Please look at the statistics. Out of 10 old people with corona, 1 will die. Out of 1000 old people, less than 10 will get corona. So my odds of dying of corona are less than 1 in 1000. An old soldier told me a story. His unit was expected to attack the enemy after two weeks. Every one knew more than half the soldiers would die. No one could guess who would return safely and who would stop a bullet. Still they lived normal lives eating and drinking as usual. They did not even mention this in letters to their families. Fortunately the war was over in one week. The attack did not take place. They were not worried when the odds were more than 500 out of 100. Even now doctors and nurses face high odds of dying. And they have young children at home. They manage their emotions and do their duties. I have lived most of my lifespan. I will take reasonable precautions. Should I let my feelings go out of control? Also it is written, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Please think it over.
I was a paramedic on the Texas-Mexico border for twenty years, and the coronavirus was a walk in the park compared to the third-world diseases that were common there. Yet, we managed without all the fuss.
We saw our first “coronavirus meltdown” today ! The liquidation store was having a sale on vitamins and coffee (essentials of life, for sure ), so we went down to check out the sale and restock on some of the items that looked like we would use. When we came back out of the store, there was a lady, way out near the road (it is a huge parking lot) and she was screaming and crying and hollering at the top of her lungs, but didn’t really look like anything was actually wrong with her. As she got closer, it sounded like she was hollering something like “I just can’t take it anymore”, and “I can’t even get my mail” (although I don’t know why that would happen, mail is still being delivered), and in between, she just let out with blood-curdling screams, and things we could not understand. She didn’t bother anyone in the parking lot, and when we left, she was almost all the way across the lot to the stores on the far side. Since the grocery store and dollar store are also open, it was not like she could not go there and shop; so all I could think of was that she was just tired of being kept home and was having a total meltdown.