The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

People having parties. Wasn’t there a wedding that ended up with a whole bunch of infections?

Anyway, people are having large gatherings, and this is likely the cause.

I suspect you are right: it's being spread in private settings more so than in public ones, where the rules mandate masks and distancing. And from that point of view, I could see relaxing some of those rules. But if relaxing the public-setting rules causes people to become even less vigilant at home and in private settings, then we have a recipe for disaster.

You must also consider the ease of tracking...it's very easy to track transmissions that occurred at large long private events...

It's much harder to track transient public spaces.  Are restaurants even tracking customers right now?