How much you want to bet that this is all the first test run for Pandemic freakouts and lockdowns?
I theorize that we will regularly see authoritarians hype up new illnesses to impose tyrannical control, even locally, and to attack opponents of big government for not "caring enough" when they try and stop them.
"Stay inside, bigot" will be their new rallying cry.
I actually think that if this virus doesn’t have as many casualties as the left predicted, we will never do this garbage again. A lot of people are gonna be pissed if they lost their jobs, homes, and cars for nothing.
The problem I see with that is that they will say it wasn't that bad precisely because they pissed all over the Bill of Rights.