There is a whole lot about this situation that is odd. I've heard from people living in small rural towns whose grocery stores were cleaned out of TP and other stuff a bit before the scare really hit, and the cashiers and folks noted that the shoppers were all strangers, many with out of state plates. I found a youtube video of a family with a spanking new Jeep pickup and $30k trailer, buying up all the N95 masks in Florida stores and laughing because people were clueless (at that time). Another youtube video was of people who live near hospitals featured on the news as being hard-hit with long lines and tons of virus patients, but these people went to see and there were just empty waiting rooms and no lines of people. I've also seen video evidence that the MSM had recycled a scene from an Italian hospital and claimed it was a NY hospital.
Yesterday I read an article in an online medical publication (AAPS) by an immunologist, Martin DuBravec MD of Cadillac MI, saying the numbers don't support this radical isolation policy, the high panic level is being fueled by the media, and the vast majority of folks who do contract the virus don't get seriously ill. He says the risk to those under age 65 with no significant health problems is miniscule, so we should reopen schools and people should go back to work. Obviously not everyone in the medical community is on board with the PC message.
The extreme people are saying this global full-stop event is being used to inject centralized global control, and shortages and loss of freedoms will be the norm from now on. I don't know if there's truth to that. But whatever's going on, it smells mighty fishy to me.