[john70t]

Very comprehensive writeup. Agree that businesses in the public areas (cruise ships, Dinsneyland, restaurants) will take the first wave of economic failures and will have to modify their practices to make customers feel safer-ish.

It might be a few months, but people will eventually start going back out once this initial hype has calmed down and more information is known about it and how it spreads. Is it contact or air born? The gov isn't giving an answer so far.

I was in a restaurant and on the highway yesterday and both were unusually empty. Actually a good thing for the semi drivers. Bad for car manufacturers and repair shops. Saudi Arabia decided to nix Russia to keep pumping on volume 11 so gas was inexpensive. Travel was very easy.

More public measures will probably be put in place. My understanding is that it spreads fast, but affects those already more compromised same as the flu, and has a 2% mortality rate. Most people carry around mersa and staph on their skin but have a reasonable immunity to topical exposure. Some may want to take extra precautions as usual but there is probably no avoiding the inert carriers and goods necessary for normal lifestyles. That delivery box or the goods inside could have the same potential as the public door handle depending.