I'm just guessing too on what base rater is, but if I'm correct on what a base rater is, then the thinking has use for how normal citizens should prepare (maybe

I'm just guessing too on what base rater is, but if I'm correct on what a base rater is, then the thinking has use for how normal citizens should prepare (maybe don't sell all your investments to buy rice and beans and N95 masks) rather than what those fighting the virus should do. If my understanding is correct, the base raters don't say that nothing extreme ever happens, they only say that things usually turn out close to how they have been. I suspect that is true.