[arasina]

I said earlier, he is an idiot, or he did it on purpose.

Hasidic Jews make up nearly 65 percent of the total population in Williamsburg. (This might fit your on-purpose theory.)

However, there is "gentrification" going on there now as well, which means liberal hipsters have moved in. (This would fit your he's-an-idiot theory.)

I'm going with the latter.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Hasidic Jews make up nearly 65 percent of the total population in Williamsburg."

I would think observant Jews would have some degree of behavioral insulation and protection. Since last spring/summer when this latest outbreak started to erupt and I was reading about its spread in Africa being largely attributed to their handling of the dead, I started thinking about Numbers 19:11-22.

For something written a few thousand years ago, it actually outlines a pretty sophisticated decon procedure and puts in place "protocols," at least as good as anything the CDC has come up with.