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.
There is no going back, ‘pedes. Whatever life we knew before the toilet paper hoarding is gone.
We will become more dependent upon our government as the feds print “infinite cash”.
People will be desperate very soon. If not already.