There are hundreds of thousands of case of flu every year. Flu is never a mild illness and kills about two victims in every hundred. Coronavirus is a mild illness in four people out of five. It kills about one victim in a hundred (far fewer, I suspect, because it's not unlikely that tens of thousands of people have got it/had it without knowing it). By all means close schools and cancel football matches in hotspots. Otherwise, give me one rational reason for the suggested panicky overreacting we are getting, even in this thread. Nice opportunistic swipe at money-spinnng events, etc. But you can bet your life that the real reason for the draconian actions of the Chinese regime is a lot more to do with ensuring that their money-spinning capitalist economy doesn't go into free all, and watch that space if the US gets a few more cases...