Arlo, much of what appears in the news on this issue, including from many sources previously considered top tier and nonpartisan, is slanted to be sensational, or is wrong or misleading.
I say this after reading scientific papers cited as the sources for many such article,s and being able to evaluate when a study is useless or when the news article is way off base on its summary.
It is possible that much of what you think is true, news headlines notwithstanding, about sars2 is wrong.
That is one reason why people should get to decide for themselves what to do and not have their lives decided by third parties. Even if you think they are making the wrong decision.