> The problem with this type of call being made by governments, which I hope will become abundantly clear in retrospect, is that governments are incentivized to

> The problem with this type of call being made by governments, which I hope will become abundantly clear in retrospect, is that governments are incentivized to lie about the severity of the situation (consider CCP response to Wuhan, White House response to unsafe quarantines, etc.). No. "[G]overnments" aren't "incentivized to lie about the severity of the situation" any more than anyone is incentivized to lie about anything. It's true that some governments and some government officials are in the habit of blatantly lying, but that shouldn't be turned into some kind of anti-government generalization. Pretty much all the accurate information and advice we currently have about this outbreak comes from governments as well.