Americans simply do not like being lectured and told what to do. If the government and Fauci simply came out in the Spring and educated the public about how the virus is spread and the mortality rate among each age group stratified for persons with compromised health conditions WITHOUT issuing mandatory lockdowns, lecturing, fear mongering, etc., most reasonable people would take the necessary precautions themselves for their own protections and handle it much better than they are today. But alas, the government doesn’t trust reasonable Americans to think for themselves and act accordingly. So they lecture, admonish, report the sky is falling on a daily basis, and lay the blame on all of us. So the defensive posture by many is an understandable reaction and sometimes warranted. That’s where we are today IMO.