I am sure duck and cover was an effective means of preventing nuclear annihilation.  I don't think any Americans perished from nuclear blasts, after the duck and cover protocol was advocated.

But, no, washing your hands after touching something someone else touched is probably a good way to get rid of any pathogens they may have left on it.  Those alcohol wipes and gels are probably a good second best if you can't carry a sink with hot running water around with you.  And soap.

Soap makes such a mess in my pockets!

I'm not convinced this is a biological weapon.  It's very virulent, meaning it is easy to transmit and catch, but it's a lot less fatal than Ebola or Warburg, and seems most harmful to the elderly, not fighting age men.  

I suspect it may have been an attempt to work on vaccines,as China did run human trials of SARS vaccines, despite the animal trials revealing that was a bad idea.  Wuhan Institute of Virology submitted a lot of coronaviruses to the NCBI, which means they did a lot of work with them, particularly those that remained latent in bats, because of bats' weird immune systems.

I had a plotline for a morbid syfy story in mind, in which cagy intelligence operatives crafted SARS-2 and made it available to known Chinese spies in Canada, who'd be sure to steal it, and made it so infectious that China's BSL-4 labs would be unable to contain it, given China's 10x jobsite injury rate.  But I really don't want to put that story into the world today.  There's enough bad mojo going around.

In celebration of our new partnership with Tron, I am using Opera, the browser owned by Tron.  I do have some extensions installed in Opera.  

I tried to use a website that claimed you could download vids with it, but even though I could watch the video and had it open at the time, it failed to get access to the video.

If you know of websites that actually work to do that, that would be a great help.

Thank you!

A fine broadside attack!  Your mischaracterization of my recommendations to prepare for potential disruptions is cast as 'ranting against supply chain disruption'.  Well played.

I have already pointed out that instead of instituting their draconian and violent quarantines when Li Wenliang first revealed the spreading outbreak, China did not, and instead put all their efforts into suppressing the information about it - that it's civilian population would have been able to act on to quarantine themselves, even if the CCP didn't quarantine the infected.

When they did institute quarantine, it was after millions had left the city for the holiday, and was so violent and oppressive that people also fled for their lives, that the quarantine would surely end.  Welding the doors of whole apartment blocks shut is not something the residents of the apartments are likely to find beneficial, even if they don't get the virus through the air conditioning system, like the passengers on the Diamond Princess did.  Not sure starvation is a preferable way to die than pneumonia.  

Don't claim China instituted rational policies when it has done exactly what would most spread the epidemic at every possible chance, and the reacharound from the WHO is just disgusting.  

Censorship of facts is deadly.  Frightened civilians take action to secure themselves, although some of them will do the wrong things.  Useful assistance in doing the right things would head a lot of that off, but that's too much to expect of the psychopaths parasitizing us through governmental vectors.

Edit: you mention social collapse is something governments will seek to avoid, yet we both see that happening presently in China.  Maybe after the mass deaths by starvation of the quarantined, some sort of order will return, as happened in Europe after the Black Death killed ~1/3 of the population.

I am encouraged at least you are still alive.

Stay that way, my friend.