I agree. My real fear is that governments are going to keep on disrupting normal activities even if new strains evolve to something as mild as the flu.
The most recent report from India claims a new strain is “up to 15x more contagious” than existing ones. The earliest ones were supposed to be up to “5 times more contagious than H1N1”. Even if this causes much milder symptoms, it’s still way more contagious than the flu and will naturally lead to a rising and immense death toll even if the mortality rate is the same as the flu.