Some say that the vaccine is the true weapon. That this is why it is being blown up by the media and world governments, a lot of intervention for such a small death rate. Malaria kills a child every 30 SECONDS yet there isn't this hysteria. Some think that we are being made to feel scared so that we willingly take the vaccine. Almost beg for one. The vaccine will then cause infertility in some children when they are older as a way to reduce the population. I can't say that I would be surprised if it were true. In any case, I am not having the vaccine. No way and neither are my children.
^ Probably for the best if you're willing to believe that so quickly
A vaccine - barring any major conspiracy, that is - likely won't be ready for mass production and distribution for about a year, give or take, with how much trials and testing will be needed to ensure there
aren't side effects (like infertility).
The thing is that 1% may seem like a small death rate but that's still 70 MILLION people across the world, if not more. For context, Malaria is thought to kill around 400-500,000 people annually in recent years (because the death rate has lowered a lot since 2000
because there is a treatment).
I'm doing my best to keep myself realistically informed - comparing it to previous pandemics and such - but the truth is, part of the panic seems to be that this is new-ish territory so it is difficult to guess what will actually happen. But everything seems very much a guess at this point.