Truthfully,
A positive test in a younger healthy person may not = Death.
The problem is the spread....If you were to test positive, you'd recover with meds at home. Or no meds. Honestly.
The problem with you testing positive is WHO did you spread it to...how long have you had it...and hopefully you didn't spread it to your granny or someone vulnerable---did you visit a nursing home? A friend who was in the hospital who had a baby? Did you have a celebration at a restaraunt. Bc that's who's suffering. So you do have the idea of it not being a horrible thing to have if you're healthy, but you don't want it spread to someone vulnerable enough not to recover.
"Getting hit hard" looks and feels like a total city shut down, stores closing, and it being hard to get goods for weeks, and not being able to get mobile for weeks...This is whats going on in Wuhan.... Food delivery will look different if not a new job career because that's the only way to get Food in situations like that.... We WILL have some economic issues. In Public Health, we are trained to think like this. Floridians are HORRIBLE because we are always storm-ready and can mobilize into hibernation-like status within a few days. In Wuhan, they literally tackle you if you don't have on a mask, and will yell it over a loudspeaker. They will provide you with one, and if you refuse, arrest you.
And the number of new cases are slowing down there.
Getting hit hard means that hospitals are now out of beds, (which is why Wuhan threw together a 1000-bed hospital in 1 week), and mothers can deliver in ORs vs L&D rooms. People with Heart Attacks or needing acute care will have to be sent elsewhere....So the prevention of spread is trying to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed. In Lombardy, Italy, the RICH part of Italy, the hospitals are overwhelmed, doctors are deciding who to save and who to "let go." its bad, but being in Public Health, we are made aware. The stockpiling is annoying, but can be done better.
Panic is kneejerk but I recommend everyone gather a little here and there. AND see what you can do without.