To the point of threatening a lawsuit? The film of the pair of journalists Orly Vilnai and Guy Maroz Which went up on the Facebook network last week, provoked many echoes, including those that justified its purpose and content, including many opinions that strongly opposed it, and even claimed that it was “half-truths” and distortion of the data. On the subject of vaccinations, closures and the film of the journalists, he was hosted this morning (Monday) on 103FM Dr. Lior Unger, A neurosurgeon and network activist in medical issues, in the program of Inon Magal and Yariv Oppenheimer.
Do you have an estimate of what percentage of vaccine opponents we are talking about?
“It’s hard to assess. Opponents of vaccines in the population, there are very few. But they affect and create whole waves of vaccine hesitations, which is reflected in the measurable percentages. In Corona we started it, with over 60% refusing to be vaccinated. Now we are much less.”
We see what is happening, there is almost an already black market of corona vaccines.
“I’m not sure, I think there was a lot of work that caused it. Our fight online was very intense, it’s not just me, it’s a lot of people, groups and associations that joined, and in the end the Ministry of Health joined to convince people that this vaccine is safe and effective. In that sense, it is possible. “
Have you seen Orly and Guy’s movie?
“After I also got some threat in the lawsuit, so I’m very careful with my language. But the film, in the end, tried to show an alternative to treating the plague, which the filmmakers and some of the interviewees thought was not heard enough or ignored. And I argued that is not the case. “Criticism of the way the plague was treated, but in the end the severity of the plague can not be underestimated, and I think the response of the government or the authorities to the severity was justified and still justified.”
How do you explain all these professors coming out against the closures?
“They should be divided into ‘the group all turned around’ and the group of those who go out in front of the closures. ‘The group all turned around’ is not one of the authorities or people with degrees. It is part, unfortunately, not negligible in the Israeli public who is young and has no risk factors And he forgot that there is a very large part that does not meet these definitions and needs the help of all of us so that he will survive. “
Hagai Levin claims that vaccines are far away (Photo: screenshot)This film does not deny the corona, it talks about having to take the corona in some proportion and also see what the price of the wholesale closure we live in is.
“I think it’s very important to put the closure on the chronological axis. There are always these claims of avoiding locksmiths. There is no authority or professional who thinks that closures are something positive. Closure is a very negative thing and it is an apocalyptic solution. On the other hand, when you constantly resonate. ‘
You said you were threatened with a libel suit, share with us, what’s the matter?
“It’s not new when the tactic is to take posts or videos and pass an opinion on them. In the end, opinions are sometimes poignant.”
Orly Vilnai, Guy Maroz (Photo: courtesy of Channel 10)Who wants to sue?
“It’s not difficult to go into the post and see. But I’ve been there before, it will not be the first time, and I think nothing will come out of it in the end.”
Who threatened the lawsuit? If you can tell, Orly and Guy?
“You said. I think there was a news yesterday that showed I was not the first to be hinted at apologizing for his publications. The publicity was kept, I did not blame them for anything. I think in their investigation, where there is a division into good and bad, there were many failures in information reliability, and my post pointed For all these failures. “