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I personally doubt that much popular panic comes from an actual belief that it's an existential threat. Pandemics have historically caused major social trauma even without being regarded as existential threats.
I meeeean, I agree that it's not a good idea for anyone to panic. Panic wouldn't be a good plan if it *were* an existential threat. But (a) the Big One won't look like the Big One until it... looks like the Big One, and (b) the very solid global response is clearly a good thing
Right now, we only have a very tentative model for lethality, and the confirmed infection population is still at a manageable, treatable size and largely geographically contained. There are very good reasons to try to keep it that way
Yes he's definitely wrong about deescalating, I just meant that the particular comment about the 1918 influenza was in a different context, so it's not stupid like it looks.
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