Asians seem to wears mask all the time in China. I read something that in Wuhan, while modern, they live very unhygienic lives. Spitting and coughing, lack of showering, brushing teeth, just basic things we take for granted. Also, heavy reliance on mass transit (think vectors). I really do think that Animal Market kicked it off such that it took that place by storm. My prayers are that we see it begin to slow, hoping, hoping ...
My husband’s company is headquartered in HK. They have run out of surgical masks and asked us to find them boxes of them. We ordered some online but the company says that they’re so backed up that there’s no telling when they’ll ship. I went in to our local CVS this morning and was told that all the CVS stores are out of masks as is the local medical supply store.