Of course, it is easy to see where this is going. The health care workers all get treated. They are being guarded by national guard and police, who of course will have to have priority for treatment. And of course the civil authorities who will have to organize and control all of this will have priority for treatment. And naturally, since it doesn’t do any good to treat the mayor if her husband and kids get sick and spread the infection to her honor, they have priority for treatment. And naturally the union rep representing the health care workers will need to have priority for treatment. His family too, of course.
The rest of us can go pound sand.
Yep, that’s fairly much the flowchart for dispensing medical care in an epidemic. And once those people are cared for, maybe you’ll be deemed productive enough to be worthy of consideration.
Best thing is to hunker down with family as soon as possible (if you and they aren’t sick already) and keep away from others until the epidemic has run its course. That does assume you’ve made arrangements to feed and protect yourself before SHTF of course.