The idiots in question are endangering not only themselves, but everyone they come in contact with. This includes essential workers in transport, medicine, and

The idiots in question are endangering not only themselves, but everyone they come in contact with. This includes essential workers in transport, medicine, and retail. They also exacerbate the strain on critical health infrastructure. Preventing the collapse of critical medical infrastructure is the primary objective of social distancing. Attending an anti-lockdown protest without taking proper social distancing measures is more akin to driving drunk on the freeway than it is to shooting heroin into one's veins. The latter can in many circumstances be understood to have negligible impact on the rights of others, the former cannot. The question of "at what point do social distancing measures overstep the legitimate exercise of government power" is a nuanced one. It requires weighing individuals rights against one another in a situation where cause and effect are at best thinly statistical, emergent from collective behavior, and regionally variable (NYC != rural Kentucky). No government is going to get their response to COVID-19 100% right, but I'm pretty sure focusing exclusively on individual self-harm would be an abysmal heuristic.