Even though his case seems to be relatively mild, and he is a young man in good health, I don't suppose Rand Paul thinks it is a hoax.  His father, a man for whom I have the most profound regard, might do well to reconsider.

https://revealingfraud.com/2020/03/health/35-sources-the-covid19-corona-virus-is-over-hyped-and-likely-fraud/?fbclid=IwAR3WrtFaZENEybBF5GquAZ3atiniPlGVdAeYnHjxciUun8zRns3PU5ecxek

Jason Hommel, the author of that site you linked, is a public blasphemer.  We would do well to not read anything written by him.  Here is an article he published blaspheming Sacred Scripture and the holy Apostle St. Paul.
https://revealingfraud.com/2019/09/religion/the-bad-fruit-of-the-false-apostle-paul/

One reason that people are so easily infected by the Chinese Coronavirus, a.k.a. CoVID-19, is because roughly 1/2 of the people who tested ‘positive’ as infected are asymptomatic, i.e., they do not show any flu-like symptoms, which means that otherwise effective "stay away" instincts of uninfected people fail to alert them to the danger.  Apparently, a greater fraction of asymptomatic infection occurs in young people.

I somehow failed to mention that the asymptomatic people fail to recognize the danger that they themselves pose to uninfected people.  This sets up sad scenarios for transmitting the disease to those most vulnerable to the severe effects, e.g.:

"After Mass & brunch on Sunday, let's stay together and all go visit grandma over at her nursing home".

In Florida, seniors enter nursing homes not only for permanent care, but also for physical therapy (temporarily) after discharge from a hospital.  Each day of confinement to a hospital bed can require days of physical therapy for recovery to independent activity, ranging from zero days for otherwise healthy seniors in their 60s, to nearly a week for each day that a nonvigorous senior in his 90s was confined.  So such seniors enter nursing homes well enough to have been discharged, but still without the health & vigor they had before admission to that hospital.  It is, um, not unusual for even good nursing homes here to be infested with Methycillin-Resistant Stapholococcus aureus (MRSA), which is a complication that those seniors certainly don't need.  I wonder to what extent my remarks would apply in Seattle.

Finally, germophobes can have the satisfaction of encountering a pathogen that really does remain infectious on surfaces, esp. hard smooth ones, for more than a week [...]

I don't recall the exact duration of that danger, so I hedged my mention of it, but that conceded, it's certainly not trivial.  And in this context, it does make the grabby curiosity of children (esp. those fuelled by excess sugar) particularly frightening.

I’m still being careful as I’m a germaphobe, but I like your post! 👍👍👍 Frankly, I’m much more afraid of the political aftermath.

As exercising due care in all situations is a marker of good sense and maturity, I could hardly disagree with you. Indeed, I am doing likewise, especially as (1) I am seventy-four and (2) I came down with a bad cold about two weeks ago from which I am only now emerging.

As for the political aftermath, grave concern, even fear, strikes me as the appropriate response. Once things have settled down to such an extent that even the Deep State operatives have to grant that the health crisis is past, the true crisis, the crisis of how many of our few freedoms we shall retain, will come to the fore. Unfortunately, the overwhelming mass of our fellow citizens, who have shown themselves to be sheep, cannot be expected to take to the streets en masse to denounce and resist the perpetuation of the restrictions on movement that have already been imposed. Besides, the hard-left activists who have succeeded in transforming US society and governance since the early sixties—sadly, whatever else may be said about them, they are people who do have the guts and determination to defy state authority—will all be lying low. Extreme tyranny has, after all, been their true goal from the outset.