First, nobody has said this is your fault, so ditch the insecurity. Perhaps a better question would have been to ask you your financial situation, because you have consistently come across as somebody who is financially secure for whatever reason. That is not a jab at you, it's great for you that you are financially secure - the reason why that matters is that you don't seem to grasp the situation that millions and millions of Americans are in. You are apparently able to work from home and observe all of the protocols that the experts recommend.
And before you say "well, their parents or grandparents will die if we open things back up early", I'm well aware of that. We all are. Wife and I do grocery runs for two different households, one for in-laws over the age of 65 that have Ye Olde Preexisting Conditions, and the other for a neighbor who I think is in her 80s. We've been doing this for almost 2 months (before the shutdowns really got going), and it gets old wiping everything down for them before carefully dropping it off (even if the wiping down is unnecessary, it makes everybody feel better). Both my parents are around 70 and have some of those preexisting conditions as well.
This thread has 840+ pages, and I was posting on the first page, on January 22. Shit, I was making jokes on the 23rd that if I was on the medical staff of those hospitals in Wuhan, I'd be getting the fuck out of there, because it was clearly not the typical flu like some were claiming that it was.
I would love it if we could try and keep things locked down like we had been doing prior to May 1st (even if it was not a draconian lock down like China, it was still helping). As a matter of fact, I posted some stuff from a state official concerning opening things up, and bitched about it in this thread, and so for almost two weeks, Immamac or Blacklab had to individually approve my posts to make sure they weren't political. So I'm pretty sure I'm in the "pro-lockdown" crowd.
But unfortunately, there's a shitload of people who are in a situation where that is not an option for them, because there are no more stimulus checks on the horizon, and their jobs have either went away, are going away, or at the least are in jeopardy, and so they've got to get out there and find work.
Hell, it's not just the lower classes either - we live in a very pricey neighborhood, a neighborhood we can't even afford to buy in so we rent, and as a result our neighbors and friends are mostly middle-to-upper class economically. As this has gone on, I'm hearing a lot more of them who are not quite shitting bricks, but they are keeping an extra pair of underwear handy. People who are making plenty of money and in a position to work from home, are all of the sudden finding out that their business relies on other companies that can't do work-at-home, that can't stay closed and eat the costs. One of the moms of our son's neighborhood friends is a real estate agent who we're good friends with, and she mentioned that a whole lot more people in the area have been quietly asking her and other real estate agents about estimates for their homes if they have to sell and move elsewhere. They are not looking to sell just yet, but the current situation, combined with possible problems in the fall are causing a lot of anxiety.
My wife and I are lucky enough that we can both work from home, and our jobs are not threatened by this (matter of fact, I have some additional work that came in as a result of this). We don't even have any debt, so we don't have to worry about creditors breathing down our necks if this goes on. We are going to try and keep our social distancing going, along with the masks and gloves, because the folks we are helping to look out for are elderly and compromised, and they are concerned. And I happen to think, based on what I'm seeing in person, and from conversations with others, plenty of us are still going to take those precautions for the foreseeable future, while trying to ride that line of letting our kids be kids, and giving them some kind of the social interactions they so desperately need with their peers.
Are there enough of us that have that mindset out there to help make a dent? Time will tell, but a lot more people than you think are taking this a lot more seriously than you think, and are going to continue doing so.
But don't forget those folks and businesses who are at the end of their rope financially.