I was caught in the thick of it during SARS (as were many others on here). We were scanned, measured, etc and were just short of having a thermometer shoved up our bums during all our airport movements. Panic set in with the media, but most of us lesser mortals who needed to get on with things just heeded the advice, took the necessary precautions as best as one could, and lived to tell the tale.
To put this reaper into perspective. The current death toll from coronavirus currently stands at 5830 over a 1.5 month period. The average annual death toll from tobacco stands at 8 million (
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-s...detail/tobacco).
Many industries have been hit extremely hard due to the sudden panic by the general public from hearing of some new threat, a panic further induced from the self interest groups like finance and the media, a panic that solves absolutely nothing when sound advice to deal with the problem is already available.
Can I have one bucket of sand please.
Perhaps you're being too greedy in hoarding your own supply of the stuff....