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Does this mean it is better to get it very early before the health system stresses out (might be too late for that and this is a selfish sort of thing anyway), or medium early before you are so old that your immune system is crap, or very late when they have effective vaccines. Anytime but right now, basically.

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If you are part of a high mortality rate demographic, you are better to get it first in your demographic to have a better access to resources (or very late when the resources are back under control). The issue is not really the virus per se, but its effect on the healthcare systems. That is something health systems work with _every year_ with flu season, nothing new under the sun. What's different is _nobody_ has immunity to this virus, and a lot of people initially dismissed the virus, or are still dismissing the risks.

I think it is like with everything else - it depends. If you are in the high mortality rate demographic and your recovery is not fast enough then you may still have the risk of being "phased out" when the medical system comes crashing down with the load of new cases happening during your recovery.

The best is to not get the infection.

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