This interview with an italian doctor is worth a listen if you're considering partaking in a high-risk activity right now:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/podcasts/the-daily/italy-coronavirus.html
Exerpt:
Dr. Fabiano Di Marco
OK. Every day we receive, on average, between 50 to 70 patients with severe respiratory failure due to coronavirus infection. Every single day. And to describe my reality, my hospital is, at least in Europe, a huge hospital with 1,000 beds. But to receive every day between 50 and 70 patients with severe pneumonia due to coronavirus, it’s impossible. You have to change your organization day by day.
Michael Barbaro
And tell me what you mean. How do you have to change your organization to deal with people who are in such severe respiratory condition?
Dr. Fabiano Di Marco
So we change it, the normal ward, mainly surgery wards, because the activity of surgery has been reduced off at least 80 percent. And we transform it, so far five wards of surgery for patients with coronavirus. Now we have, between the five wards and the emergency room, at least 350 patients with respiratory failure due to coronavirus infection.
Michael Barbaro
Wow.
Dr. Fabiano Di Marco
Today is the first day in which we have more than 50 percent of the hospital dedicated to coronavirus patients. To organize these, we had to teach cardiologists, dermatologists, rheumatologists — specialists of something very different from respiratory failure — how to treat this patient. You try to find a solution. But day by day, it’s no longer enough. So I can tell you that my colleagues, both physicians and nurses, they cry every day.
Michael Barbaro
Wow.
Dr. Fabiano Di Marco
I’m 47. I’m not so, so old to be the head of a ward, at least in Italy. But I have with me 20 colleagues who are respiratory physician, with many fellow. They are 27, 30. So for me, it’s a huge responsibility. And I was scared they can be sick. OK? But we cry every day. And now, we have today, 460 nurse at home because they are sick. And I think we have —
Edit: a little more, and important:
Michael Barbaro
It sounds like you’re saying that once you are in a hospital as a doctor, looking at a room full of people with this virus, overwhelmed, it’s too late. That the role of countries who are not yet at the place Italy is in is to make sure they don’t ever get to that place, don’t ever get to the point that your hospital is at. And to do whatever it takes to not get there.
Dr. Fabiano Di Marco
Absolutely. You have two choices. You decide to not close all the activities, close the people in their home, and you will accept thousand of beds. Or, you have to close all the activity. There is not a choice in between. I know this is difficult to have this approach, because also in Italy, if you speak with my colleague in another town, it’s quite difficult to understand this. Because many people, including many physicians, have not this perception of this. Because in your reality, all is normal. It’s difficult to be scared for something you have not the perception. OK? So I can understand that in other countries, it’s the same. But trust us, or, such as in Bergamo, each family will have a relative or a friend who dies. This is the situation in Bergamo. This is not a disease that you can discuss on TV, or you will have the perception of this in your family, in your relative, in your town. It’s something very aggressive, very aggressive.
for an articulate, well presented post. What’s happening with BARF? Y’all are growing up!
Yeah riding your bike is gonna spread the pandemic. You people are actually convinced that the off chance you crash your motorcycle its gonna worsen the pandemic? What???? Its honestly pathetic that the media and government has turned everyone into a bunch a babbling idiots. This is not going to end in a few weeks. I'm far more concerned with the ramifications of destroying our way of life for this long and having all my rights taken, than this disease. People can't work, they won't be able to buy food in a few weeks. Looting and marshal law will likely be next. I'm starting to think this half baked solution is worse than the problem. 
