I’m not so sure. Mind you, I don’t think is a stock up on water and hide plague but it’s just showing up here and it’s showing up in some very, very heavily populated areas with lots of mass commuters.
For those willing to think and not be mindless parrots of the Fake New panic machine, here is the real data.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This is NOT a pandemic, not even much of an epidemic. If it were, the death toll in China would be in the hundreds of thousand or millions by now. It is not.