I really like your statement: "We've have done better if our gardener were in charge of the country." I may borrow that. As long as the public continues to be convinced that this virus is worse than the bubonic plague and everyone who doesn't isolate will catch it and half the people who catch it will die from it, the world will be ruled by the "pyromaniac[s] in the bush running around shouting 'fire', 'fire', 'fire', while busy dropping lighted matches into the dry grass as they go." I think Dr Kory has found a cure for the flu and any other respiratory illnesses that have the potential to ramp up into cytokine storms that attack the body. I also think that whether or not this is a souped up virus cooked in a Chinese lab supported by Dr Death, or a microbe that jumped species and was deliberately spread around the world, as long as the discussion centers on the bug it distracts people from the true danger, which is the pyromaniacs exploiting the bug.