Disobedience started some 6,000 years ago when "the serpent" or Satan the Devil (Rev 12:9) seduced Eve to disobey God's direct command to not eat from "the tree of knowledge of good and bad" (Gen 2:16, 17), that established God's right to set moral boundaries for us as humans, being as we were created in his image, able to understand what God's love and justice is, able to love what is good and hate what is bad in his eyes.(Gen 1:26; Ps 97:10; Note: God's personal name is Jehovah, Isa 12:2; 26:4)
Since the initial rebellion in the garden of Eden by the mutiny of three, Satan, Adam and Eve (Gen 3:1-6), mankind as a whole has sought to reject Jehovah's commands, his guidance, and instead have done as the nation of Israel did, whereby "this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; They have turned aside and gone their own way."(Jer 5:23)
Now, with the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, many are rejecting the sound directive to wear masks, keep a six foot distance between them and others, and shelter in place as necessary, wanting rather to throw off the restraints imposed or suggested by health agencies or even private businesses, who may have a sign that reads: "A mask is required to enter".
Note what Proverbs 22:3 states: "The shrewd one sees the danger and conceals himself, but the inexperienced (or naive) keep right on going and suffer the consequences." Shrewd or wise people, take the necessary precautions and "conceals himself " from the COVID-19 virus, that is spread by a contaminated person through breathing out aerosol particulates.
On the other hand, those who are foolish, the naive or "inexperienced" ones, those who reject sound counsel and want to "do as they wish", casting off anything they feel alters their "freedom" to do as they want to, just "keep right on going and suffer the consequences" and perhaps catches the virus, and in which some 2.7 million people worldwide have already died and almost 550,000 in the United States.
Even if they do not catch COVID-19, they still show a disregard for sound directives, and are like what the political nations have done and will further push in the near future at "the war of the great day of God the Almighty", called Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), whereby at Psalms 2, it says: "Why are the nations agitated and the peoples muttering an empty thing (or political rhetoric [see Rev 16:13] that leads them to battle against Jehovah and his "anointed one", Jesus Christ as king of God's Kingdom, see Rev 19:11-21) ? The kings of the earth (or political leaders) take their stand and high officials (or others in positions of authority, such as military leaders) gather together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one (Jesus Christ). They say: “Let us tear off their shackles and throw off their ropes !”(Ps 2:1-3)
The disregard for "the superior authorities" or political governments proposals on health is therefore nothing new (Rom 13:1), for, as stated at the outset, mankind has been doing as Satan told Eve: "You certainly will not die. For God knows that in the very day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and bad", believing that they can be their own "boss", charting their own course in life.(Gen 3:5)
But note what Proverbs 20:24 says: "A man’s footsteps are directed by Jehovah; How can a man understand his own way ?" This coincides with what is started at Jeremiah 10: "I well know, O Jehovah, that man’s way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."(Jer 10:23)
So, for a person to have an everlasting future, a future that is perfect in peace, in health, in unity, in love on a paradise earth (Ps 37:11, 29; Matt 5:5), then a person has to do this: "This is what Jehovah says, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One guiding you in the way you should walk. If only you would pay attention to my commandments ! Then your peace would become just like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea."(Isa 48:17, 18)