, and the consequence is to avoid millions of deaths.
This virus hasn’t done anything anywhere to indicate that millions could die. If it is deadly in any great sense it hasn’t shown it yet and it has had all the time in the world to do so starting out. When a real killer comes along no one is saying could or might or maybe...they’re too busy burning their dead.
Actually, it has. It is comparable in transmissibility to its benign cold virus cousins, and the death rate in those infected is nearly 5%. In addition, no one has any previous immunity, so without control measures, it will spread rapidly. Thus, it exhibits behaviors that have long been identified as those of pandemic capable pathogens. The number of new cases continues to grow exponentially.