Sure, but we know the flu is deadly and relatively communicable and we certainly don't take this level of precaution.

I'm suggesting that there is a spectrum between "taking some cold meds and still going to work" and "locking down entire cities and treating people with robots" and that many considerations go into where we decide collectively (and individually) to be on that spectrum.

I'm not arguing this isn't dangerous, that there isn't unpredictability or anxiey about something new, or even that the precautions aren't necessary, I'm just curious as to why this particular coronavirus has landed on the far right side of the serverity-of-precautions scale.

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(I mean there's also "no good reason" not to make sure the entire world has access to clean drinking water and antibiotics and those things kills a fair amount of people...)