T. Belman. Aliza Belman, my daughter, who has her doctorate, and is very informed about Corona and the vaccines as part of her work, constantly rebuts all the negativity published on right wing blogs including this one. She outdoes me in intellect and knowledge leaving me speechless.
The only reason I mention it here is because she is totally supportive of what Bennett is doing and totally rejects the attacks on the vaccines. This is not to suggest that she is right and we are wrong but merely to emphasize that there are two sides to this debate. Each must be heard.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Health Ministry must launch an emergency national mass vaccination campaign to make sure that the 3 million unvaccinated and partially inoculated Israelis get their shots.
The fifth coronavirus wave is already here, even before the accelerated spread of the recently identified Omicron variant. The infection wave continues to increase, hundreds of new COVID cases are reported every day, there is a consistent increase in Omicron carriers and a rise in the reproduction rate.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem warned Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Ministry officials on Friday that the fifth coronavirus wave has already begun and that the increase in infections is tangible, and for the first time, the virus is spreading across all sectors and age groups. Other nations, including Germany, Russia, Denmark, and Norway, are already experiencing serious, dangerous, and deadly outbreaks.
According to data from Britain, the country has 60,000 new cases every day, and that the Omicron infection rate doubles every 2-3 days. Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched a national emergency plan that includes work from home and warned about the danger of the new strain. Health officials warned that unless the government took serious measures, Britain could see tens of thousands of COVID deaths this winter.
In South Africa, the Health Ministry reported an increase in the hospitalization of children and warned that those under the age of 1 were at a higher risk of getting infected and developing serious illness
What is encouraging, however, is that Britain reported that Pfizer’s booster shot was effective against Omicron as well. This was also confirmed by Israel’s Sheba Medical Center.
We know from previous infection waves that vaccines are the most potent way to protect ourselves and our country as a whole. A such, it is also the most effective means in preventing a fifth infection outbreak, a sharp increase in severe illness, hospitalization, and death. And yet, 600,000 Israelis have not gotten vaccinated at all, 1.2 million did not receive their booster shots and 900,000 parents did not bring their 5-11-year-old children to be inoculated.
On Friday, Bennett spoke with the directors of four major health funds, and asked them to step up the national vaccination efforts, and stressed that he expected “them to act with all the tools at their disposal to meet the immunization goals.”
However, passionate speeches and statements are not enough. Bennett and the Health Ministry must act more decisively in order to increase the nation’s immunity against COVID. Starting with a mass vaccination campaign in each and every one of the schools – rather than the partial, hesitant, and cowardly vaccination efforts in a mobile inoculation site outside the school – even if it has to be forced on Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton.
We need an urgent, serious, and budgeted plan to encourage inoculation and significant restrictions on unvaccinated Israelis. The Health Ministry and health funds have until now invested serious efforts to boost vaccination, but they work slowly, insufficiently, and hesitantly in the face of a dangerous outbreak. As a result, 3 million Israelis remain unvaccinated or only partially immunized.
Such a failure on behalf of the Health Ministry and the HMOs could cost lives. Bennett must immediately launch an emergency plan for an accelerated immunization campaign, as it should be done in times of war on health. It is time for the Health Ministry in the HMOs to achieve results, and not just empty slogans.
@Edgar
Wow, two weeks later, that is terrible. Glad to see they have you covered with the nutrients and vitamins. The Quercetin is very useful against Covid, and likely all RNA viruses. It changes the pH inside the cell and certain compartments of the cell which pretty much blocks the virus from replicating in 3 different ways. The basic difference between it and HCQ is that HCQ concentrates in the lungs where the viral infection begins. Still, it does have good efficacy in preventing illness or serious illness. It is pretty much a poor man’s version of HCQ, but don’t tell Treudeau and his treatment police 🙂 .
Also, don’t worry about missing out on Vitamin D from sunlight thru the windows unless the window is open. The UV rays are blocked by glass – my cousin jokingly noted that it was probably a pharmaceutical company that specified that aspect of window glass, LOL…
@ PELONI
Thank you sincerely for your informative response.
For several years I’ve been taking about 1800 Vit D, which includes 800 in a Calcium Plus tab. For several months my daught er has given me 50 mg Zinc, Quercetin, Cumin, maybe another, all being part of a Regimen which name I can’t recall. It has + at the end of it.
