An alternative theory from the sage words of none other than our founding fathers: Those willing to trade security for liberty are deserving of neither. Perhaps dial back your rhetoric that those of us who think using the statistics and not the panic are stupid a-holes. Might I, in the alternative, suggest you become bubble boy from Seinfeld. If you know what you walked past everyday of your life, you would not get out of bed in the morning. But why this? Why now?
In the words of scripture: Vanity of vanities there is NOTHING new under the sun. And this pandemic is acting just like the ones before it — and yet, you probably were not panicked about those. Why now?
If the frail, infirm and old die of this some of it will be on your hands. Very Christian of you.
Doctor or not, you are minimizing this and encouraging people not to modify behavior short term. China, Korea and Italy would not have virtually shut down their economies to deal with this if there was not a serious risk. Panic, no. Change behavior to what it should have been in the first place, yes. Additionally avoiding situations where mass infection is possible, yes. Forcefully quarantining infected unwilling to self quarantine and having consequences for breaking self quarantine, yes. You of all people should support this but your libertarian streak overwhelms reason.