When shulchan aruch forbids talking in shull... Eh who cares? When the tzibur is begging people to shut up, meh.
When rabbanim forbid minyanim, are these the people that are listening or are these the people who feel that they are more religious and need a minyan
I can find a lot of reasons for what's going on. And various rabbanim have said this, talking in shull disrespects God and he took away our shulls.
Obviously that begs the question why some make minyanim if this is a gezeira.
I could find a criticism in anything. I could try to find the spiritual lessons or I can question the population and leadership
And ask a question what have they learned from all this and what are they going to do to prevent it from happening again in the medical and scientific realm