Which means it's really, really bad.
They would only not reveal it if it would cause mass panic and disruption.
If they knew it was pretty benign, they'd be telling us that.
They haven't.
Instead they are banning flights from Europe and many places are enacting measures the likes of which we have never seen.
Watch what they do.
Do not listen to what they say.
The vets on this thread know _exactly_ what is happening, and roughly when it was going to happen and when it will happen.
We have not panicked, we have prepared.
The problem is, this does not scale well.
Imagine the toilet paper fiasco for every item in Walmart.
(Prep tip: More of everything is good—if you don’t need it, you can use it to barter with your neighbors. For late preppers that means if product A is out, just buy more of product B that you really don’t need. The perfect is the enemy of the good.)