Here’s your dilemma to ponder: if racing is starting in CT and NH in July, but MA is still restricting people to groups of 10 or less with masks, but unrestricted travel to and from MA from NE/NY/NJ is now permitted, what are the ethics there? And what is the point of anything?

This shouldn't be much of a dilemma. Transmission rates in MA are low because we're still social distancing and wearing masks (mostly). I'm not going to another state and following their less restrictive rules and then coming home after.

There are no good studies or data on transmission in a pack. You should assume if someone has COVID in your peloton, and you're all unmasked, you're exposed. Of course you can't know. But do you want to be the case study?

I personally am not planning to wait until there's a vaccine to start racing again. Which means the line I will draw will be based on some kind of trend or point where transmission is low, new cases are low, deaths are low. I don't know where that line is for me yet. Fall?

It's clear based on reopening trends in other places that that time isn't right now, though. Mass start racing shouldn't be happening yet. Unmasked group riding shouldn't be happening yet. Reopening is based on economic pressure and hospital capacity more than health.

The question the government is asking is "can we balance the cost to the economy with the number of hospital beds available if people get sick." If you're doing that math against your desire to race bikes right now, it's the wrong math, IMO.

Again, in MA, the rule for riding is groups of 10 or less, masked when not socially distant. Outside of a protest ride I did, I've only ridden with two other people so far, on two separate rides. In that context, a pack of strangers racing w/o masks is fucking bananas to me.