Up here in Ontario, I was lucky enough to get wind of the exponential curve fairly early, so I was able to stock up on essentials before the hoarding stripped any shelves, and to offer suggestions to my family to do likewise. And, keeping an eye on potential disruptions to supply chains, such as knock-on effects from requiring migrant farm labourers to spend two weeks isolated, have tried a few longer-term plans, such as signing onto some "Community Supported Agriculture" (pay a local farm a certain amount up-front, and get a weekly basket of veggies for a few months in summer and fall) and buying some big bags of rice to store in a lidded metal trashcan in case calories get a bit harder to come by. (I've been meaning to get some diatomaceous earth to mix in with it to prevent bug infestation, but didn't think of it until after the gardening stores were closed.) I've known the dance of the preppers since before Y2K was fended off, I've just rarely had good enough reason to convince the fam to join in.

Government-wise, all "non-essential" businesses are closed down (there was even a recent story that when a drug-dealer was arrested, they also dinged him on a charge of operating a non-essential business in violation of this law) (mind you, most local chatter I've seen says that the list of what's "essential" is over-broad, including such things as non-urgent construction, and until recently, cannabis stores), local parks and such are closed, groups of more than five are prohibited (not counting actual family households and such). Grocery stores are making arrangements to keep customers at least six feet apart, including only letting so many people in at once.

The other day, the provincial government released to the public the numbers and projections they've been using to base their responses on. Roughly, if no containment measures had been done, they projected around 1% of the population would have died; with the current set of measures, they predict around a tenth of that; and more stringent measures could reduce that by another order of magnitude. There is a certain segment of the population which is, shall we say, bug-nuts crazy, who believe that the coronavirus is a hoax, that the virus is being spread by the government for nefarious purposes, and that it's a good thing to let it kill off the elderly and unhealthy in order to reduce the surplus population, usually all at the same time; but outside of that, most of the grumbling I've been seeing has been that the various levels of government haven't gotten their acts together to make sure everyone can afford both rent and food for the duration (there are some new supports in place, but they don't cover everyone, such as recent graduates who had jobs lined up that are now cancelled), and that the (notoriously corrupt and incompetent; see recent scandal on replacing stamped-metal license plates with peeling stickers for just one of many examples) provincial government has seemed to place "the economy" as a higher priority than containing the virus well enough to actually keep our health system from getting overwhelmed within the next few weeks.

All-in-all, local opinion seems to be "it sucks, but it could be worse".