Tel-Chai Nation

Much as there's those in the USA who've made valid points why lockdowns are doing more harm than good, even here in Israel, there's a public council that's recognizing the harm done by lockdowns is only making things worse as well, and making a call for the government not to impose another one, as they're thinking of doing in the coming 2 weeks:

The Public Emergency Council for the Coronavirus Crisis today issued an "urgent call to Knesset Members to prevent the lockdown."

The Council is comprised of senior doctors in Israel who "can no longer stand on the sidelines in light of what is happening in Israel." The Council is an ad hoc volunteer group, not funded and not politically identified with any party.

They wrote: "Distinguished Members of Knesset, the Israeli government seeks to impose a third closure based on models and consultants who have repeatedly failed in the past. In fact, none of the prophesies of doom by the Israeli government's advisory teams came true. Some exceeded by thousands of percentages within weeks. How will you even now get unfounded predictions about 3,700 dead within a month?

"The countries with the highest mortality per million inhabitants are those that have imposed lockdowns.

"This destructive third lockdown will cause severe damage to hundreds of thousands of households in Israel. It will lead to another rise in domestic violence, dropout of more students from the education system, delay further diagnoses of cancer, increase rates of depression and anxiety, increase the loneliness of the elderly and many other heavy damages. And all of these heavy costs are unnecessarily. This lockdown is wrong and unnecessary. It is not health versus economy. This is a health hazard!

"We, the members of the Public Emergency Council for the Coronavirus Crisis, doctors and experts in immunology, epidemiology, some of us have written the book of procedures for treating epidemics. We are the people who throughout the years of the State have been entrusted with the difficult and sensitive junctures of the State of Israel, in whose hands you have entrusted the civilian and military health system, the academic institutions and the hospitals. We, whose whole interest is the good of the State and its citizens, and we have not a shred of incentive other than a sense of civic duty. From our various areas of expertise, our joint experience and the synergistic vision of the council's experts, we call on you - do not allow and apply the closure!

"Weighing all the factors - life, health, livelihood, welfare, happiness, and freedom - we state unequivocally that the closure is more harmful than beneficial. The health care system is not on the verge of collapse.

"We turn to you and call without hesitation: Each of you, the people's elected representatives, who raises their hands in favor of the closure, betrays his duty towards the citizens of Israel! We understand the concern about the great responsibility in voting against the lockdown. You may be exposed to accusations of rising morbidity and mortality. We place our integrity, the long-standing reputation we have accumulated, and are willing to take the professional responsibility for preventing lockdown.

"Please use our statement here to feel whole with opposing the lockdown. We feel it is your duty, as elected officials, to listen to other voices, and not just to the same mantra that is played over and over again to no avail. We all as one body commit before you - there are better and more correct tools than applying a general lockdown, the nature of which does not rely on science or medicine. Lockdown is not a responsible action - it is a reckless and harmful action!"

This is precisely the argument made by experts in the USA, for good, valid reasons. The lockdowns are not working, and it's time to stop doing something already destroying much of New York and California under the horrible governorship of Andrew Cumo and Gavin Newsom. Masks should also not be imposed as they are now, and as some reports have made clear surgical masks are not proving very effective anyway. So if a lockdown is planned for next week in Israel, it should be called off.

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