1) I've seen you use Israel a couple of times to predict how the US economy will fare. Is there any data that suggests that the Israeli economy is an indication for future US performance?
2) Israel has 20k cases and 303 deaths. By comparison, the US announced over 30k new cases on each of the last 2 days, and the lowest announced deaths on any day in the past 3 month was 295. We're not talking apples to apples with Covid impact...
3) For your insistence that the economy is virtually back to normal in Israel, I don't see how that"s possible without the tourists and with a sizable chunk of students and temporary residents not back in the country yet. Additionally, I can't see how Israel would be the only country to to be impacted in their imports and exports of products. I also don't see how a packed restaurant means the business can survive another government shutdown, which is a constant imminent threat.
My point is, there's no data to show that everything is great, other than people on the street seeing activities they associate with pre-Covid times, definitely no confidence that things will even stay the way they are, and most certainly no indication that you can extrapolate Israel's economy onto the US.
1) I've seen you use Israel a couple of times to predict how the US economy will fare. Is there any data that suggests that the Israeli economy is an indication for future US performance?
There is no reason to think it wont be the same. If anything the US should be better off because of all the stimulus.
2) Israel has 20k cases and 303 deaths. By comparison, the US announced over 30k new cases on each of the last 2 days, and the
lowest announced deaths on
any day in the past 3 month was 295. We're not talking apples to apples with Covid impact...
that will not have an effect either way on opening the country. Israel had a much stronger lockdown then 75% of the USA.
3) For your insistence that the economy is virtually back to normal in Israel, I don't see how that"s possible without the tourists and with a sizable chunk of students and temporary residents not back in the country yet. Additionally, I can't see how Israel would be the only country to to be impacted in their imports and exports of products. I also don't see how a packed restaurant means the business can survive another government shutdown, which is a constant imminent threat.
They will not be shutting the country down again. If anything last Thursday (when there were over 300 new cases) they decided on opening theaters and the trains throughout the country. This new wave is not nearly as severe as the last one. With the amount of new cases (well over 3k) there should be a lot more people in severe/ventilators situations, and there has been maybe 5-10 total new severe cases.
