Stress, rumors, even violence: Virus fear goes viral

In this Feb. 14, 2020, photo, a woman wearing a face mask walks on a almost empty street at the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Even as cases and deaths from the new virus mount, fear is advancing like a tsunami - and not just in the areas surrounding the Chinese city of Wuhan, the center of the outbreak that has been declared a global health emergency. A restaurant owner in the Chinatown says visitors have dropped by 90%.

You’ve probably got a better chance of winning the lottery than buying face masks in parts of Asia. Conferences and events have been disrupted from Beijing to Barcelona to Boston. Quarrels in Japan; riots in Ukraine. Rumors that toilet paper and napkins could be used as masks emptied East Asian store shelves of paper goods.

“Fear can do more harm than the virus,” Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in response to panic buying of toilet paper, canned food and instant noodles after the government raised a risk alert over the new virus.In the Philippines, nearly half of the pews were empty for recent Sunday Masses in many churches.

“Merchants say their businesses are now dying,” said Chun Yong-bum, head of an association of thousands of merchants at Namdaemun. Although he later backtracked, Tokyo Olympic CEO Toshiro Muto said recently that he was “seriously worried” the virus could disrupt the Olympics and Paralympics. When news broke that a journalist who reports on Japan’s leader had contact with an infected driver and was in self-quarantine, a web edition of the Weekly Post tabloid magazine declared: “Coronavirus has sent shockwaves to the prime minister’s office.”

klug A virus going viral. Who would have known?

klug 'National Health Commission and National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Wednesday. The aerosol transmission was newly added in the plan, which has been updated to its sixth edition.' by xinhuanetnews. COVID19 living already on science too in divided worlds

klug And the US remains totally unprepared.

klug Maybe if you'd report the news and not the propaganda it would be a different story

klug Have to live with it....

klug Hear W.H.O wants about $ 650 million in donations to help contain and fight this Virus . Hint Hint

klug well with headlines like this one, you're kinda contributing to the problem, AP

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