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.
How is that illegitimate intrusion into the spiritual sphere when the mass by its very nature constitutes a physical and temporal set of actions undertaken by our bodies which are governed by both spiritual and physical realities?!
It is the duty of Catholics to obey temporal authority. Especially since what is being ordered is not contrary to moral or natural law. It is for the prevention of death and preservation of life which is more important than attending Holy Mass.
Disease prevention measures are not tyrannical by any stretch of the imagination, sir.
Civil disobedience for something like this is imprudent and potentially destabilizing nonsense.