By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, was thought of as an escape from COVID.
People from all over the world went to Dubai for vacation. In Dubai there was no COVID – or, at least, people acted as if there was no COVID. There was dancing and partying and shopping.
In Dubai, you had fun. And then you went back home.
But in Dubai, all was not as it seemed, not as people wanted it to be.
240,000 ex-patriots from the United Kingdom live in Dubai. And among their friends who came to visit and party, there were COVID carriers. And they brought the new COVID variant with them.
Most countries banned flights to and from the United Kingdom. But Emirates Air flew five flights daily from Heathrow, London to Dubai.
Israel, too, was flying back and forth from Dubai. Some of those flights were even offset by government business assistance programs.
The irony! In the midst of COVID lockdowns, when only Israelis could enter or leave their country, Israel was sponsoring flights to a hotbed of COVID.
Several experts watching events unfold dubbed the Israeli / Dubai connection a ticking timebomb. They are so right.
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