I haven’t seen a lot of younger people ‘panicking’. Many seem to be partying like it’s 1999, in close contact, with no concern for their own health, nor as to how many they may infect later.
(And as for the old people, as someone else noted: it’s not our first rodeo. Try growing up with your father storing used Clorox bottles full of water in the basement, and your teachers instructing you on hunkering under your school desks with your little butts to the windows.)
It’s a good thing they never visit their grandparents.