I wonder what Yuen Kwok-yung, the HK researcher mentioned in the article who said there was nothing to worry about, thinks now...
LOS ANGELES - anecdotal
1. DH drove to Ontario Airport today to return rental/pick up his personal car. Airport parking was nice enough to discount the fees - $270 for first 10 days then $10/d for next 10 days. Rental car co also didn’t charge extra for mileage, due to ‘rarity’ of pandemic - even tho he drove it from TN to SoCal with 2 stops in Ark and NM. No extra fees, no extra charges.
So if you have to travel by air right now, the concessions are doing their part in trying to ease the financial burden for travelers who can’t easily get connecting flights.
2. On way to Upland to check mailbox, up and down Mountain Ave messsicans are hawking surgical masks for $1.99 each and P95s for $5 each. Individual, in baggies. No word if they were put in the bags under sterile conditions but the hawkers didn’t look too sterile. So if you have to have one, that’s where you can find them.
Didn’t see any homemade masks for sale, tho (which would probably sell faster since they are washable so sterility isn’t such an issue)