The media definitely makes it way worse than it needs to be...
My wife and I both work from home, and we're introverts anyway, so this "social distancing" is really not an issue for us... it's pretty much how we live our lives, anyway. I see on eBay, so the extent of my going out revolves around dropping prepaid packages at the post office, and occasionally picking up a few perishables (which isn't what people are selling out of) from the grocery. Observing basic "voluntary quarantine" protocol is really not a stretch.
Probably the most "dangerous" thing I need to do in the next couple of weeks is make a trip to the courthouse to pay our property taxes...