It’s not just about you getting sick. By practicing social distancing you delay the spread of the virus. Even if the same number of people end up getting sick, distributing the sickness in time helps reduce the load on hospitals.

If you instead change no behavior, it is likely that when you get COVID-19 you will transmit it to more individuals before you realize you’re sick and need to stay home.

Depending on the rate of transmission, your individual actions can actually result in hundreds or thousands of people not getting sick (or getting sick later).

Make your own decisions here, but don’t hide behind “it isn’t going to change things”