It all depends on your abode and locale, whether wildnerness, rural, suburban, or urban. Me – I live innawoods. I have a well. I have two small freezer chests packed w/ various cuts of locally raised pork, beef, and chicken, which is pretty typical for me to have this time of year, anyway. So obviously I need to be far more concerned about how to keep water flowing and muh meat from spoiling in the event of prolonged power outage. This is also a consideration I would have regardless of pandemic. So…I have a generator but when originally bought it only took gas. After a few times of being without power and lugging gas cans not to mention driving a distance to get them filled, I bit the bullet and got a converter to hook up to my 1000 gallon propane tank. Now even in the worse case scenario I can run my generator for a helluva lot longer than I could have on just gas. But then the sound of a generator innawoods after extended outage amid disease death and food shortages might just trigger desperate people to come try to make themselves comfy in my humble abode. So now I have to think through wut do about that contingency.
Each man to his own, bub. Point being: THINK it through.