Q&A: More on the Coronavirus — Bennett’s Statement, the Pfizer Agreements, and the Protocols
More on the Coronavirus — Bennett’s Statement, the Pfizer Agreements, and the Protocols
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I would be glad to hear your thoughts on the following points:
1. Naftali Bennett described a population of over a million people who chose not to get vaccinated as “dangerous” — isn’t this an escalation (or a slide downhill…) in the direction of fascism?
2. The very same people now sitting in the government claimed (rightly) that it was unthinkable that the previous government hid parts of the Pfizer agreement from the public (they were redacted) and legally prevented the release of the coronavirus discussion protocols for 30 years. Today, the government still hasn’t done anything about it. Isn’t this a huge and alarming failure? Why isn’t the public entitled to full transparency regarding decisions that dramatically affect their lives?
3. A few days ago, a study by Professor Retsef Levi (from MIT) was published. The study was conducted in cooperation with Magen David Adom and analyzes calls made to the Magen David Adom hotline. It turns out that immediately after the vaccinations began there was a significant rise in calls due to cardiac events among young people. For example, an 83% increase in calls due to heart events among women aged 20–29.
The professor defines this as a statistically significant correlation.
The findings were passed on to the Ministry of Health, and it did not respond.
In your opinion, in light of this, should vaccination for the young population — and certainly for children — be suspended?
Thank you
Sources and additional information:
1. Link to a position paper by the Public Emergency Council for the Corona Crisis regarding vaccinating children
https://pecc.org.il/docs/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98-%D7%A7/
2. Interview with Professor Retsef Levi
https://1045fm.maariv.co.il/programs/media.aspx?ZrqvnVq=HMHGJH&c41t4nzVQ=FEG
Answer
Hello Alex, good to hear from you again. It’s just a shame that it’s once again on the same stale and worn-out topic, and again in the same tendentious and illogical way.
- Naftali Bennett stated facts, which are indeed true regarding a million people. The fact that there are a million dangerous Muslims in ISIS also concerns a million people. So is it therefore not true? Since when does the numerical criterion determine anything? On the contrary, precisely because there are a million such people, it becomes more dangerous. By the way, he isn’t even requiring them to get vaccinated, only warning that they are dangerous. What does that have to do with fascism? This is exceptional tolerance that society is showing toward people who endanger it.
- I wasn’t aware of this, but it certainly should be disclosed.
- I’m not familiar with the data, but I do have basic trust in the system. A quotation from someone making claims that the system is ignoring him is not enough for me to determine that the system is in the wrong. In your opinion, is that enough to suspend vaccination for the young population? If so, I suggest you think about which of us is making decisions based on partial and biased data. You keep choosing to cite a few esoteric sources that point in the direction you wanted in advance, while ignoring the views of masses of independent experts (not only from within the system), all of whom in your eyes are tainted and corrupt. I’ve already told you more than once that the opinion of this or that expert does not impress me in the least. There is no subject in the world on which you won’t find some expert who says the opposite of what all the others say. It is certainly worth checking what such a person says, but quoting it as pure truth and making decisions because some expert says this or that is an intellectual joke and a failure to understand science and the law of large numbers.
Discussion on Answer
With God's help, on the eve of the holy Sabbath, the weekly portion Ekev, 5781
There’s an effective way to encourage vaccination. Our government has shown it to us, may its glory be exalted 😛 MK Eli Avidar, a well-known vaccine opponent, decided to get vaccinated in order to be appointed a minister in the government.
It seems to me that a million vaccine opponents would happily go get vaccinated if they were appointed ministers. The cost of a million offices, drivers, and official cars would be far less than the damage from lockdowns and restrictions. Public transportation crowding would also decrease dramatically.
With the blessing, “You shall make them ministers throughout the land,”
Shaashgaz, Minister of Carbonated Beverages
Hello Alex, good to hear from you again. It’s just a shame that it’s once again on the same stale and worn-out topic, and again in the same tendentious and illogical way.
The Germans stated facts, which were indeed true regarding 6 million people. The fact that there are 6 million dangerous Muslims in ISIS also concerns 6 million people. So is it therefore not true? Since when does the numerical criterion determine anything? On the contrary, precisely because there are 6 million such people, it becomes more dangerous. By the way, they aren’t even requiring them to commit suicide, only warning that they are dangerous. What does that have to do with fascism? This is exceptional tolerance that German society is showing toward Jews who endanger it.
In any case, even those who obligate vaccination admit that there is some concern about complications, such as inflammation of the heart muscle, whose severe symptoms Oshrat Kotler describes in the article “Oshrat Kotler: I Regret Deciding to Get Vaccinated,” on the Arutz 7 website.
The question is what is more dangerous: the risks of coronavirus or the risks from the vaccine? And since an urgent decision is needed, and medical experience regarding this disease and its vaccines is very limited, naturally there are disputes among the experts about “managing the risks and chances,” and every decision is made with a certain amount of “groping in the dark.”
Regards,
The First Undecided One
If for the unvaccinated we proposed an incentive of being appointed a minister — for those who have already been vaccinated twice, we can offer, as Benjamin Netanyahu recommended when receiving the third shot today 😛 “Third time, ice cream” 🙂
To be more precise, those getting a third shot should be offered Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and that way we’ll encourage the Israeli franchisee, who did not join the boycott of Judea and Samaria by global Ben & Jerry’s.
Regards, two birds with one stone
It seems that “Jerry’s” and his “Ben” are descendants of the Arab tyrant “Abu Jarras,” well versed in causing “waja' a-ras” [in Arabic: headache]
Hello and blessings,
As long as I’m not convinced, I’m not backing away from my positions on this “stale and worn-out” subject…
1. I don’t recall there ever being a prime minister who defined a population as dangerous. Even Rabin said about settlers that they were “propellers,” and there was a huge uproar. To define a certain population as dangerous is crossing a red line, at least in my opinion. Tomorrow some fanatical establishment Hasid will get up and decide to take the prime minister’s statement into practical channels…
2. Given the friendship between us and the great esteem, I allow myself to be a bit blunt…. If something this basic, which people have been shouting about for a year and a half, was unknown to you — then maybe you have a serious problem absorbing the real facts regarding coronavirus?? Are you fed only by television, radio, and newspapers, or have you bothered to examine for yourself different sources and different opinions outside the framework of the establishment media or the propaganda channels of the establishment??
3. You wrote that you have “basic trust in the system”… with your pardon, you have blind faith in the system, a real religious belief…. This esoteric expert is part of a group of many other esoteric experts (doctors, scientists, a Nobel Prize laureate — very experienced and well-known, in Israel and around the world). They’ve been shouting for a year and a half against the mistaken conception — but the establishment and the media barely give them a platform.
The fact that they don’t get enough exposure doesn’t make them truly marginal or esoteric — maybe only in the imagined world of establishment believers and media devotees.
And let’s leave ad hominem aside for a moment (until now, from reading your books I got the impression that this isn’t a good practice…) — the man claims there are observations here (not hypotheses, not theories — real calls, phone calls to the hotline). In practice, Magen David Adom measured many more cases of heart events among young people since the vaccinations began.
Don’t you think that at the very least the Ministry of Health ought to be stringent and take these data seriously???
What could happen?
Or is the addiction to the conception so severe that people lose all ability to use simple logic…
Respectfully