Reasons for Suicidal to expend energy to avoid COVID
1) Avoiding COVID is also avoiding becoming a vector for COVID to infect others, its not just about you its about others.
2) COVID is a remarkably unpleasant and painful way to die with no guarantee it will get the job done.
3) The likelihood is that you WONT die from COVID, but there is a far higher likelihood that you will have lasting symptoms/damage which will just make your life worse. (Organ Damage, Stroke, Long Covid etc)
4) If you are seen ignoring COVID you could be labelled the same as all those "people" out there who throw a fit when told to wear a mask or think its a conspiracy theory, that's not what I would want people's last impression of me to be.
5) You may have a specific preferred way you would want to go (I know I do)
6) You may be trying to sort out some final business, like life insurance or a will or an adequate suicide note so that your death causes others the least pain possible.
7) Suicide may be all about you taking control of the one thing in this life you can actually control, how you die, and to get COVID would just rob you of that one last measure of control.