"The biggest takeaway for me: this wasn't even close to the black death, but you wouldn't know it based on our reaction to it. Is this shit show going to happen every time there's a moderately more lethal flu? And how fucked are we going to be when there's a legitimately lethal virus?"

Same here, all this has shown me is that if we ever have to face a truly deadly and infectious disease, we are straight fucked. I'm talking major societal collapse within weeks of international spread.