This AIN’T the Spanish Flu, and it AIN’T 1918. But what it is, is a bunch of paranoids who have let themselves be stampeded into a blind panic, just like a herd of lowing cattle or sheep.
You are right and wrong.
We still don’t know what it is.
It will have a devastating effect, if not on public health, certainly on the economy.
It is coming, gradually, then suddenly. It is a black swan event and many folks still succumb to normalcy bias.
Time will tell. Only after the fact do we have to count the bodies and tally up the costs.
Without modern medicine and 102 more years of experience and knowledge; this could indeed be another Spanish Flu.
We can consider ourselves lucky in that.
I'm 100% with you on not panicking. Take the precautions, get through the next month or so, and hopefully move on with our lives without the devastating effects of 1918.