Will express...some degree of being at odds with myself over the coronavirus stuff--because this is far from the first time 'new disease!' has been a source of media fearmongering and explosion that panned out to little in reality (at least in the US/West. With bird flu, swine flu, ebola, Zika, West Nile...to name a few), so there's a part of me that looks at this with a degree of skepticism and wondering if it's being overblown.
That skepticism, of course, gets met with the rather dramatic action taken by the PRC in attempt to contain things. Even assuming the reaction is strengthened because SARS was embarassing to them and they want to avoid that again, and the simple 'centrally-organized states like the PRC can do excessive disaster-response in ways other states couldn't' from a...practicality...standpoint, this STILL looks pretty damn concerning, because mass quarantine of millions of people, deployment of military, and spitting chemical disinfectants out via cropdusting over entire cities and the like is some rather extreme stuff. Particularly when paired with the PRCs reticence to work with health agencies, and lack of transparency over numbers they do release...Not to mention the possibility they missed an initial outbreak response and this is coming 'late' (though I don't know if THAT theory is reliable either...This whole mess makes it easy to be skeptical because of missing info, potentially inaccurate info, and the publication of what info there is/might-be potentially suffering from hype.
Long rant short...This stuff still looks pretty concerning even with some skeptical-bones in my body rising up. Hopefully everyone gets a handle on it.