@CupOfJoe  I agree with everything you've said, except "containment"  It's already incapable of being contained.  The Harvard professor stated that in February, we're already beyond the point of containment. 

We're only able to mitigate the damage it will do.  Here's a link to the interview he gave a month ago. [Link: news.harvard.edu]

If you don't want to read the whole article, here's the snippet.


GAZETTE: But what is most important for the public to know about this?

LIPSITCH: There’s likely to be a period of widespread transmission in the U.S., and I hope we will avert the kind of chaos that some other places are seeing. That’s likely if we continue to be prepared, but I think it’s going to be a new virus that we have to deal with. That won’t be because the United States government has failed to contain it, it will mean that this is an uncontainable virus. If we’re dealing with it, it’s because everybody’s going to be dealing with it. I think that’s a likely scenario.