It’s a comment, not an argument about a course of action.
So what is your point? Obviously judging total deaths now vs total cases now doesn’t make sense, just as it didn’t make sense to judge total cases and then total hospitalizations when it was clear that there was no reason to believe the numbers wouldn’t change fast. What changed then and now? It’s the same comment, with different metrics because the former metrics have been rendered obsolete.
Speaking of courses of action, a cousin in Passaic has been hunkered down and I mean really hunkered down all this time only sending her toddler to a morah with a small group and super strict protocols. The morah just tested positive and now her toddler isn’t feeling well. From what she’s telling me she’s hearing a lot of similar situations.
Well then that shows that all of the data that shows there is a very strong and undeniable correlation between people who are exercising strict SD practices and lower rates of virus (everywhere in the world, and in the frum communities) goes out the window with your anecdote.
I’m not sure how to go over this again without sounding repetitive: when the virus becomes very prevalent in a community, you can catch it even if you’re very careful. That is why we need to work to keep the numbers low and
not get to that level, because then even people who want and need to at least be minimally careful don’t have the option of living their lives at all without accepting a risk too great to stomach.
By the way, your anecdote is illuminating for the following reason: I’m loving how we’re not hearing the “No documented cases of a student catching it from a teacher!” argument being yelled anymore. Add that to the graveyard of failed excuses to do what we want, when we want, how we want, because we want to.