https://nypost.com/2021/10/30/pandemic-shutdowns-were-a-blow-to-religious-liberty/
I find that pandemic restrictions significantly reduced religious
peoples’ well-being. These effects persisted even after controlling for a
wide array of demographic features, such as age and education, and
other characteristics, such as income and industry. For example, the
restrictions led to a 4.1 percentage point rise in self-isolation among
the religious, relative to their counterparts. And they reduced life
satisfaction by 0.09 standard deviations, an effect nearly twice as
large as the male-female difference in the same measure.
The restrictions were seen as an infringement on religious liberty because people took things that were not essential, made them essential, and then cried because they were restricted.
ReplyDeleteAt no point did the government forbid learning Torah or davening. You just had to adjust how you did it. But oh the screaming!