Because they lie?
We believe in science but not junk science!
WE may, but everyone is not so enlightened.
All the good little sheep in the grocery store had their masks on today, following the non-science based declaration of the governor. I saw maybe 100 people entering, leaving, and inside the store, and maybe two didn’t have masks on.
People are far too gullible and easily led. It amazes me, and not in a good way. Stunned disbelief is a better description.