Who is the medical community? Here they said that the local pediatrician supported keeping shulls open with social distancing.
So a pediatrician is an expert on infectious diseases?
as New York was being overwhelmed New Jersey in Lakewood was still business as usual again my question is how do you feel that a virus that just traveled 15,000 mi is not going to move 50 miles
As I mentioned before, even in the 5T, where many institutions were following Rabbi Dr Glatt (an infectious disease specialist and one of the assistant rabbonim in YI of Woodmere), the concrete actions taken were happening much later than some here were advocating. YI of Woodmere itself I don't believe closed until Thursday night after Purim. It's really hard to say that rabbonim should be searching out the guidance of the CDC, or that they should be picking up the phone to Dr Fauci, or any other specialist. Every Rov has (or should have) people they turn to for guidance on things outside of their expertise. There simply were not the right, or maybe loud enough, voices calling for concrete institutional action early enough.
I would guess that 5T won't have been hit as hard in the end as some other places, and some of that is surely do to earlier action taken on the matter, but it's no picnic there either.
