Nature has hit the "reset" button. It must change us. Forever.

[Warpy]

10. That's actually the upper range, if S. Korea's numbers are accurate

They did a fantastic job identifying people with mild cases as well as those who are sick enough to require oxygen and more.

A real reset would be the emergence of something as deadly as smallpox, which had a 30% fatality rate before modern medicine came in.

Most people will get this one and get over it. When enough people have gotten over it, the rate of transmission will slow to a crawl. Since both China and the US botched attempts to contain it early enough by not listening to medical people in time, many of us will get this. All we can do is slow it down by practicing good hygiene.

It's just going to kill a lot of people, most of them old like me. Will people listen to doctors and virologists and public health people when the next and possibly worse one comes along?

Probably not.