A relative has suggested me to pause showings to reduce my close contact with strangers, and avoid letting them touch things around the house.

You'll come to find though by adding an additional 10k on your purchase (lets just saw 300k @ 4.1%) you only reduce your payment by $60-80!

Taxes and regulations were reduced and the economy responded with growth.

Label each wire and hire an electrician to hook them to a modern large breaker box.IF your breaker box is a fire prone Federal Pacific get rid of that too.Doing so will give you great pleasure and reduce cost from 5-10K to a few hundred. 

Nationwide, Q1 and Q2 2020 GDP (at a minimum) is expected to be recessionary...the train has already left the station...simply from supply chain disruption, reduced exports, and reduced consumer spending. 

If Jerry in apartment C has been a good tenant and you give Jerry a break in rent (deferred rent, waived late fees, partial rent, reduced rent whatever...) how do you stop the other tenants from finding out?

There is nothing misleading about this, since I would gladly reduce my commission in order to get a deal.

Class C properties will be hit the hardest as hourly workers cope with reduced hours and struggle to make rent.

That is what I would be interested in reducing if I was in your shoes.

If the media started doing that now, it would reduce a lot of people's stress and the level of panic.