Professor Yoram Les, the doctor who made headlines more than once this year following his controversial views on the Corona virus, spoke today (Thursday) with Nissim Mash’al and Guy Peleg on 103FM and told who is his man of the year in the Corona. This time, too, he blamed the decision-makers for entering the third closure and provided an answer to a particularly interesting question – will he get vaccinated?
Who is your Corona Man of the Year?
“Nils Anders Tegeln, this man is the chief epidemiologist of the Swedish Public Health Agency. I have been following him for many months.”
How many dead are there? I think 8,000 already, no?
“It’s just like in Israel. In Sweden, people die twice as much as in Israel. This is an old country.”
Why did you choose it?
“Because he managed the crisis correctly. A. without hysteria, b. Without politicians, and the main thing is the only one who stood and admitted mistakes.”
But the king said there that they were wrong in the model.
“With all due respect to the king, we too have a king here who says. I tell you, the way the crisis has been conducted in Sweden to this day, is the right way.”
Mashaal: Who is your man of the year in Israel in the war in Corona? Peleg: Moshe Bar is a good sign. Look, Bibi gives him a fifth place in the Likud.
“Moshe Bar Siman Tov is already getting a place in the top ten.”
In a quintet.
“Although, I heard him say, we’ll see if that happens, that his only run is in the morning for sports. So we’ll see what happens. I don’t think he’s a politician.
If I had to choose, I might have chosen you – Prof. Yoram Les, the man of the year who said there is no Corona.
“You’re a pervert once again.”
What distorts? You said that in a lot of interviews with me.
“As a scientist, I know what a virus is. The virus exists. It causes a serious illness in very few people, relative to the population and hysteria. I talked about it. The virus exists, and I’ll tell you one more thing – mortality in Israel is from Corona, it’s just like winter viruses.”
But in the winter there was no closure and here closures were made.
“There are dozens of facts that quarantine only causes harm, it kills people.”
But the fact that they made a closure and morbidity went down. The data should also be seen.
“But note, closure can not go on indefinitely, because then we will starve. How to open the closure, everything comes back, but the damage from the closure is huge. It is impossible to stop this type of virus, neither with the flu nor with the corona. It is an illusion.”
That is, in your opinion, we should have continued without closures and without anything, the morbidity was increasing and we were today who knows where.
“We were exactly what you said – who knows where. We had to keep the population at risk. I’ll tell you in sharp words – die in nursing homes, not die in kindergartens. Corona disease, I tell you responsibly, is 10 times less dangerous than influenza for children.”
Those elderly people in nursing homes are dead, do not you care?
“On the contrary, all efforts should be invested in nursing homes, at-risk population, increasing hospitals, increasing staff, training them to treat the disease, but letting the population for whom the disease is not dangerous. And notice what happens, the mental illness of anxiety is today in government, and the public “I understand that. Look what’s going on outside with this ridiculous closure.”
Offended that you did not have a character in a great country now? I did not see you yesterday.
“My feelings do not interest me. I am interested, as a scientist, the numbers, the truth.”
Have you been vaccinated?
“I’m going to get vaccinated, I’m not running to get vaccinated. I’m going like everyone else.”