Did NYC's threat actually increase mask wearing in Orthodox neighborhoods?
Borough Park residents said, the increase in mask wearing is all about keeping the yeshivas from closing down.
An Orthodox Jewish man wears a mask while talking on a cellphone in the Orthodox Jewish community of the Borough Park neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 30, 2020.(photo credit: REUTERS/CAITLIN OCHS)