This is just normal people being dumb, for a lot of people they can’t look beyond their own experience and think of the bigger picture.
I’ve had someone tell me storm warnings were dumb and should be abolished because they rode their bike to work during a storm warning. It’s just a bit of rain and wind they said, it’s just fear mongering, people can use their own judgement. About 20kms from where they live someone was killed due to the storm.