As pandemic recedes, we need to talk Covid
So even though it remains a deadly disease, as restrictions are rolled back, there’s a temptation to dismiss further talk about Covid as liberal hand-wringing.
Especially for our community, that’s wrong. Firstly, because for the many people from our shuls and neighborhoods who died, dismissing the whole emergency as governments over-reacting to a flu is callous — a slap in the face.
But there’s something else that the dismissive reaction misses: it’s that the last two years have lit giant warning beacons about our relationship with wider society.
In short, Covid has asked us to decide: What happens when government policy is totally at odds with our lives as frum communities?
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