I am a natural pessimist when it comes to myself but am not pessimistic at all about humanity. Hundred years ago, at the time of the Spanish flu, which was at least as bad or maybe considerably more severe than this one, the quarantine measures were haphazard, medical help basically did not exist (no ventilators) and there were at least 50M casualties. In some days, up to thousand people were dying in NYC alone. We now remember WWI and how horrible it was (10M casualties) and how heroic our soldiers were. Nobody remembers nurses working without any protection in makeshift hospitals for sick from the Spanish flu. We lived (until recently) past 80s which was an exemption just 100 years ago and thus are more sensitive to all kinds of bugs. We even can have sex in the old age due to new wonderful drugs. A hundred years ago any death of say 70-80 years old will not be a big deal and would be considered natural. So, I don’t see any doomsday scenario for the country or the mankind from this bug. This will be a very small blip in the history. Now, as individual I am of course scared as it greatly increases my chances to die in addition to cancer, heart failure, car accident etc. I worked hard and endured a lot and hope to enjoy life a bit in a so called “golden” years and don’t want some virus to rob me out of it. But look, even in this precarious situation your chances of survival are better than say 200 years ago without any epidemic.