[higgmeister]

It might be a good idea to stock up on necessities enough for a couple of months. If the virus gets loose here, no one will show up to work in stores or other places with public customer traffic.

Here in the United States, we don't visit the open air market daily to shop for food and we have freezers and refrigerators to store perishables. It's a little far fetched to equate a third world culture with our modern western civilization.

That being said, my wife and I have for many years stocked-up on almost everything when it's on sale.

[familyop]

That’s a good point. It’s much easier to catch a cold or flu from a stranger in an open air market than in our local Walmart, fast food place or convenience store.

A-a-a-a-a-a-a-choo! Oh, sorry. Pardon me. ;)

[luv2ski]

It is worse than just an open air market. These markets are in huge buildings with multiple floors. The one where they think it started is a live animal and seafood market. It had all sorts of bizarre (for food) live animals and seafood- like porcupines for example. They had been told to shut it down and didn't.

I was in such a market a year ago in Kowloon- across the water from Hong Kong. I had to go outside as the combination of the smell and other things (like the machine they put chickens in right after they wring their necks that pulls out all their feathers) was making me sick. I feel nauseous just remembering it. ugh.