@n0mesorah It seems that there’s a large and significant portion of the frum oilom that during 2020 were very quick to deride public officials, and ignore restrictions with all sorts of cheshboinois and svarahs while thousands died from COVID. Lifi aniyas da’ati, that’s your crowd.
I have only making one point in this thread. The government has a right to mandate that people wear masks when around others. It’s not difficult and it’s not confusing.
What is “an intrusion on normality”? Last I checked, COVID-19 was a massive intrusion on normality. In 2020 there was no more normal. So being mandated to wear a mask when out in public in order to protect people around you was as normal as you’re going to get.
The pandemic is, unfortunately, still with us. But I am referring to last year when it was far worse and we didn’t have a vaccine. Now, Baruch Hashem, when you have communities where 90% of the klal were vaccinated there isn’t the same danger so it’s a completely different discussion.
This entire thread is about something Dr. Fauci said. Why would I think anyone commenting here would not try to understand what he said? He’s a public official trying his best. Sometimes his best involves acting before there’s data just in case the data shows his assumptions to be wrong.