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2020-12-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-27 02:13|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 If the first and second didn't work, why do they think a 3rd will?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-27 07:42|| 2020-12-27 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Because our pandemic fanatic says so

Posted by Frank G 2020-12-27 08:15|| 2020-12-27 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Third time's a charm! *cough*

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-27 09:00|| 2020-12-27 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 It's 2029. The holographic avatar of St. Tony Fauxi (died of COVID in 2023) exhorts people to have masks surgically attached to their newborns' faces to protect against the 29th wave of COVID infections.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-27 09:03|| 2020-12-27 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Israel, wear the damn mask!

Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-12-27 09:16|| 2020-12-27 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Weren't we flattening the curve and following the science in, like, April-May?

Virus gonna virus.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-27 09:24|| 2020-12-27 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 I met a g(r)om who sang the blues
And I asked him for some happy news
But he just frowned and turned away

Posted by JHH 2020-12-27 11:08|| 2020-12-27 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Here in Middle East we have a saying: dogs bark [at the caravan], but the caravan keeps going. Israel has 1/5 per capita Covid deaths relative to USA.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-27 12:26|| 2020-12-27 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 The details that make the comparison meaningless are too numerous to list.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-27 13:09|| 2020-12-27 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 ^yea, sure.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-27 13:28|| 2020-12-27 13:28|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 The details that make the comparison meaningless are too numerous to list.

Don't tell Onan the Contrarian and interrupt his onanistic death-wanking

Posted by Chesney Grising4800 2020-12-27 13:40|| 2020-12-27 13:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Now, now, be nice.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-27 14:48|| 2020-12-27 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 We need a pick-me-up video of dancing nurses.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-12-27 15:11|| 2020-12-27 15:11|| Front Page Top

#14 #7
Too funny.

Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-12-27 17:06|| 2020-12-27 17:06|| Front Page Top

#15 "The details that make the comparison meaningless are too numerous to list."

Precisely, starting with weather...

I am still waiting for that promised vaccine. I advised at time against the arrogance.

Posted by Thorong Grundy1520 2020-12-27 18:47|| 2020-12-27 18:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Israel is a tiny country and they're pretty good at avoiding objective trouble. Plus its better to be safe at this point. I have a soft spot for the place too, lived in the Diplomat Hotel back in '83 for about 2 months

Posted by 746 2020-12-27 20:13|| 2020-12-27 20:13|| Front Page Top

#17 My two cents [around 1.4 rupees]

Humility and carefulness always trumps liberty lovin' bullheadedness, if you ask me. I don't scare of death and disease easy, especially contagions. [I'm what you might call a faith nut, just short of dancing with a damn snake in my hands.] Your individual attitudes to the contagion becomes immaterial to a State when it is faced by a possibility of rapidly dwindling populations. Especially when there is an 'enemy demographic' that is increasing and a 'home demographic' that is essential to maintain. No one understands this better than societies battling constant hostility from vermin.

So a State response of lockdown to protect valuable populations is a sound strategy, and really the only one a government can justifiably take. Anything less would lead to deaths and maybe bigger strain on medical facilities of socialist establishments, industry asked to pitch in, and economy in general than a lockdown will. In countries [especially Asian] where the adamant individual does not take precedence over the collective, people find this idea easier to accept. It's just a matter of national perspective.

For Israel
'I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.' - Gawd !

'For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.' - still Gawd.

Jehova Rapha be with you.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-27 21:49|| 2020-12-27 21:49|| Front Page Top

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