Seems like you missed the entire point about observing the numerous and continuous data points coming from around the world in order to appropriately act. You are right - a bad flu season is worse than this... because of the 'extreme testing and identification' that is helping the experts keep it that way. Without that proportionate response, it becomes a disaster like it has in other countries around the world (despite their own responses that were either too late or not drastic enough). I'm all for a media bash but it's irrelevant when the data points aren't being created by the media.
