@common-saychel @Avram-in-MD
I see now that I referenced the wrong user. It wasn’t @goldilocks, it was @always-ask-questions
The difference is noticeable. In one shul I daven, there are people who were mostly careless. I feel sometimes that I am at a smoker’s club as every couple of minutes you hear a chronic cough, mostly young men. In another shul, where people preferred vaccines to natural immunity and this happens way less.
@syag-lchochma claimed that was a lie. Lying about what? That there were shuls who were careless and rife with Corona? We all knew these cases, even if some of us chose to block it from our memories. There were definitely shuls I saw where no one wore masks, and people were walking around coughing, while the mispallelim of the more careful shuls stayed home if they had any sort of illness. I’m not sure what part of the line I quoted can possibly be untruthful.
And for those who chose not to be moichel me, I do not believe I require mechila. There are people who demanded that everyone return to normal mere weeks after the virus started raging and long before anyone knew anything about the virus. These individuals insisted that wearing masks is more dangerous than walking around with asymptomatic COVID and that the vaccine is a lie and should not be given to anyone. I can only assume that these people saw Pesach of 2020, where multiple frum papers had to add extra pages for shivas and levayas, was some sort of peak that klal Yisroel needs to aspire to. So yeah, pro-death. I guess in hindsight it’s a little harsh, but I fail to see how it’s inaccurate.