This virus is not the worst pandemic in history....it's not even the worst pandemic in the past century...it's not even the worst pandemic in the past 50 years.

Hong Kong Flu killed 1 million+ people between 1968-1970
Asian Flu killed 1.1 million+ people between 1957-1958
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has killed over 35 million people since 1981

In fact, in the list of 20+ pandemic/virus associated events thoughout history it falls in the lower tier and that is with connectivity throughout the world unlike any time in history.

This isn't to downplay the danger associated to the virus it is to bring some perspective to what is happening right now. You can literally wear a cloth mask and make this thing pretty much go away over about a period of 3 months....and we can't even do that...