But what if the Flu killed 80,000 Americans, would the response be the same?
Do you understand what's going on? The federal government is ordering all these closures behind the scenes. To avoid panic they are having states and businesses announce them themselves. They are trying to avoid the worst case scenario...which with this virus is a whole bunch of people getting critically ill at the same time and overwhelming the medical system.
This is not the flu. It's deadlier than the flu. It causes more critical illness than the flu and it's more virulent than the flu.