Another point i'm curious about but which never gets a media mention - how much of what we're seeing in terms of the reaction was a rehearsed drill? I'm guessing a lot. Presumably there was contingency planning by governments in the case of an outbreak - then we got one - so - all systems GO!!!

That leads to the question of whether the reaction was a way to give these contingency plans a work out as much as it was a measured, proportionate response.