@Pawprints1986 this is not over-reacting. Just look to Italy, Spain, and NYC to see what too little, too late brings. It brings overloaded hospitals and overloaded morgues. These are facts. The whole point of trying to get everyone possible to socially isolate is to flatten the curve. A lot of people may misunderstand. They are not trying to prevent everyone from getting this virus--they are trying to prevent everyone from getting it at the same time. When everyone gets it at the same time (again, look at those regions I mentioned and many more for examples), mortality rates rise noticeably.
Does it suck that this is going to drag on for months to years to come? Absolutely. But this extended timeline is the only way to help reduce the mortality rate, by letting everyone that needs medical attention to get the resources they need rather than being turned away by a lack of medical supplies, equipment, or personnel to care for them.
I get that you're disappointed. Take comfort in the fact that this epidemic is an equalizer, and literally everyone is feeling the same right now. I'm very, very glad that the concert your were looking forward to will be cancelled or postponed, and you should be too--particularly so given that you say you're in a higher risk category due to pre-existing condition. Please, be patient and wait this thing out.
I forgot to address your comments about other outbreaks in recent history. SARS-COV2 (the name of the virus that causes COVID-19) is a far more contagious virus. For every person that gets it, the average is they infect 2-3 additional people, which is exponential growth of infected individuals. The mortality rate is actually lower than it was with MERS, but the infection rate is much higher. A smaller percentage of a much larger pool of people means a lot more people are going to (and have already) died from COVID-19 than from SARS, MERS, mad cow, h1n1, etc.
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