The virus can’t have feelings, it’s not even a living thing and will not react to your courage. If that’s authoritarian so be it, the meaning of the word must have changed.

You know what’s part of the nature? lions, crocodiles and sharks and yet I’m not going to let them eat me. Earthquakes are natural too and you build accordingly, actually the evil governments even implemented building codes for it. 20 years ago I survived an earthquake that wiped out the neighbourhood because the previous governments couldn't bother to be evil and authoritarian over building standards.

What's up with this obsession with naturalism and personification of events?