Netanyahoo had been one of the world’s first leaders to put the country in an early, tough lockdown. Israel was doing vigorous contact tracing. People who had been in contact with someone who tested positive were ordered to quarantine. The gov't tracked them on their cell phones and if they broke quarantine, they were texted to go back home. If they didn't, they were subject to arrest.
Israel quickly flattened the curve and greatly reduced Covid cases and deaths. In May, numbers were low enough to reopen the schools. At first they tried a slow, careful return to the classroom.
For the first few weeks, school openings were done cautiously and gradually. But a combination of arrogance, impatience, bureaucracy and Trump-like complaints about impracticality and expense led to hasty decisions to send all of the country’s schoolchildren back to classrooms.
By the beginning of June, Israel – which is about the size of New Jersey – saw outbreaks occur in over 50 schools, despite attempts to maintain social distancing and minimize mixing between students in various classes and grades. Tracing found that infected teachers who taught multiple classes infected students in each class. As a result, hundreds of teachers and thousands of students were exposed to the virus and spread it to family members at home and beyond, contributing to the resurgence of infections in the general Israeli population.
Now, sections of the economy have been shut down again and Covid cases have soared to 1,500 a day from less than 50 a day two months ago.
But as GaG would say: Meh, what the fuck do Israelis know; they're just a bunch of fucking kikes.
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