“I don’t care how scared you were, there are certain lines you don’t cross.”
You almost made sense until this line.
People weren’t scared, their lives were in actual danger. There was no way to know they would get a mild case. Were they makpid not to go anywhere other than minyan so as not to expose people?
You started a hock here for fun without half of the necessary onformation.
If a man who is dying insists on fasting on Yom Kippur is he stupid or also a hero for upholding halacha?
I sometimes wonder whats worse, a moser who brings bad behavior to the authorities, or a yid who brings these stories here to enjoy machlokes.