Yeah, it's tough, I'm sure you feel the same things I do when it comes to your friends and co-workers.
Been my favorite Aunt ever since I was a little kid. Always stuck up for me with my parents. I remember one time I was in big trouble for buying a new race motorcycle with some of my college savings from working summers, her comment to my parents was, "He's not a bad kid, just fiercely independent and too logical when deciding if the punishment is worth it versus doing what he wants".
Never forgot that! Always used it when considering reasons for employee's doing something versus what I had told them.
However, I still believe this is way overblown and handled poorly. They just passed 46,000 deaths from the flu this season in the US.
Also, if they had put Seattle metro, New York metro, Chicago metro, LA metro, Detroit metro, etc on travel bans like travel from other countries, the rest of us would not be having any major issues and it would have been mostly contained. But, this is the US, so they "can't" do that.
I think they still should and let the far away burbs go back to having a life.