What were you saying before Purim?
Maybe let's not be too quick.
Exactly. That's why things like פרוזבול and בעל חוב בבינונית were done שלא תנעול דלת בפני לווין.If you go to the most extreme measures, it will end up backfiring. Keeping extreme restrictions in place, when it doesn't seem to make any sense to the masses, will backfire in a way that all restrictions will be ignored. Allowing sensible reopening, shul crowd control (someone mentioned fire regulations - use a similar measure and put a "COVID-19 Marshal" in charge), making hand sanitizers, tissues, papertowels and even face shields readily available, will go much further than across the board bans!
I was lucky to be able to get into 770 this morning.There were 10 numbered "seats" probably 20 feet apart from each other, each with a face mask, gloves and a box of tissues. #1 was at the main omud, had a face mask and gloves, but no box of tissues. This isn't the main omud After accounting for the Gabbay and the few that help control the situation, there are only a few more who are allowed in by גורל or other merits. For example, this morning there was a bar-mitzvah bochur there, his father and one grandfather were allowed in. Another grandfather initially came in, but was told to go out despite sitting far away from everyone else.
Alta yidden arois fin di mikva! You don't belong here!
Who said they were exposed to a super-spreader?
Where do you draw the line? Did you see the quote (paraphrased) I posted from Lloyd Blankfein? Are you going to keep all the strict restrictions across the board until there's a safe vaccine widely available? Are you going to leave anything to the רבש"ע.Just this past Shabbos I came across the following (I will try to find the original, which is probably in Yiddish, and post, it is from סעודת ליל אחש"פ ה'תש"ג):
a packed shul with no restrictions with a Kiddush etc.
IMHO that is a DIRECT result of excessive restrictions going on for too long.
More like a direct result of stupidity.
Also something I've said here, but as much as some have made fun of it, it really does seem that there are those for whom the Kiddush is what they miss most.
I didn't say that. For one, the risk of outdoor spread with masks is very small.But seems like many places have gone right back to normal. How many reports are there of people actually keeping restrictions?
Plenty of Shuls kept the rules to a T. Some did allow a few more than 10, after clearing with police.
Hence, many.
