Coronavirus / COVID-19

[Gilrandir]

No. I don't urge people to do anything, and certainly not to "hoard". If suddenly you are required to self-quarantine for two weeks, it's nice if you don't have to ask yourself on day one where today's dinner is going to come from.

As far as I understood from posts, people here stockpile food anticipating not self-imposed quarantine, but delivery problems which are caused by the very attempts to buy unusual amounts of foodstuffs.

Abnormally high numbers of critically ill patients overwhelm the capacity of hospitals to treat patients in intensive care, because most hospitals do not operate with large amounts of this type of spare capacity. Even if just a small fraction of the population becomes critically ill, it will overwhelm the hospitals if it happens over a short time span. It's a lot like a natural disaster, except now there will be much fewer hospitals around with spare capacity that can help share the load because the disease is simultaneously spreading over entire countries globally.

All the cosiderations seem sound but when panic-driven population starts to implement them into actions it turns into hysteria, empty supermarket shelves and media publishing with delight daily updates on the number of infected. And again I strongly suspect that quo prosit is a relevant question in evidence of the global insanity.