COVID in simplistic terms ....
Serious cases are more likely to be in the elderly, retired, population. They are mostly in receipt of pensions so are economically secure. They are frightened by the potential impact of the virus on them and therefore mostly believe that the everyone should stay indoors and the world should stop until the virus is eradicated.
The rest of the population is less likely to be affected seriously, they mostly have rent or mortgage payments and want to recover their economic situations and their “right to party”. They want the older generation to stay indoors, allowing the rest of the world to move on and get back to the “new normal” as soon as possible.
In the middle is the government who are trying to walk a tightrope between the two views.
That fairly much sums up the debate on this thread as well.