Emotionally,we are not that well equipped to judge the threat of a situation successfully . So we either overestimate or underestimated the unknown,depending on many enviromental factors. At this point ,however,underestimating the disease would be idiotic indeed.

And then they continued with "ThE fLu KiLlS mOrE pEoPlE a YeAr" and look where we are now. The time where people should have been taking precautions was passed over and now we're playing keep-up.

Yeah.

I am afraid you might be right.
I hope not.