(apologies to Admins)
For some reason (too much Bacardi maybe) I just started watching "On the Beach", the 1959 Gregory Peck/Ava Gardner version. Directed by Stanley Kramer, who knew? Anyway, made me realise, no matter how bad it gets with the bug, it's still so much better that what people in 1959 had to deal with. Yeah, it was just a movie, and it wasn't a pathogen, just good old lethal radiation, but they could have woken up the next day and it would have become real. We don't have that. No matter how bad it gets we WILL have a vaccine and then it will just fade away, just like SARS/MERS/Ebola/H1N1 and I don't know how many others. Technology has made an incalculable difference for us. Watch "Virus" from 1980, a Japanese view of a global pandemic, and you'll appreciate what 40 years of development of biotechnology has actually done for us.
Ken