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> You can quite literally still gather in a physical public square.

You can? Last I checked I can't, if I do that I get arrested for breaking social distancing...

> you can still perform cash transactions.

You mean, like in Japan and Sweden, that decided to attempt to go cashless by creating more and more rules on cash so that only debit (or credit) cards are practical?

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> if I do that I get arrested for breaking social distancing...

This is inaccurate at best. The gathering in D.C. last Wednesday had a legal permit for thousands of people to join.

That’s quite a pedantic interpretation of gathering in a public square at a particular moment in time where doing so is detrimental to the health and economy of a community. In the event that you’re not disingenuously asking that question, as with all things, “it depends”, on specific local ordinance, how many people, the ability to maintain six feet distance, etc.

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