War and Corona

In the past few weeks I have frequently heard people comparing this COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictive measures associated with it to a war. So I decided to try to make that parallel myself.
As many of the people that I have heard talking, I have never been anywhere near a war, so I only have literature and newspapers as my reference but I will try anyway.

Let me put down a few bullet points

• Scarcity: typically in a war precious consumer goods become scarce. From many WW2 movies and books I can definitely think of sugar, coffee, meat. If I look around in the shops now for some strange reason I miss: yeast, flour, toilet paper and hands sanitizer. I have no problem understanding the hand sanitizer but the rest seems difficult to explain. 
• Curfew: during a war roaming the streets is not really advisable due to the imminent death treat provided by bombs, guns and other armed violence. Now roaming the streets is perfectly safe as long as you keep 1.5m distance from anybody else. In suburban Eindhoven this is absolutely not difficult but if you live in the center of Naples this might be as tricky as avoiding an hand grenade.
• Home confinement: again retorting to my literary references I was thinking about Anne Frank and the confinement in the "Achterhuis" she describes in her diary. The mix of fear, disbelief, hope, boredom and lust for life has made many generations cry. Thinking about today and the many Facebook posts I see, some of the main worries seem to be centered around the oven capacity and the capability to keep up with the number of km's on STRAVA. Clearly home confinement can take different forms  
• The victims: I am going to make a reference to WW1 now. Hundreds of thousands (or rather millions) of young men lost their lives in the Great War. The lost generation they call it. Now we are clearly in another ballgame as this war is particularly scary for the 70+, I leave it up to you to derive conclusions out of this difference
• "Blitzkrieg" or years long fight?: Also referring to WW2 the public opinion was definitely divided between these two extremes, before it became painfully apparent that the situation was going to remain sticky for quite a while. I can certainly recognize this same process now so paraphrasing what Winston Churchill said "sit back and relax because 28th of April is not the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning"