@redneckroy :
My sense of it is some people, and elected officials I might add, have an entrenched antigovernment mentality. So even in this crisis they refuse to adhere to the warnings. So yes they're willing to risk theirs and other lives in order to be defiant.
Having said that you expect some individuals not to have good sense. However so-called well educated elected Governors are something else altogether. Their job is to do what's best for all the people in their state regardless of political considerations. As we see that's not the way it's playing out. Some of them are showing just sheer cowardice. Others are afraid to get in the crosshairs of 45 and therefore are willing to risk more deaths in their states to avoid such a terrible fate.
As I've said when this is finally over history will not be kind to many.