As one who is over 65 and has several health issues (which, BH are being kept in check with meds, but that doesn’t mean I’m cured), I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I’ve been davening at home ever since the morning after Parshas Zachor, and continuing that through Tishrei is a real possibility. On Purim morning I did go to shul for Megillah reading, after davening at home to minimize my exposure. (Purim night I did go to minyan, because maariv is so short that it didn’t seem like a big deal at the time.) Some people (who are even more health-conscious than me) relied on heterim to hear the megilla by phone or internet, but that is not going to be even a possibility for Shofar on Rosh Hashana. Some people have their own shofar and know how to blow it, but I’m not one of those people. So I am imagining/hoping that there will be some scheduled tekios outside the shul that we can go to with our masks and standing apart from each other. Each shul’s rav will decide whether to blow the standard 100 kolos, or whether (to minimize everyone’s exposure) it should be cut down to 30 – or maybe even 10.
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