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> So being locked down and having shuls and schools closed to you is as bad as keeping a piece of paper on your face.
I understand your point. I have no problem with people trying to do things responsibly, even if disagree on specific risk/reward estimates.
There is a difference between people who are forced to eat non-kosher when conscripted into Czar’s army and those who buying a BigMac because it is cheaper. Same here.
The new thing I see now is that people are really tired of the magefa and everyone around them getting “natural immunity” a couple of times, so they psychologically turned it off. I saw recently an elderly rov in K-95 davening with great kavana on the outside side of the minyan, standing at a 2-person table with 3 more tables nearby. A just slightly younger unmasked person comes in and sits down at the same table, spreading subway style half-way towards the other one. The elderly rov, gently moves away (not to offend?) and continues standing without a chair/table.
What gives? I think – there are some derech eretz issues that are well-known and people are trained from childhoold: don’t step on someone else’s feet, makom kavua, wear pants in public … and then there are some that pop up a new and only people who think about mitzvos consciously do them. Others reveal their inner am-haaertz. As my (non-MO) Rav suggested – you land in Israel, take an Uber, get to a destination, pay him without thinking and go. Wrong. You should stop and register that you are doing a mitzvah of paying a worker on time, l’shem ..