Progress through Pandemic

The Pandemic has been raging in Israel for six months and it is sickening and killing more people than ever. Yesterday more than 2000 were infected. Hospitals are full. A quarter of the shops in Kfar Saba's Weizmann Street are to let. People connected to the food industry, theater, tourism and foreign travel have lost their subsistence. They are worried and desperate.

I have noticed that the people punished by the virus has been forced to look for new sources of survival and they have found them, many for good. Restaurants are providing take off services, students of engineering have become builders, hobbies have been developed into flourishing small business. More startups than ever. In any crisis there are sectors that will profit, like booming Hollywood during the Great Depression. The stone-heart capitalists of Wall Street are right, wars, crisis and depressions are necessary features of the system, eliminating inefficient business and creating new ones. I think that the system in Israel is healthy and working well.