I took a bus a while ago. Maybe a third of the people wore masks, most of them on their chin or with their nose out.
The trouble with maintaining quarantine and protective measures for a long time, people hate discomfort. They get tired of being inconvenienced and they lose the initial fear factor after months of this never-ending stream of warnings. A short-but-severe crisis is easier for us as a species to handle than a slow-moving one stretched out in time.
The Israeli government has raised the fines for not wearing masks in public areas from 200 to 500 shekels (120 euros). We'll see if it helps.
What concerns me even more, one-third of the unemployed people in Israel are about to finish their unemployment benefits days, and that includes my wife whose 50 days will run out in early July (and lots of my colleagues who used up their unemployment days while on unpaid leave, then got fired).
The trouble with maintaining quarantine and protective measures for a long time, people hate discomfort. They get tired of being inconvenienced and they lose the initial fear factor after months of this never-ending stream of warnings. A short-but-severe crisis is easier for us as a species to handle than a slow-moving one stretched out in time.
The Israeli government has raised the fines for not wearing masks in public areas from 200 to 500 shekels (120 euros). We'll see if it helps.
What concerns me even more, one-third of the unemployed people in Israel are about to finish their unemployment benefits days, and that includes my wife whose 50 days will run out in early July (and lots of my colleagues who used up their unemployment days while on unpaid leave, then got fired).
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