GH >> . Masks and social distancing are the ONLY real options
I am thinking at this point that we are neglecting another public health tool – tracing and early warning.
COVID propagation is “clustered” – it is one day here, another day there. Not just my words, three is research on that. That explains people who say – it is not in our community any more, and then a month later – it is.
If this is true in general, it happens even more in Jewish community: there are multiple connections within and weak connections to outside. This may explain (ltzad zhut) why so many Jews behave as if there is no virus – because there is none. Right now. And then it comes next day and propagates very quickly.
So, in addition to pressing people to be more careful, we probably need our own tracing and warning system, same way we have Hatzolah. We can’t wait until government tracers figure out who is a husid and who is a misnagid. WSJ recently had an article about Syrians between Brooklyn, Deal, etc who have a whatsup group between doctors who serve different locations of the same connected community. Anyone has such tracing/warning system in your community?