In a casino, there is little talking done by the patrons. The conversation is limited to answering “yes” or “no” to a free drink solicitation. If the patrons are wearing masks, any exclamations of joy are protected by said mask. (No, let's not go to “masks don't work” here.)
(I don't know if this is still true, but board games (craps, poker, roulette, &c) were at one point closed. In my visits to Nevada casinos recently, I've not seen any board games set up.)
Church services are not a passive activity. Part of the liturgy is to sing hymns. If you recall early in the pandemic, a church choir rehearsal resulted in a number of the singers coming down with COVAD-19. I don't know about Jewish traditions, but I know from personal experience from various denominations of Christian services.
What doesn't make sense is to block drive-in style church services. Ones where you stay in your car, and tune your car radio to the “pastor frequency.”
And I'm still waiting for some of the pastors/fathers/whatever to hold religious demonstrations.
*** “I read the comments up to this point, and I believe that most of them stem from emotional reactions, not reasoned thought” ***
I still don’t know of a Single Person that I know has Had or Caught Covid ... but I do know dozens that have lost their Business.
I grew up when there was Mumps, Yellow Fever, Malaria Rubella, German measles and Polio (I knew kids that had all of them, I had everything but Polio, Malaria and Yellow Fever myself, but I had friends that did get Polio and my Dad had Malaria that revisited him every few years and he turns 88 this Month) and this Covid crap is Zip/Zero/Nada. We Didn’t shut down anything!
We still had the Flu’s and Common Colds as well
Screw This Pandemic as it is 99.9% Politics and .1% Virus and will disappear in November
This is what Draining the Swamp looks like and 99.99% of us Approve if Draining the Fn Swamp!
Wear a mask ya Sheeple as it identifies you and we need to know who you are so we can distance ourselves from Idoocracy. (not the movie, real life idiots)
JMHO