Are you changing plans for travel Due To Coronavirus Fears

Tell me when the CDC as the CDC or similar institutions as institutions made such a prediction.
Other wise shutting down a large percent of the whole world society to deal with a mild virus is crazy.

The reason why the Y2K bug was not a major issue is because people took it seriously and fixed most of the problems ahead of time.

https://slate.com/technology/2009/11/was-y2k-a-waste.html

A couple months after the turn of the millennium, Utah Sen. Bob Bennett took to the floor of the Senate and declared victory over Y2K. “The record is fairly clear that had we as a nation not focused on this issue and dealt with it, we would have had very significant problems,” he said. But by then, virtually nobody was listening, and Bennett, who chaired the Senate’s Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, pretty much knew it.

The clocks had turned over on Jan. 1, 2000, with few major disruptions, and cable news chatterers quickly concluded that we’d been duped. Y2K and the years of doomsaying it had inspired now looked like a fin de siècle affectation, the sort of problem people invent when the economy’s booming and they’ve got nothing else to worry about. After a short round of thank-yous to his staff, Bennett closed down the special committee—and with that, the federal government squashed its involvement in the millennium bug.

Almost 10 years later, it’s remarkable how little we think about Y2K. Today and tomorrow, I’m going to do my best to fix that oversight. In the first half of my two-part Y2K retrospective, I’ll try to evaluate whether our millennial preparations were a good idea or a huge waste. On Thursday, I’ll look at the lessons Y2K provides when it comes to planning for future disasters.

oralloy wrote:

We can vaccinate vulnerable people against the flu.

We don't have a vaccine against this yet.

LOL you do know that flu vaccinates are only around 5o percent efficient even assuming that they had guess correctly and therefore the vaccine produced is for this year strain of Flu.

If you get vaccinated for the flu and then catch a different strain of the same flu, that vaccination will still be effective enough to keep you out of the hospital.

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If you get vaccinated for the flu and then catch a different strain of the same flu, that vaccination will still be effective enough to keep you out of the hospital.

That is not necessarily true - my mom had a flu vaccine one year and still ended up in the hospital with pneumonia.