By all accounts, especially the articles and studies you are all posting here multiple times a day, the knowledge and understanding of this virus is growing exponentially by the day. If you've seen the damage this can do, why wouldn't you take precautions, even if there's a low chance of it hitting your community again?
At the risk of using a tired comparison, meteorologists get the weather wrong all the time. Do we take their word as gospel? Heck no. But when a storm is heading our way, we've got those sites on refresh. And when it's a super-storm, like a hurricane or a nor'easter, you take every precaution necessary, even if it will end up missing you. The risk here is high. This is possibly the biggest storm we've faced in our lifetime. Why are we ignoring medical advice because they got some things wrong in the past?
As for the argument that you don't need experts to explain to you what you're seeing with your own eyes, I'd like you to see the eye of a hurricane. Some of the most beautiful weather happens before the back end of the storm demolishes everything in it's path.
Some of you play stocks. Buffett has history, and is respected because of it. That doesn't mean you always agree or follow his lead, but when he talks, you pay attention. Fauci made his career on HIV. A disease that was considered a death sentence when he started is now as manageable as diabetes. By all accounts, it was a terrifying disease and one we still take serious precautions to avoid. When it comes to Covid, his concerns aren't just treatment or deaths, but of long-term effects for people of all ages. If he spent 30 years on HIV, and he tells you that THIS virus scares him more than that, why wouldn't you pay attention?