For very many years, I’ve also been taking 400mg Vit E (the Shute Bros), 2000 Omega 3, B complex, Vit C 1000 etc.
I actually should rattle as I walk around. But, whether it’s because of those or not, I have caught not even a cold for far longer than I can remember.
T.G for that.
Internet articles say that excess Vit D is excreted in urine. I think I need all I can get, as I never see the sun. The way my furniture HAS to be set, sun through the window messes up my laptop screen and I can’t read. so my curtains are always drawn.
I’ll pass on the link you kindly included. The Canadian system is indeed n a shambles. I have not seen my dr. for nearly 3 years. To get a repeat for a sleep med, I need to phone the clinic , and she then phones me back 2 weeks later. Shambles is actually a kind description.
@Edgar
While you are waiting for the “perfectly safe-and-sure one”, you might consider seeing if your doctor will work with you to get your Vitamin D levels to ~50ng/ml. The research is pretty extraordinary regarding the fact that for those people, even with comorbidities, with Vit. D levels between 50-60ng/ml, they do not become ill even after contracting Covid, or at worst do no become hospitalized. This is more than taking a multivitamin and you don’t want to just supplement without testing the blood levels because you can take too much Vit.D, and this is particularly important if other health conditions are present. I know you are in Canada, and I know the conditions there are, well, pretty miserable relating to their obsession with the vaccine, so the socialized instruments acting as doctors might not be willing to do this, but if they would, it might be something to consider.
Good to hear your daughter is back to visiting and feeling better. If she continues to experience fatigue or other symptoms from the virus, called Long Haulers Syndrome, you might offer her this site:
https://covidlonghaulers.com/about/
Dr. Bruce Patterson has done a great deal of research on the condition, which is also something experienced by some of the vaccinated. He has a success rate of 85-90% where patients experienced a marked improvement. They may be able to help her, in spite of her being in the Covid-Treatment-Free-Zone, also known as Canada. Just a thought.
All the reports I’ve read about Omicron say that it relatively harmless compared to other variants. What is the truth of this??
My daughter (also exceptionally intelligent Bear), was here today for the first time in over 2 months, during which she contracted the virus, and undergoing a slow, fatiguing recovery. She brings her children -from whom she was infected- to and from school every day.
Today she made sure that she visited me before collecting them.
Some Israpunditeers may recall that she had been with me the day before she tested positive, and we all were debating on the number of days in which infection shows up, and the descending percentages of probability as the days mounted without my showing any signs of infection.
I still remain unvaccinated, waiting for the perfectly safe-and-sure one.I wonder if I am making a mistake and being foolhardy…
P.S. Sore throats are responsive to a salt water gargle, as I recall from my youth.
Glad to hear you have a smart daughter and are proud of her Ted!!
What twaddle. The virus is causing soar throats to nothing. There is no relationship between case infections and hospitalization, and deaths are nearly zero, all among unvaccinated populations. But we should choose the vaccines to save us all… from a soar throat, LOL… At what point are people going to realize that the used car salesman is certifying the used car as good as new and advising them that it will save them from every night terror they can imagine. You don’t need anyone’s support to look at the cases, the hospitalizations and the deaths. Its a very different moment than a month ago or six months ago. If this does not change, this could be a self curative measure. Big if included in that statement with the 6months promise of protection now falling to 3months and every injection selecting for new variations of a bad dream.
At least 5 CEO’s of major corportations have said to me (or something similar)
“Some of the most highly educated People in the world.. can be VERY Stupid”
So.. Just because a person has a PhD or any other degree..
Don’t get too excited…
I would be very interested in the nature and scope of the degree..
The real ability of this person to THINK..
One CEO confided to me..
The more Educated they are..
The less they can think..
I love that you present both sides Ted
I also believe that Dr Bosse makes Critical Points about messing with our deep immune mecanisms…
Chanah: Agree with you 100 percent. The injections are nothing more than “experimental synthetic gene therapies” that DO NOT prevent transmission or infection. They use the term “vaccine” to dupe the gullible into thinking this toxic poison will protect them.
You have given no proof that the vaccines do anything to prevent Corona, and there have not been any longterm studies about adverse effects. It can take months before such adverse effects show up, since this is a new medical treatment that has never been tested to the extent that vaccines are supposed to be tested. Many people have died or suffered bodily damage from the shots, though of course, it’s not politicly correct to say this.