[TheRealThing]

Even if people are disposed to not taking the CV seriously on their own terms, they are forced to recognize the problem by not being able to go to work, restaurants, bars, movies, & etc. I doubt there are many parents just blowing this off since schools and the daycare facilities have closed, which group likely comprises most of the country over 21, and IMHO was likely the most meaningful step taken to limit the spread so far. The great majority of all older adults are taking things very seriously.

Just saying, in 2009-2010 (2 seasons), the swine flu resulted in something around a billion confirmed cases with a half a million deaths. And I'll be honest, at the time I didn't even bother to get flu shots and I wasn't at all concerned that I would get the disease. That for the most part, is just the mindset of healthy people. And we didn't stop doing our daily business during that epidemic either. But what makes this (CV) different is the fact that it is up to 3 times more communicable, does tend to kill older people, but is still a threat to that end with any age group. In short it's the overall susceptibility of people to catching this thing that has the medical community concerned.

Added to that is the fact that h1n1 is a variant of the Spanish flu of 1918. These bugs in some cases, tend to hang around a lot longer than 1 season. Authorities are likely concerned once next fall comes again, it will be here we go again. All of that said, I believe the private sector and the professional sector will come up with a vaccine a lot quicker than normal. It is at that point that we will defeat CV.