Dr Fauci, Director Of Infectous Diseases says we have definitely have an outbreak and likely a pandemic.

Just finished interview with Dr. Fauci, US director of infectious diseases. Hour-long interview. Detailed. He said: We're dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease that has “now reached outbreak proportions and likely pandemic proportions.”

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) March 2, 2020

It gets better ...

Top US virus-control official, Dr. Fauci, cautiously, thinks current mortality rate will go down as more cases discovered: “I think 2.5% is probably a bit high... It's dangerous to make firm kinds of predictions. I think it likely will be down around 1 percent, but I'm not sure.”

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) March 2, 2020

Don't know the context of the question but 2.5% is a bit high?  Does that mean that the kill rate is above 2%?

But this is the kicker.

Dr. Fauci said United States may have to consider social “mitigation,” acts like temporarily closing schools and events with large crowds in confined spaces. “We're not ready for it right now, but we need to be at least thinking about the possibility.”

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) March 2, 2020

Yeah.

Mitigation issues.

That's the danger and the threat to the economy.  This thing is probably already across the US and I still say the WHO is now worthless.

But my prediction is that this will flare out...BUT RETURN mutated this fall.  The global economy is about to be smashed.  Not by politics but by disease.  It'll also increase nationalism (small "n", meaning not white supremacy based) in all countries.

In essence I think we're getting our version of the Spanish Flu in the modern age, not now but later this year.

What say you.