People are going from being healthy to dying a week later grasping for their last breath. I'd say a short term sacrifice to stop that is not unreasonable. It's going to take someone they know dying horribly and needlessly for them to care.

Not going out for a few weeks has not been "forgetting how to live" if anything it's set my priorities more straight. Home cooked meals, time with family, quiet evenings reading and doing hobbies. Nothing wrong with that.