Why would I need to depend on them, I am a survivalist.
But do I think that if the county health officer puts a quarantine sticker on a family’s door, and explains to them that they are infectious and to not leave the house for 30 days, while health people check up on them and bring food, that it means that in reality they are going to sit in the house and starve to death while life goes on outside their window? No I don’t.
Handful yes you are right, but what if movement is restricted in whole cities? What if it isn’t they are restricted enough, but you know that there are multiple cases. Are you going to conduct business as usual not knowing if the person you just bought a gallon of milk and a pack of gum is infected?
This won’t be a handful of outlaying houses it will be whole cities.