the product into 22 people with meningitis who all die. Lilly publishes the “study”, claiming that thimerisol, 50% mercury by weight, is safe.
1930 Max Theiler develops a yellow fever vaccine.
1931 Roosevelt endorses polio ‘immune serum’, precursor to vaccines in 1950’s.
1932 Diptheria vaccines injure 171 and kill 1 in Charolles, France.
Rumble — Dr. Anne McCloskey of the NHS gives an impassioned plea after working all night in the hospital, where almost everyone she treated was double vaccinated for COVID. Young people in their 20s are developing disabilities she has never seen before.
Let me continue...
“Fully vaccinated people with weakened immune systems appeared particularly vulnerable to the aggressive Delta variant.”
That is a “stealthily” worded statement.
Hmmm. “weakened immune systems”. What could make their immune systems not function properly? An untested, warp speed, mRNA, spike protein jab?
“Israel will then reconfigure its Green Passports, granting them only to the triple-vaccinated”
TRIPLE vaccinated, then quadruple-vaccinated, quintuple-vaccinated, .....
Scientist: ““I think we’re dealing with a very nasty virus.”
Is that a clinical description, a “scientific” description? “nasty”. I’ll have to look that up in my PDR.
“...and we’re learning it the hard way.””
Translation: We don’t know what the F*CK we are doing!
“The last week has shown a significant reduction in morbidity among triple-vaccinated Israelis over the age of 70—the first group to receive the booster.”
I’ll bet that if you looked hard enough (maybe it wouldn’t be that hard), you could find a very similar, if not exact, statement about the “DOUBLE” vaccinated.
The “pièce de résistance”:
“Israel will once again be uniquely positioned to serve as a huge laboratory.”
We are all just lab RATS for the “scientists” to experiment on.
DON’T BE A RAT!
Tell them to shove their faux vaccines and boosters up their ass!
Thank you, that’s fascinating info and I appreciate your reply. I didn’t consider the difference in infectiousness.
Human error. Nothing to be concerned about. Happens all the time. Someone will have that fixed and sanitized in a jiffy.
YES! Science has determined that there is no such thing as natural immunity obtained from surviving Covid, and only Internet-believing science deniers would think otherwise.
this is what I’ve learned here on FR.…..”
Social distancing is a load of horse dung. It helps no more than the silly masks and those stupid plastic barriers we have to endure. They were and are props for the masses to make them think they and their government is doing something, we are in this together, rah-rah-rah!
Had we allowed covid to make its way through the world in 2020 it would be in the rear view mirror. It is contagious but highly survivable. It would have taken what it was going to take regardless as all new viruses do when they show up on the scene. Common sense medicine would have done more to end this than the follow the science and hysteria-—all done for political purposes.
As for the flu did it disappear or were flu cases simply declared covid since they are very similar? A mask would no more stop the flu virus than covid. Keeping your hands off your face and hand washing would do more than anything to stop the flu.
Washing your hands will not stop Covid. It’s a good idea but we didn’t find contact infection points. Staying 6 feet away from people does more than anything because of the way Covid spreads. Our biggest infection points were churches, nursing homes, car pools and gatherings.
People figured if they wore a mask to the store, they could do anything else they wanted. Big mistake. Covid was remarkably deadly to older people which is why they called it “Boomer Remover”.
As I’ve stated since it became public, this is the reason the FDA fast-tracked ‘approval’.
If they think they’re going to have a compliant fall/winter lockdown here, they got another thing coming.
“The flu basically fell due to masks, handwashing and social distancing”
the symptoms of the flu are similar to COVID virus and PCR test could not determine the difference between flu and COVID, the powers that be classified the flu as COVID, it pay more. The were only 735 deaths last year from the flu, go figure.
“…you should panic a great deal if you’ve been vaxxed, because covid ‘cases’ generated after being jabbed are totally life threatening, while covid ‘cases’ before vaccination are nothing at all and nothing to base mitigation policy on...
this is what I’ve learned here on FR.…..”
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LOL - yes, it is amazing what folks can “learn” if they follow the “it’s on the internet so it must be true” fashion.
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Interesting comment...Aren’t you on the internet posting opinion which you believe is true?
The masks don’t work and the social distancing of 6ft was a high school kids science experiment, per the paper of record the NYT.
When a medical professional tells me wear a mask for a virus protection I can’t take them seriously anymore because they know better and I am dealing with a CDC drone who just repeats their marching orders and ignores the very science they were taught in medical or nursing school. Prior to covid you would have been laughed out of a medical classroom if you said a surgical or cloth mask was effective against a virus. It’s all kabuki theater...
Amazingly covid knew that walmart and costco’s were off limits for gatherings. We had the head of our local county health department order our church to park our cars 6 ft apart for parking lot services. When we asked how come the virus only attacks cars in our parking lot and not those jammed in at Walmart or Krogers we got the hem-haw, ahh, er, and finally they backed down on that idiocy. Stopping all gatherings was and is not feasible you just prolong what must occur with any new disease in nature, it must run its course. You are still trying to hold the incoming surf from the ocean at high tide with a mop and broom. We have done nothing common sense wise to deal with this virus.
We must agree to disagree.
You don’t need a mask in a grocery store. You need a mask if you/they are sick and in close confines with someone you care about. Otherwise you don’t need a mask.
But if you want to limit your exposure to Covid/Cold/Flu, you should stay away from people. That’s only common sense which why no one understands it.
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