I think the generalizations are making a lot of drama.
1. There are people who don’t want to continue isolating after TWO MONTHS of it and they are being accused of not isolating.
2. Although many people had very mild cases, many, many of those people who didn’t get “really sick” suffered terribly. Some say it was the worst pain of their lives, that they wanted to die, that they thought they would die etc. These are quotes from those who “just got sick but didn’t have to go to the hospital”
3. Isolating and social distancing is NOT intended to eradicate the disease, just stagger the infections. So new cases are expected and mostly unpreventable in the LONG term. We must prevent it from spreading to the high risk population, but there was never a possibility of making it go away by staying home. Don’t blame new infections on people as if they weren’t part of the plan.
4. Finances is NEVER a good reason to put any lives at risk. Suffering long term health and emotional damage from losing everything on the other hand is a legitimate reason to weigh which is the lesser of two tragedies. But people saying the economy overall is worth more than a life are nutcases.
5. Saying a medication is safe or not safe is irrelevant at this time. Is chemo safe? would you give it to your kid as a booster? No. When doctors provide medications they do so in terms of the risk of taking it versus the risk of not taking it in terms of what is currently going on in the persons physiology. Something being safe for lupus means it’s better than what lupus has to offer. Something being safe for Covid19 just needs to be better than what the risks of covid are offering.
6. Although not everyone followed the social distancing/quarantine, most people did. And just because the news says it was a jewish problem, that doesn’t mean it was, cuz there are plenty videos to show it wasn’t.
7. Just because it was necessary to stop minyanim and yeshivos from meeting, doesn’t mean that avodas Hashem is not the absolute priority in our lives and what really sustains us. The ones who mistakenly took that fact to mean it is okay to put others at risk are no worse than those who wish to continue to put the physical precautions over spiritual actions when it is no longer proscribed.
7a. Not a lot of care was taken to even clarify if people were put at risk in the minyanim
7b. Not a lot of the people screaming about minyanim opened their mouths even once about grocery shopping in big chains
7c. Sometimes we really do have to follow health guidelines even when they infringe on what we believe is right. Follow your Rav, and check your motives.
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