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Well, my next door neighbor is an infectious diseases doctor of like 35-40 years, and I have a good friend who is a nurse that works the respiratory wing in the hospital, so she's been involved since the beginning (and has had COVID). I can assure you that it's very real and that the warnings are warranted. That said, many people have panicked when they shouldn't. They should understand the medical advice and follow it, but not freak out. It's a statistics and vectoring issue at the end of the day, so if everyone does what they're supposed to, we get back to some kind of normal life faster.

If you live some place more rural, then there's likely not a very big threat, and people's behavior probably doesn't need to be greatly modified. But in the city...yeah, with the population density and what happens with any scenario of a highly contagious and significantly virulent disease, some significant guidelines and behaviors are necessary to keep things from getting out of hand.

Our emergency rooms in Houston went into emergency overflow mode twice, but fortunately still stayed within controllable parameters. A few hours away in San Antonio, things were so bad that they were hauling in refrigerated 18-wheelers to use as extended/portable morgues.