Dear Syag,
Regarding number 7 a & b.
Their is reason to assume any disease is effective at spreading indoors where people congregate for hours. Remember, that a lot of the early spread was because of prayer services, e. g. South Korea. Time was of essence at that point. The research available now, points to minyanim as a great way to spread any coronavirus.
People were contacting their community leaders in a very civil manner to fix the shopping issue. They were using all their energy on the denialists, they thought the stores could work it out on their own. They eventually did. And those in denial took the minyan as the rally cry. Nobody from the religious sector was advising against hysterical shopping, we had to be told that by our secular leaders. The minyan question took up way too much energy, and it led to tragedy.
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