Here’s a quote from a random stranger on Facebook. I really think he hits the nail on the head.

“Okay, let’s be real. They don’t care about people dying. They care about conformity enforcement. For them, their community told them to do something, their community dictates their actions to them because that’s part of being in a society for them — they are cogs in a machine. And seeing other humans in the same community not marching in lockstep with everybody else is jarring for them. That’s why there are so many Karens calling the cops on people going outside. They’re just going along with and enforcing their culture’s collective action. Whether it is effective or harmful is, to them, beside the point.”