Some more thoughts on the pandemic.

As I see it, the initial panic surrounding this infection was because of the fact that everybody had the earlier MERS and SARS infections in fresh memory, and they were indeed very, very deadly.
When it was clear that this SARS variant was no more deadly than the Hong Kong flu the stone was already rolling down the mountain and it was to late to stop it.

Now everybody realizes that the world overreacted and countries are going back to normal, some fast and some slower, depending on how much face the politicians and advisers have to loose.

So was the initial panic wrong? No, I don't think so, if indeed it had turned out to be as deadly as earlier SARS and MERS it would have saved a lot of lives.
The error lies in not stopping the draconian measures when it was recognized to be just a flu.