Prepare your hearts and minds with the most high, repent of our sons because the pestilance is here.

The death rate as the op said is not the major factor.

Society won't function as it does now.

Transportation, food, emergency, medical, banking systems, factories, production, consumerism, etc will grind to a halt if this is allowed to get out of control.

They are testing a person in St Louis right now.

It's in the US.

Our government needs to shut all schools, and start quarantining the major cities with no movement in or out until we can get a hold on this thing while we still can.

Freedom of movement is a killer in a pandemic.

Read up on the great plague of London.