Wash hands often and don't touch your eyes, mouth or nose.
That's the best advice for a fact. Down here, the media have gone absolutely nuttso over it. General spending has virtually stopped and people are already being temporarily laid off work. Don't ask why, but toilet paper ( aka : poo tickets ) has been bought up by the trolley load. You cannot get it anywhere, for a fact. The herd mentality rearing its ugly head. We have had TWO deaths from it, one of which was a 94yo nursing home resident ( RIP to both of them ). Common flu virus kills or contributes to the death of about 1,600 people here p.a. I believe the annual global flu death total varies between 210,000 and 645,000 people.
On a slightly lighter note, a large food processing factory in my home town, makes among other things, baked beans. In supermarkets and the factory ' door sales ' they have totally sold out of the bloody stuff ( shades of prepping for COVID19 ). I cant help but think how the shortage of baked beans, and toilet paper, will sit together!? Not well methinks. Hand sanitizer products are only available under the counter. Again, comes back to what wweiss has said, WASH HANDS WELL UNDER HOT WATER WITH SOAP, as well as other preventative measures.
Aus EBAY has seen single rolls of toilet paper for as much as AUD$1,000. Boxes of facial tissues and kitchen paper towels have gone the same way also. Hmmm, time to break out the glossy magazines. The media driven hysteria here, has to be seen to be believed and they need to be held accountable for their reporting. Unfortunately that will never happen, as they are a law unto themselves, and I assume a lot of other countries have media that's very similar.
