Eventually a loved one will succumb regardless. 20 months into this and we still have a 99% survival rate of those infected. But we act like 1/4 of the population is in huge funeral pyres.
My problem with all of this is you cannot trust at face value anything the govt and anyone repeating them says. They have been proven to be lying all through this, not conspiracy theory 'proven', but being outed publicly cooking statistic reports, and lying about the 'crisis' in multiple ways. Which of course plays right into the underground disinformation effort, so you get false perceptions from all sides. Treat this like a real SHTF scenario, use your eyes and good judgment, and don't just follow advice because it's voiced by Morgan Freeman or echoes what you want to hear.