My point of concern is that this possibility has been on the radar for a long time, if you follow this kind of stuff you would know that it is overdue. Have you noticed how most health authorities have been reactionary - shutting the borders after the contagion has entered and not pro actively shutting the borders in early.
Anybody health official who was watching closely should have got the message in December that this could be the big one and we had better get serious right now.
Many people are saying that it is just another flu, wrong flu typically hospitalizes 0.2 percent of it's patients, the hospitalisation rate for this one appears to be around 12% with half of those requiring an intensive care bed.
How many intensive care beds are there in your city? - Not many and most of them are already full most of the time. Take it seriously friends, I think that this will be the main punctuating event of our lives.
RB