As you can see the mortality rate isn't that high, the problem isn't it. The main problem with the corona is that it have a high hospitalization rate (12%, more or less) which can cause the whole health system to crash if everyone get it at the same time.
Using Italy as example, they went from 224 cases in Feb 24, then 470 in Feb 26, then 887 in Feb 28 to 9.172 in March 09. Now even with all the containment measures they had 17.660 cases in March 13, it spreads rapidly if let alone.(
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...country/italy/)
Now using the US as a example, if only 2% of all population get sick you will need to hospitalize close to 785.000 people. Imagine that many people sick at the same time (or close) when the US "only" have 540,668 staffed beds and 94,837 ICU beds. (
https://www.sccm.org/Communications/...are-Statistics)
It would crash the whole health system for sure, even people with all kinds of other problems would die because of how many people are admitted at the same time.
So, if in one hand we shouldn't freak out, on the other hand we do have to take precautions, because if it really spread out fast you or even someone close to you could die without receive proper medical care, even if it's not corona related, because the hospitals are overcrowded.