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.
It's quite brilliant actually. I'm suprised how many people are willing to go along with it because that's the only way it works. It's like this is a test run