I'LL buy that but I would also offer that it's really no different than any other flu thats come done the pike for as long as I've been alive.
Plus, I would also ask how many people are going to call up the WHO or the CDC or whomever and say "I've got the flu"...........
If not the the total MSM media blitz, I would wager that nobody would care, people would get sick and recover in normal time.........just like every year past.
Several years ago they had everybody in a panic over the West Nile Virus that was killing birds around my state.