Maybe but the threat appears to be real.
Why have the governments of ALL countries affected taken extreme steps to stop its spread?
Why did the US ban flights from China? Why is Italy cutting off entire towns to stop its spread? Why did Japan close all schools for a month? Why has Israel essentially shut down travel?
Understand that countries are doing things that are unprecedented in modern times to try and stop this. If it's NOT a big deal why are they essentially shutting down their economies (China, South Korea, Japan etc) to try and deal with this?
I never said anything about it not being real. It’s as real as SARS or Ebola or anything else we’ve seen. Some seem to be doing an excellent job of handling this (Singapore is a great example).
What I said was that there are people invested in creating panic. This is true of the MSM for political reasons as well as just to ‘sell copy’ and among some FReepers who seem to be cheering this thing on and are disappointed whenever any positive news comes out.