Lotta good stuff there Mr. P. This could get sorta disjointed because, well, I'm disjointed.

CV is a little different from the flu we are used to. A huge part of the FUD is that it is not really related, but just sprang into being about 6 months ago. There is no vaccine, there is no known treatment. We have no real idea if getting it once gives you immunity for any appreciable amount of time. It's just too damn soon to know...

Flu has the good grace to kill people relatively quickly so they don't infect so damn many people between symptoms and dead. CV is transmissible for up to 48 hours before the first symptom then it takes an average of 3 weeks to die. Ties up a hell of a lot of hospital space and time...

So, it's got some differences and it's just damn scary to the medical folks. Which transmits to general fear in we the people. To compound that, we got to see the 'panic buying' and 'hoarding' behavior sweep the general population. When there is fear in 'we the people' you can bet your ass that the pols will respond. Nobody better equipped to feel the slightest of breeze blowing.

Our infection rate in the US is doubling every 3.5 days. Which means if not interrupted we'd get the effects of a 8 month flu season in one month, rather than spread out. And so far, there is no indication that CV virus will go inactive in the warm weather like flu.

Vaccine: You've taken one more flu shot in your life than I have. Of course I've run the numbers and prefer to take my chances without. I've had two really good hard cases of flu (and a whole bunch of modest cases) in my adult life. Will I take a CV shot? Probably not, but I reserve the right to change.

So what am I saying? I don't know. I can certainly see your 'lets go back to work' idea and take our death toll and move on. I can also see trying to maximize our chances as a nation. It's not at all hard to see a death toll in the US over 100,000 by 2021. That's a lot.

And the entire scariest part? It'd be relatively easy to tweak CV19 virus into CV20 or 30 and turn it loose on the earth again. I'm guessing more than one terrorist leader has had that thought...