Looks like irrational criticism of the SSPX is the norm around these parts. 
Are you tipping your hand?
The priest should simply resume saying public Masses, without regard to the illegitimate intrusion of the temporal authority into the spiritual sphere.
One does not ask permission to do one’s duty.
Complying with these tyrannical police state measures only guarantees and emboldens their tyrannical police state, and further enslaves us.
What is needed to remedy the situation is widespread civil disobedience.