A lot of fear is being instilled in people to get them to hide - and thus protect the Health Care Community from what they fear most - their hospitals being overrun.
And it's not impossible, where both large urban areas and small rural areas are ALL at risk. There is no 'safe zone'...
There's nothing very common about this thing.
Who it attacks, why, the symptoms presented (or not at all), the incubation, the virulence, the prevalence, the fatality. This shit is all over the map......
We know for certain that old people with comorbidities are most susceptible...
well, wow. That's weird...that never happens...
But what else? Is it blood type?
I read a great study some time ago about Viral Interference from Flu vaccines, particularly aimed at Coronaviruses. What percentage of flu shot patients got COVID?
People with HIV are especially vulnerable, it seems...
I've got friends in hospitals in Montreal, Vancouver, Detroit, NYC, Miami, Phoenix, LA, SF...
I talk with all of them when they have a chance...
It's busy for most of them. Even specialists have all hands on deck though they aren't doing much of their specialty work.
Only my friend in NYC was panicked...
I get it and I sympathize....We are dealing with an unknown, strange virus.
We don't really know how it came to be, if it was intention or accidental.
Not relevant, perhaps, at this moment. But certainly bears consideration.