The COVID-19 pandemic

[jeffster]

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?

Every restaurant that I have been to is tracking customers. Name, Time In, Group Size and Phone Number.

I believe transmissions is coming from 2 main sources: large private gatherings, and community transmission -- no known source -- and this is from people that claim to have medical reasons not to wear a mask, getting people sick when out and about (such as a grocery store) because they were infected (and likely were unaware).