ys > I’m always flabbergasted at the sheer adversity so many people have to wearing masks.
you are right. When you read history, either BM2 or Roman, you sometimes wonder what were people thinking, why didn’t they focus on solving the most important problems of that generation. And now we see, indeed, people are mostly focused on trivial issues – why do I need to wear a mask, or have one more vaccine in addition to another 10 I have, or skip a game or a bar mitzva … The prblem is – Hashem sends us a test, and we are supposed to learn some lessons and chnage our behaviors in some way. If we fail the test by not even focusing on the right question, no wonder, the test gets prolonged.