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Even if the world governments may fall, which is likely in developing countries, it's important to make sure the internet is functioning and stays online. Special preparations need to be put in place to ensure this. There's got to be contingency plans.

Communist rationing of essentials is important. Martial law is a must now. Policing should be strict and everyone must comply with curfew. Quarantine, isolation and contact tracing is compulsory.

Free market capitalism/ economics is a bad idea as panic buying means 2 year's supply for 80% (20% are poor and in trouble) is taken by 25% who stock up for 1 year leaving 75% without essentials. This will cause serious problems such as rioting/ anarchy that need to be dealt with.

██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████coronavirus has the potential to kill millions due to incubation stage spread.

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ If it mutates, which is likely with wildlife, blood transfusions, rodents or insect based spread, it will be worse symptoms.

We need to shut down borders, ships and air travel. Cull the birds (shoot), livestock, spray insects, stop blood transfusions, stop water/ air transmission, etc.

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Let's hope it does not mutate, it's not DNA based, it's RNA genetic biological material, let's be quick if genetic hardening happens. New strains need to be quickly identified, catalogued and dealt with.

A simple cold kills, a flu is worse, this is like a super flu designed to kill. The priority should be to find a cure or a vaccine and then either to let the disease die off with infected dying off (containment) or to cure the sick if possible.

This is a LIST OF SYMPTOMS that can happen as a result of mutation, extracted from Plague Inc:

1. Nausea: Irritation of the stomach lining produces persistent queasiness, loss of appetite, and waves of retching. Saliva contamination and close-contact exposure make intimate contact, including kissing, a minor but credible route of transmission.
2. Coughing: Repeated coughing drives infected droplets into the surrounding air and across nearby surfaces. In dense urban populations, constant close contact lets this symptom quietly amplify spread.
3. Rash: Inflamed patches of skin turn red, blistered, and painfully sensitive. As the skin barrier breaks down, contaminated fluid and direct contact slightly increase infectivity.
4. Insomnia: The pathogen disrupts normal sleep cycles, leaving victims exhausted, irritable, and mentally dulled. Productivity falls, judgement worsens, and societies become slower to respond as the disease spreads.
5. Cysts: Painful cysts form beneath the skin, each one swelling with infected material. When they rupture, they contaminate clothes, hands, and nearby surfaces, giving the pathogen another small route outward.
6. Anaemia: By reducing red blood cells or haemoglobin, the disease starves tissues of oxygen and leaves victims pale, weak, and short of breath. The resulting strain makes later complications more dangerous and recovery less likely.
7. Vomiting: Violent, often projectile vomiting ejects heavily contaminated stomach contents over a wide area before victims can isolate. This sharply raises exposure risk while also pushing the body toward dehydration and collapse.
8. Pneumonia: The infection descends into the lungs, filling the air sacs with fluid and infected discharge. Breathing becomes laboured, coughing worsens, and colder climates become especially dangerous as respiratory spread intensifies.
9. Sneezing: Explosive sneezing launches fine droplets across a surprisingly wide radius, turning brief encounters into transmission opportunities. In transport hubs and crowded interiors, it becomes one of the pathogen’s most efficient spread tools.
10. Sweating: Feverish sweating drenches the skin and leaves contaminated moisture on clothes, bedding, and shared surfaces. Less dramatic than sneezing, it still creates steady contact-based spread in hot, crowded conditions.
11. Paranoia: The pathogen distorts perception and breeds deep mistrust of doctors, family, and authorities. Victims delay treatment, resist quarantine, and become far less likely to cooperate with containment efforts.
12. Hypersensitivity: An exaggerated immune response leaves the body prone to swelling, rashes, and violent allergic reactions. The immune system wastes strength overreacting, making affluent, hypersensitive populations especially vulnerable.
13. Abscesses: Deep pockets of pus form in infected tissue, causing severe pain, pressure, and swelling. When they burst, they release concentrated pathogen loads into wounds, fabrics, and the surrounding environment.
14. Haemophilia: A haemophilia-like clotting failure prevents wounds from sealing properly and turns minor injuries into prolonged bleeding. Persistent blood loss weakens the host while exposed blood increases contamination risk.
15. Pulmonary Oedema: Fluid floods the lungs as the pathogen pushes the respiratory and circulatory systems toward collapse. Frothy discharge and desperate gasping throw infected material into the air, sharply increasing fear and lethality.
16. Fever: A sustained rise in body temperature accelerates dehydration, exhaustion, and metabolic stress. Victims deteriorate faster, shed more contaminated fluids, and may die if the fever is not controlled.
17. Inflammation: Widespread inflammation causes tissues to swell, stiffen, and obstruct normal bodily processes. In the airways or vital organs, that swelling can turn a survivable infection into a sudden fatal crisis.
18. Tumours: The pathogen interferes with cell regulation, triggering abnormal growths that drain the body and disrupt organ function. As tumours spread, weakness deepens and the host becomes far harder to save.
19. Diarrhoea: The digestive tract becomes a high-output reservoir for the pathogen, producing relentless diarrhoea and severe fluid loss. Contaminated waste spreads disease efficiently through poor sanitation, making vulnerable regions easy to overwhelm.
20. Pulmonary Fibrosis: Repeated lung damage leaves behind dense scar tissue that permanently reduces oxygen exchange. Victims cough violently, tire quickly, and can tip into respiratory failure under even modest exertion.
21. Immune Suppression: The pathogen attacks immune cells and signalling pathways, blunting the body’s ability to fight back. With less immune pressure, it spreads more freely, mutates more easily, and becomes far more lethal over time.
22. Skin Lesions: The outer skin barrier breaks down into open sores, ulcers, and weeping wounds. Each lesion becomes both an entry point and an exit route, greatly increasing contact-based infectivity.
23. Seizures: Neurological disruption triggers sudden fits, blackouts, and violent loss of motor control. Victims can no longer function independently, and prolonged episodes may end in permanent damage or death.
24. Paralysis: Damage to motor pathways leaves muscles weak, unresponsive, or fully paralysed, trapping victims inside failing bodies. Once breathing or swallowing muscles are affected, lethality rises sharply and treatment becomes much harder.
25. Systemic Infection: The pathogen breaks free of its original site and invades multiple tissues and organ systems at once. With the whole body under attack, symptoms accelerate, spread broadens, and fatal complications become common.
26. Internal Haemorrhaging: Blood vessels begin to rupture beneath the skin and inside major organs, causing concealed but catastrophic bleeding. By the time the damage is obvious, shock and death are often close behind.
27. Dysentery: The bowel collapses into bloody, infectious diarrhoea that strips the body of fluids, nutrients, and strength. Sewage contamination turns each case into a local outbreak multiplier, with dehydration and starvation close behind.
28. Insanity: Severe frontal-lobe disruption shatters judgement, emotional control, and normal social behaviour. Victims become erratic, aggressive, and resistant to care, making the disease significantly harder to contain or cure.
29. Necrosis: Large sections of tissue lose blood supply, blacken, and rot into gangrenous reservoirs of infection. Even after death, contaminated bodies remain potent sources of further transmission.
30. Haemorrhagic Shock: Massive blood loss collapses circulation, starving the brain and vital organs of oxygen within minutes. Victims become cold, confused, and unconscious before slipping rapidly into death.
31. Coma: Advanced neurological damage shuts down awareness and leaves the victim deeply unresponsive. Patients in coma are extremely difficult to treat, and many never recover before the pathogen finishes its work.
32. Total Organ Failure: Cascading cell death pushes the body past recovery as multiple vital organs fail together. At this stage the disease is no longer a contained infection but a full systemic collapse ending in rapid death.