1. Medical: It's a different type of contagious flu virus than all the previous contagious flu viruses
2. Social: The unparalled fear and resulting hysteria is due to one thing: social media which was no where near as omnipresent as it is today during all the previous contagious flu outbreaks in the history of the world.
I wasn’t commenting on the flu. I was commenting on the distortion of the doctor’s conversation.