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 wonder how many of these before we are all singing "mini tunes" while eating at taco bell, and driving cars that turn into canolis when they crash.