I would add that this COULD be a “Big Deal” if, if, if this virus mutates a bit. That is what happened in 1918 with that years horrific pandemic. It started in the spring and wasn’t too severe. It nearly burned out over the summer, but then it mutated and became far more lethal. By Thanksgiving, 500,000+ people were dead, many laying in mass graves since the bodies piled up so rapidly that they couldn’t be buried individually.
Here’s a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Do I think that this will happen? Probably not. But since we humans have no natural immunity to this strain of virus, if it mutates a bit so that drugs like Tamiflu don’t work (or only work partially), the number of fatalities COULD be enormous.
Oh, by the way, in 1918 nobody could hop a plane in the morning and be halfway around the world by the end of the day. This has the potential to spread very, very quickly. The combination of potentially high lethality and quick transmission is just something that you don’t F$%& with, not unless you’re an eco-freak that wishes to rid the world of as much of humanity as possible.
Or, as a nation, we are so addled by hyper PC mentality, and kumbaya no borders tranzi globalist mental rubbish, that we simply refuse to do what is right. This is where mainstream post modern liberalism jumped the shark. One face plant, commmmmmming right up!