Sorry this comes to mind...
‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.’
All the cool hospitals are reporting corona, all the big hospitals are reporting corona, what's to say that influenza death isn't corona? It matched the symptoms.. who's going to dig up a body and test it? The hospital is already loosing money because elective surgeries are shut down, do we get more money declaring a death Corona?
Governments? All the cool cities are reporting corona, all the big cities are reporting corona.. etc, etc. All the cool cities are shutting things down, all the big cities are shutting things down. You don't want to be the mayor that killed everyone because you didn't shut down do you? Hey do you want to make a name for yourself? You could shut down harder than any other city! think of all the media attention, you'll have your name out there and maybe next election you can run for Governor!
Religion? That's a good question, getting told by political and medical institutions that the end of the world is here. Do you rely on your $DEITY to save you? In the case of the local church based out of Salt Lake, you look around at the 70+ year old leaders and read the Corona target audience and get nervous? the Russian proverb comes to mind "Trust in God but keep rowing to shore". It's only supposed to be a brief shutdown, it's not like we're going to be giving up for 3 months, this will just be brief.
I said earlier in the thread this will go on until people decide it isn't going to any more. You have freedom to decide for yourself, maybe you're older, overweight, diabetic, have lung problems, prone to infection, etc, maybe you're going to decide to sit this one out and watch from home, you have a job that allows you to work from home, have plenty of savings and supplies to last until 2022, you're going to do what you believe is best for you.
Maybe you're a 24 year old former football player with a new wife and a kid on the way and you've got to pay the bills, don't have any savings and quite frankly don't have a lot of options, you are healthy, and do 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and run 10K every day and quite frankly don't fit the target profile for corona. do you sit home and wait for the bill collectors? It's easy to say everyone stay home when you can still collect a paycheck sitting at home, it's harder to say I'm staying at home when you don't have any other options.
Everyone has their own level of risk comfort, decide what yours is. Understand that other people may not have the same level you do. As levels of risk are pushed on individuals that don't match their comfort level this is where push-back occurs. The news flashes 129 new cases of corona, is that good? is it bad? How many of them ended up in the hospital? How many people can the hospital handle? How many are there now? That's why we are isolating right? to keep from overwhelming the hospitals, an honest reporter would say IHC is at XX% of capacity, have you ever heard that number? Or are the nurses too busy doing stupid Tik-tok videos encouraging you to stay home because they don't have anyone there?