I'm only guessing, but I don't think this is likely. To the contrary, I think you are being downvoted by people who think you aren't taking the virus seriously enough. They fear that your approach will be used by people who want open up the economy before it's safe, feel you are being presumptuous in thinking you as an individual can change the outcome of the disease, and believe the best we can do is to trust the official experts. I think it's political. I think you are essentially being hit by "friendly fire" by people who think you are aiding the enemy. But this is only a guess, assuming the downvotes correspond to the negative comments. It would be nice to know what people are actually thinking.
a "beat up" ?
they think it's fake, basically
How do people like that have down voting ability on hn? I thought that was the point of having to earn it.
The ability to downvote isn't correlated with anything besides the frequency of your posts/comments.