People, It's a movie....
If you were interested in things like “extinction level events” or “mass natural casualties” these stories are nothing new.
This type of viral outbreak happens regularly in nature (every 50 years or so).
I became interested when working with the Emergency Management team at a hospital region. When I started reading about this virus back in late December, it sounded eerily like some tabletop excercises from the Ebola days.
The average Joe and Jane were not paying attention. And that is OK. But when this started breaking out, I started stocking up. And I told many people that I knew to start stocking up. They did not believe it could happen here.
I had read somewhere that viruses(in general, I guess) were sub-microscopic. So how do they identify them?