Jane I am in no way a conspiracy theorist HOWEVER I have my tinfoil hat on I am beginning to believe that this was done purposely, this happened immediately after the signing of phase 1 of new trade deal with China, which China HATED, and I am NOT for one minute giving our own intel agency a break here!! I wouldn’t put one damn thing past them in having something to do with this!! I have NEVER in my life time seen this kind of mass hysteria, the MSM has manage to SHUT DOWN the entire economy of the country AND they are gleeful about it!! Ebola NO hysteria, H1N1 NO hysteria, Hong Kong flu NO hysteria, this whole thing has become absolutely ridiculous!!! Everyone take care of your elderly do their errands for them AND go on with your lives IF you can find ANYTHING OPEN!!!
I KNEW this was serious chit when the weather channel babes were talking about it like it was a Cat5 hurricane!/S
Okay number 1 whether or not it was accidental or purposely launched it's here. President Trump is fighting it. It didn't matter though what he did...the economy was going to take a hit. The nature of this virus is that it doesn't get MOST people sick enough to stop their activity but it gets enough people sick that they will overwhelm hospitals IF they all get it at once. So unfortunately part of the solution is to shut down certain segments of the economy to stop it from spreading so fast.
As far as the "news" there is literally nothing we can do about that. We know they are snakes. We can only not watch them.