How to motivate a fiercely independent society to shelter-in-place?

Control access to regulated healthcare pricing. Don’t envy China !

The United States is a society of fiercely independent residents, many of whom would rather choose to “die free” than “live bound”. The leaders of this great nation has created a framework for every individual to make their own choices and to live by the consequences of their choices, rather than be dependent on the choices of their neighbors. The spread of Coronavirus appears to challenge that framework.