*SIGH*
We’re not panicking.
What we’re doing is watching trends and planning accordingly.
The bottom line is that nobody knows what’s going to happen with this. It may burn itself out. It may be a repeat of the Spanish flu. It probably is going to be something inbetween.
In light of OTHER people panic buying, it behooves us to be prepared, which is what many of us have been doing for many years now. By doing that, we are now NOT contributing to shortages of supplies and overcrowding, resulting in an increased spread of this.
We can sit back and watch while the world MAYBE goes to hell, and know we are not going to starve.
If you want to see panic, go over to Reddit and see their corona virus threads. Someone else mentioned that and I went and checked it out. THAT’S panic. The discussions those of us who have been preparing for a while now are having pales by comparison.
I’m more worried about the panic than the disease.
I went over and posted something from the old Y2K days...”If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you are already dead....” The vitriol was astounding. Told to die...hoped I caught the virus...I laughed all the way...
But I have gone over to the CoVid-19 Support. There, folks are in an anxiety and real panic that they can’t help. So I tell them about the Gilead Phase III trials. They appreciate that and their worries are lessened.