Is it better to get corona virus now or later? Things that make you go hmmmm.

My friend and I were having a debate. I'm theorizing that it may actually be better to get the virus now (we're in Canada) than later because the hospitals currently have capacity for severe cases and then, if you survive, which is more likely with hospital care, you'd be more or less immune.

He argues it would be better to try and avoid getting it in the first place and that it might die down and be avoided all together. But, my counter argument is that unless you live in a rural areas and fully self sufficient for a year or more, you'd eventually have to interact with the community and risk getting infected anyhow. Considering how quickly and easily it spreads, perhaps it's inevitable and everyone is going to be infected because everyone will eventually return to work. As such, it's just a matter of when and not if.

My take is that even if China, for example, beats it now with quarantines, as soon as the quarantines are lifted, all it will take is one person in a city for it to go pandemic again.

What are you're views?