Quote Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai View Post
We may have to anyway, vaccine notwithstanding. It's too early to tell whether this virus will behave as a "one-off" type of pandemic, or a yearly recurring one. In the former case, the virus may well burn through enough world population to subside on its' own via humans acquiring immunities before a vaccine progresses to the point of mass distribution (which happened with SARS-CoV-1); in the latter case, a yearly vaccine much like the flu will be necessary and a certain number of people will die each year...again as with other types of infections.



British is 2d Worst might be appropriate though:

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...navirus-crisis



Probably simplistic, but the world's second highest death toll doesn't speak well to Britain's response

....btw, there's no chance of anyone becoming worse than the US.....we'll be well over 100,000 deaths by summer....and counting

While the USA's response has been far from ideal, like most of the world (and admittedly NOT the best of the lot by any means ), your last couple of statements presume we are getting anything resembling complete numbers from China. China has been great about sharing information regarding potential treatments and is doing its share to develop a vaccine, but I am leery, at least, of the numbers they claim.