Thursday, July 29, 2021

mask up?

For those in the ""the Torah is more machmir than the health authorities"" camp, now that the new CDC guidelines are out recommending masks even for those who have been vaccinated, when will your shul be re-imposing the mask requirement? (That is, assuming they lifted it, and assuming your shul reopened.) 

In fact, one could argue that pikuach nefesh demands that we get ahead of the curve and start locking things down before the Delta variant really starts making inroads in the community.  Why expose anyone to even a remote safeik sakana?

As one of the YU Roshei Yeshiva has previously written, "And yet the signs of the unfolding, dangerous wave are - at any rate, should be - unmistakable. The positivity rate continues to increase, the situation in neighboring states is even worse, the behaviors and businesses fueling the increase are not being (adequately) checked, etc. We must be רואה את הנולד, recognize the unfolding process. Both personally and communally we must adopt aggressive preventative measures."

If this is the shita you hold by, I don't know what you are waiting for.


2 comments:

  1. For those in the ..
    .. one could argue ..
    If this is the shita you hold by ..
    I'm not sure, but I think I detect some ambivalence here.

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  2. Teretz is that the vaccine changes everything

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