Line between prudence and paranoia?

Where's that line? 

At present, for the next coup!e months, the last place I want to need to go to is an urgent care, ER or my doctor's office.

Like some others, I'm trying to get my grocery shopping down to once a week with one stop. I consider that prudent. 

We're not order take out anymore.  Feeling a liitle more paranoid.  But not a lot, i wonder what the foolhardy, desperate, brave balance is for the piizza hut driver I see blaze by several times a night.

I also typically, prune trees in my yard.  Not little branches, 3-4 inch diamter branches. Saws, ladders, hundred plus pounds of branch snapping off.  Never gotten hurt in ten years, but had a couple misses.  Need to prune but putting that on hold.  Feels more paranoid.  Especially given the timeline in the London flatten the curve report.

Which choices are you pondering and wondering if you are paranoid or prudent?

I don't think it's paranoid. I think it's smart to not risk getting physically hurt right now.

It's both self serving and for the greater good. It's the worst time to go to any hospital due to high risk of infection. Any hospital capacity used on non-coronavirus related injury is still hospital capacity taken away from a potential COVID-19 patient.

My dilemma is I still maintain social gathering (board game and dinner) with close family and my parents.  I do worry if they are being as cautious as I am.
But without them these days gets so long and I can only check TI and social media so many times a day without going crazy.

I'm supposed to get my teeth cleaned on 4/15.  Not sure whether to put that off.  Might be prudent.

I've been working from home, and watching my daughter, whose daycare is closed.  I think that's prudent.

Riding my bike with my daughter, I wonder if it's possible to get sick from drivers passing by with their windows open.  I think that's paranoia.

My wife is considered essential and can't work from home.  Her work is forcing her to risk exposing herself and me and our daughter.  That's less than prudent.  Someone she works with came back from Italy after 2 weeks, went right back to work immediately, and 5 days later was escorted out of the building with flu-like symptoms.  That was downright stupid and selfish.

Statistics from Italy:

* The average daily death rate for Italy has risen 20% since the outbreak.  That is, if 100 people died on average on Monday, now it's 120 people.
* 99% of those who died with corona virus has pre-conditions, 75% with high blood pressure, 33% heart disease, and 25% with diabetes.
* The average age of the deceased infected with corona virus is 79.5.
* As of 03/17 only 17 people under the age 50 has died while infected with corona virus, out of >4,000 deaths.


So if you're well aware of your own age group and health condition, you know the odds.  Now the bad news:  the Italian region of Lombardy was hit hard and had much higher fatality rate due to lack of medical personnel, hospital beds and equipment.  Like they say in a famine people will feed themselves first before selling food to you, help from EU is slow as molasses.  Here in California we only have 1.8 - 1.9 hospital beds per 1,000, that's total hospital beds and not ICU beds.  Supply of medical equipment such as protective gear is in short supply and CDC has told doctors and nurses to use scarfs and bandanas if they run out:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/face-masks.html

I strongly suspect hospitals across the US is now busy securing their own supply, and doctors in California is now going on TV asking private sector to donate protective equipment, such as N95 masks used in construction industry.  At this point we can't even protect our own doctors from infection.  Staying home and abiding social distancing is not just about prudence, it's giving our doctors and nurses a helping hand.

1.  The fatality rate is 0.1% to 0.3%.  This was laughingly confirmed by the Fake News inside the White House Press Room.  They called this nonsense by its correct name, a "hoax."
2.  My tennis partner is a medical doctor. He states that the number of deaths in America this year is comparable to the number of deaths the past few years. 
3.  The navy medical ships in New York and Long Beach, California got so few patients that they both left.  HELLO!  And some of you are panicked?
4.  Orange County has 673 ICU units.  The most that have been occupied since this hoax is 65.  Hospitals are terribly underutilized in Orange County.  Many nurses have been laid off.
5.  A normal curve showing deaths  month by month has been artificially flattened by this mask and stay at home depression.  So the same number of deaths will occur over  many more months, in addition to the profound financial and emotional costs.
6.  I repeat. 0.1% to 0.3%.  And for this millions of fools panic?  Please.

They stay at home crowd will tell you that we did not overwhelm the medical system thus saving lives indirectly.