Strange that just before scanning the latest posts on this thread, I had read an uplifting story in the news section about some guy named Gary in the Detroit community who had arranged to renovate and distribute thousands of bikes to kids in the community who had been stuck at home for 2 months and just being allowed outside. What an act of tzadakah and kindness. Here were are debating the halachic pros/cons of community members who “informed” on those who violated public health guidelines because they felt their OWN needs were more important than those of the tzibur-at-large. As noted above, I think the informers should be celebrated as heroes and the idiots who endorsed this shunning are the one to be treated as outcasts.
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