China is starting to suffer massively economically, they derive approx 80% of their income from small/medium businesses, of which a large proportion of them only have cash reserves of 1-2 months. They have been on shutdown since the Chinese New Year. Another few weeks and ...The cynic in me says that the fear from governments is largely an economic/financial one as the amount of working days lost (likely even bigger owing to the added strain on healthcare provision) because of a genuine pandemic of this nature could trigger another major global recession.