We shouldn't forget that the novelty of this disease, and the unknowns surrounding it, are causing the (probably necessary) extreme reactions like those we're s

We shouldn't forget that the novelty of this disease, and the unknowns surrounding it, are causing the (probably necessary) extreme reactions like those we're seeing now. In the longer run, after the patterns are better understood and treatment protocols are in place, we will probably normalize to whatever the non-zero steady state infection and fatality rates that results, much as we do with diseases like influenza, malaria, etc. As that happens, the reactionary controls that are in place today will gradually lessen and we'll be back to a business as usual. Of course, the short term shock of this might send a fragile world economy off the rails, but pretty much any globally correlated emergency incident would have done that.