It's just a shame to see how some of us treat this terrible virus with disdain.
I have friends who have recovered and are suffering from terrible breathing difficulties. According to the doctor, it is a permanent health impairment - and we play with it as if it is some kind of costume.
This herd immaturity reminds me, in contrast, that when Jews were slaughtered in Poland and in the extermination camps, in Hungary they were certain: it won't come to us and it won't happen to us. In the light of history, we understand how much this perception was a herd suicide perception.
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I fear that in the mirror of history, we will look at this period in the same way: how stupidly we behaved, stupid wars of cops and thieves against the government, shouts of joy over our success in 'working on everyone' and playing the game under the auspices of a demonstration.
Meanwhile, Jews die and families remain miserable.
The terrible contempt we have for the death of some unknown person is nauseating. Suddenly we have become statisticians of life and death.
Fruitless arguments by people who appear to be ultra-Orthodox arguing passionately: Understand, it's not just our Hasidism that lost a few members of the family, it happened to the Lithuanians too. Really, you won. Everyone is dead, not just them. Well done.
Anyone who does not realize that everything is an experiment from God, the Almighty, in how we relate to and value the value of life, lives in willful blindness.
In the days of forgiveness, one thing is clear and explicitly written in the Torah: For I will walk in the will of my heart, etc. "The Lord will not be reluctant to forgive him.".
