Talk about missing the point. Exactly the sort of self important, unqualified opinion that we need to stop circulating. Kaletsky seems to have read nothing about the disease, preferring instead to do some number crunching and come up with his own ideas

The reason infection fell in Wuhan is not because the virus becomes less virulent or people are not as vulnerable to infection as supposed. It is because quarantine stopped it spreading and once there were almost no new infections it died down. Every serious medical study repeats this. If you stop people being in contact they can't get infected and the geometrical explosion of cases will stop. This is not a surprise. Every pandemic has petered out when quarantined (Ebola) or there were simply not enough live people to infect (Black Death). Kalestky's extrapolations of infection and fatality are directly at odds with every official and leading private health body. Note that the UK is deliberately pursuing a course of infection because it believes that is the best way to minimize future outbreaks: it is very direct about the potential infection rate (up to 80%).

We should not panic but at the same time we should treat it as something that could have a devastating impact on our lives and economy. That said panic serves a purpose if it makes people isolate. We need to realize that irresponsible behavior a la Kaletsky puts people's lives at risk.