“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Watching the main stream TV news is like asking for panic. It reminds me of the OJ trial. The media likes to latch on to one story and beat it to death.
There are people who obviously have political agendas to promote who actually look quite happy to trash the economy. Telling people that receiving communion on the hand is more sanitary than reception on the tongue smells like one of those type of agendas.
As for prevention, of course we should do that. But the point is there are worse problems that we face. And this hysteria will cause more problems than it solves.
We need to avoid senseless panic. The Italian government has ordered all public masses to be stopped.
One wonders if the Chinese have not initiated this “epidemic” just to crash the western economy.
Then you need to examine your smelling apparatus, because my sole agenda is to tell the scientific truth about the issue. I'm a scientist...it's what I "do". And, at bottom, it is also a "Catholic thing".
I agree with the rest of your comments.