Go look at those old threads and how nasty the hysterics were, and how the people who had a good grasp of this were attacked and reviled.
You are still obsessed with it, you keep coming back for days to pester me with long posts about this.
It’s over, you guys were wrong, move on with your life.
A Pandemic is quite possible. People are not as isolated from each other as they used to be even 50 years ago. The media may not be effective at getting important messages to the public. Music, TV, and advertisements are broadcast each day. People do not listen unless something is over-hyped. Large groups of people can be motivated to respond to fear. After making people fear several times with no bad outcome apathy will prevail.