[Vic Sage]

Until broad spectrum influenza vaccines are developed with widespread inoculation, epidemics will just be part of life on the planet, like destructive weather. At some point in the future we may see a global 'herd immunity' develop but until then I think the measures taken today are fairly 'cutting edge'. Some of the personal actions that are being highlighted like washing your hands and not sneezing and coughing on other people isn't 'new wisdom' and those 2 things are really the best manifestation of situational awareness in self defense from viruses for the general public. I do think we are seeing a level of unwarranted hysteria at this point (we have had worse epidemics in the last decade that didn't trigger the measures taken with this round), its pretty clear the prediction model we decided to factor for was the wrong one but I think we should accept the people at the tip of the spear are working in good faith unless proven otherwise.  The problems we face now is the result of some bad actors, not failures in science.