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Etana Hecht's avatar

Just from this morning in Israel I got into a standoff at the post office over a mask. Then I went next door to the pizza shop and listened to the lovely owner as she almost broke down in tears while trying to contain her 10 and 6 year old children, and set them up on zoom at the pizza shop. They've been home from school week after week because they're not vaccinated so anytime a classmate tests positive, they're stuck. She's at her wits end, this cannot go on much longer!

https://etana.substack.com/p/chaos-in-israel

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"Power, once in place, does not easily relinquish itself." I had an undergrad poly sci instructor warn the class about the dangers of power using this statement back in the 1980s. I don't recall the quote exactly, nor if it should be attributed to someone, but it does ring true today and signals that we still have a long and painful fight ahead in almost every country on this planet to remove the power assumed under the guise of controlling a virus. The power grabbed on this scale is unprecedented and removing it will take much effort - the type of effort that I dare not yet define. Thank you Jessica for being a leader in the effort.

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