Counterpoint Like the Y2K bug, focusing a large amount of society's resources on the problem is the only think that may prevent it from becoming catastrophic.

Counterpoint Like the Y2K bug, focusing a large amount of society's resources on the problem is the only think that may prevent it from becoming catastrophic. I also don't see much hysteria - some real concern, starting to slowly take action, a long-overdue stock market correction that's already moderating, but not hysteria. Moreover, this author seems to have little knowledge of the dynamics of exponential growth. They also miss the fact that the USA has essentially zero testing capability, restrict the tests to absurdly tight criteria (returned from a known hotspot, or contact w/+tested person), so new cases are now popping up across the nation. Mostly there is completely insufficient data, especially in the USA, where the administration has gutted the science-based agencies including the CDC, is trying to protect the stock market for it's re-election before protecting the people, and so is basically flying the in the fog saying "it's fine, we don't see any mountains". Sitting the the same dataless fog and saying "it's fine we don't see any mountains either" is not helpful.