"Nobody knows, which is why some people have been saying the real Conservative thing to do if you want to claim to be Conservative is to be cautious because being cavalier about such things could end up blowing up in our faces."

There's nothing conservative about destroying your economy over a case of the sniffles. Or, for that matter, about quarantining healthy people rather than sick people.

And if you do believe that's legitimate, you should be concerned that the cray overreaction to this disease means it will be much harder to convince people to do this for another disease which is actually hazardous.