Oh and regards to coronavirus itself? The actual fatality rate per infected person (not per case identified right now) is likely 0.3 - 0.6% according to one study. The bigger impact will be from quarantines, school closures, etc. It might actually make more sense at this point to just go about our business and accept that it is here. However, given our President's admitted germophobia, and his self-congratulation on the (supposed) effects of quarantines so far, as well as the hope (not based on much fact) that if we can slow it down it might die out in the summer, I think he will go all in on quarantines, school closures etc. This will cause considerable disruption to many businesses and stress families with lost income. (In my own family, in case of a local outbreak my sister expects to lose hours at her second job at Sees which is in a mall - those will probably close if there is a quarantine, business may go way down even if they don't close. The school she works at could close, although she would still get paid for that, but an increase in hours that was promised to her probably would not go through. My own business will probably take a big hit although I would try to do appointments by telemedicine. My niece who is an ECMO nurse will likely be working overtime though.
Eventually we will be through this (although if it does die down in the summer it will come back in the winter) and I expect things to resume rather quickly. But middle class families will have seen their buying power affected by lost wages etc.
