re: #52 Naso Tang

Debka has more details. However I want to ask a question if someone is from Israel. Most reports of attacks with or without injury speak of people being treated for shock.

Now I don’t trivialize the situation, but nobody is more used to the possibility of random attacks that Israelis and it seems somehow strange that people are routinely shocked even when not injured, to extent that they are treated for it, although I don’t know what that treatment entails.

Is this a language thing?

I’m not from Israel, but based on knowing a bunch of Israelis and reading the press, it’s not really unusual. People have panic attacks in response to the sirens or the event triggers PTSD-type symptons. Older people have been known to have heart attacks in response to the stress—they’ve lost a few people that way. It’s sort of a mild form of shell shock I suppose.

I expect it happens all over the world in war zones, but in Israel, the situation is close enough to stable that people get treatment. Treatment follows normal patterns for shock—get their feet up, make sure they’re warm, put fluids in them.