Short and sweet: We are making a bad situation much, much worse because we're letting government morons take action based on the advice of politicized scientists who are trying to overule the laws of biology and common sense.
Summary:
This a serious problem for already health compromised people.
Vulnerable people need strict quarantine and health workers need testing so they don't infect the vulnerable.
That's it. There's nothing else than can be done - other than treat it as needed - until it runs its course.
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John P.A. Ioannidis professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center says "WE DON'T HAVE REAL DATA ON THE VIRUS"