The OP expresses legitimate concerns. The near-complete disregard for taking precautions that I personally witness in the Haredi community (and which would appear to prevail throughout at least vast segments thereof) seems no better than the hysteria and excesses we see at the other extreme. Neither seem prudent or grounded in reality. (And it is fairly apparent that the latter is in at least large part driven by and certainly exploited for what is quite clearly blatantly hypocritical political opportunism.) The reasonable approach, I am convinced, would lie somewhere between these two extremes.
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