The list of serious side issues continues to follow the predictable pattern. Three U.S. airlines have suspended all flights in or out of China. We haven’t heard from Fed X or UPS on cargo flights but it won’t be long… The flow of Chinese container ships will soon slow to a trickle and worldwide manufacturing will begin to slow down because it may say “made In _____” but a lot of the parts are made in China. Initial testing indicates that the virus can survive for at least 14 days on impermiable surfaces. Make that three weeks just to be safe.Sequestering anything made in China for three weeks isn’t the end of the world, but it will put a good sized dent in international commerce.
On the medical side, doctors and hospitals say they are not receiving needed quantities of supplies to combat the virus. The Chinese government is doing as much as they can, but no country is equipped to supply all the masks needed fora few billion people.
Even though influenza is killing more people, the scary part of this is the 14 days a well-meaning person can infect hundreds of others before showing symptoms themselves. I’m not sure I buy into all the panic crap pushed by the media, but even a cursory reading of the progress of this virus suggests we’re in for some interesting times