I am bedridden and live in Denver. While I generally live alone, I've allowed a family member and their significant other to live here the last couple of years. And for the last month, I've allowed a neighbor to live in my house who is having marital problems.
Before, when I was alone, I would probably feel good about my odds of avoiding this. Now that I have three people (and their dog) who go out every single day and interact with people and places and don't have any real awareness or concern for this, I've just assumed I am going to get it. I attempted to mitigate things by suggesting they avoid going out as much as possible, but the response was "yeah, my work/school/whatever isn't going to be okay with people just working from home or something until it starts to spread in the city or worse".
Additionally, I'm very obese and have a back problem due to repeated sports injuries from the past, a significant car accident, etc, then compounded by the weight. High blood pressure as well. Since I can't walk, I can't get medical care unless they come to me -- and once things start to hit the fan, I'm not going to count on them being able to do that anymore. I also won't have health insurance until some time in May -- probably much too late for it to matter with regard to any of this.
Everyone just wanders around half clothed in this house, blowing their nose like a god damn trumpet, with no particularly great care for hygiene, either.
I've already accepted that the likely hood given I live in a big neighborhood, in Denver, in a very dry climate (current humidity in this house says 14%), with three people and a pet who go out every day and give no F's, I will get this. And I've also accepted that when I get it, despite being in my early 40s, I will not be able to get medical care, get to a hospital, and it will kill me.
I've even started to write down the vital passwords and procedures for accessing all of my other passwords and accounts as well as other vital paperwork regarding the house, 401k, bank accounts, and so on -- so that those who live with me (who are a decade younger than I am and who are in somewhat better health) will have them when they need them.
I know there's always the rare chance that nothing will happen. Somehow the spread in the US will be totally limited, not a big deal, and it'll just be a thing we were all silly to be frightened by in a few months. But I don't really think this is going to be like SARS and MERS in 2003 and 2009, where we can just sort of laugh and count the odds of it reaching us individually as being nearly nil and therefore kind of dismissable.
While my two siblings are young and in somewhat okay okay to great health, the rest of my family is in their mid to late 60s with extremely high blood pressure, or their 70s. And not particularly taking it seriously, either. They've pretty much accepted that because they have to work (and they work in jobs where they are in contact with a lot of people every day), they'll get it if it isn't quickly contained. And that since they're of significant age and not particularly great health, they'll also not make it. Though, that's expressed in more of a "welp, if I get it I'm F'd!" joking/facetious way at the moment, by them.
In the meantime, it's good to know that we're not bothering to take preventative measures like closing borders and ports when we could. Instructing people how to wash their hands and clean themselves when we could. Closing schools, businesses, conventions (like PAX) while we could. Slowing movement of people and things while we could. After all, wouldn't want to scare people and spook the market. Much better to let everyone get sick and then let them freak out when there's a sudden explosion. That'll be much better for everyone...