Ahhh, well my brother, on that we can agree. If it's a difference between choosing 50% of the people dying or 20%, I would opt for the 20%. Either way, it's an ugly choice but I would opt for less death. Ughhh, this is all just terrible.
I agree 100% with you there...this is a lose-lose battle, and for lack of better phrase, we are screwed. I think it is a proposition of figuring out which is the lesser of two evils, followed by figuring out a way to realistically minimize the impacts of the choice. But yes, in totality, this thing has us by the balls, and I don't even want to begin to think about what happens if and when the strand mutations become more significant.