At this point, it's clear that in NY and NJ, COVID is once again disproportionately affecting orthodox communities.
How much of this is "bad luck" vs. self inflicted from being somewhere between ambivalent to masking/distancing and being outright against it?
If you beleive that some of it is self inflicted, then the logical conclusion from that is that it was preventable. Which essentially reinforces the points that many here were making that not taking it seriously was a potentially tragic miscalculation.