I don’t have a definitive answer, but because I don’t, I wouldn’t rush into a situation that is fluid and is clearly risking many deaths and a lot of illness. Medicine is making progress every day, and we see signs of a vaccine and proper treatment protocols on the horizon. Mind you, we don’t even know the full effects of the virus on its victims yet. For the dead, it’s death, but what about everyone else? If we can’t answer that question, we’re far away from easing all restrictions.
I think there is room to ease many restrictions if everybody is fully informed of the precautions they need to take, and we are very very careful. Things like wearing masks in public, restrictions on how many people can get together, spacing, strict quarantining of positive cases, etc. But I’d feel a lot more comfortable first knowing what exactly this virus is, what it does, and what we can do to treat it.
I’m still curious if what I stated is what you believe
So you think that from a purely *Torah* point of view, leaving aside the fact that each minute of life is precious so even just delaying an inevitable demise is worth the world, we in Jewish communities should accept more people dying, possibly far more (we don’t know yet) because of the economy etc.? I’m asking, not arguing.
We rush to associate this with things we are familiar with but we need to realize we do not have an accurate yardstick. What if life never goes back to normal, but you won’t die 30 years younger due to the virus? There are too many unknown variable to get out there and infect everyone, including sentencing a bunch to death, because “it’s too long, too hard, too harsh, unrealistic”