Porch minyanim have become the yiddeshe version of the right wing “rebellion” against opening up the bars and beaches. Perhaps if some of this energy were focused on assisting first responders and front-line health workers we might ALL be able to return to some semblance of normalcy sooner than later. Certain issues become the obsession of a small cadre of the tzibur determined to manifest the “freedom” and “liberty’. We all want to get back to normal, but some seem more willing to do so by walking over the bodies of the elderly and infirm whose lives are at some incremental risk by premature relaxation of the social distancing rules that have been shown to work.
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