These aren't תנאים or אמוראים. They are all alive and could be asked.
But it’s unfair to accuse them of creating a stirah when there is a perfectly reasonable way to understand what they meant (even if it doesn’t line up with what we previously believed). Presumably they are intelligent enough to have thought of that themselves.
If only these guys would admit to "we don't know or understand anything, we're just trying our best out of an abudance of caution because no human really knows or understands this virus" I think they (and the Gedaliah Society in Crown Heights) would have more credibility and adherence.
Ein Od Milvado. That said, with this as with many diseases, there is actually a lot that *is* known (that the average guy on the street doesn’t know). Humility is great, but decisive statements are better than humble ones when the prevailing attitude is “nobody knows anything, so I’ll do whatever I want”.
Why do you insist on requiring everyone to adhere to a zero level of knowledge? Surely you acknowledge that there is much already known?
