Uhmm, it's not that easy. It's worse than Christmas season right now and you have two months before that with extra hours. Now it all happened in a few days with people going crazy.

It has also nothing to do with us. We can only start to send our goods when they get ordered by stores. We can't just send them something they haven't ordered Just because... stores only started to order more than usual end of last week and they also don't have space to order so much in advance and store it somewhere.

Just to give you some idea about what's going on. Normaly my department sends around 2000 pallets per day. At Christmas season it's around 4000 per day on average (with extra work force to handle it). Now we have 9000 pallets per day and you can't even find that much extra work force. That alone would take a while to find enough people.

Well, that was an example. It's not funny for a 78 and 74 years old person if they see what's happening in the supermarkets. My father can't really leave the house anymore for different physically and mentally reasons and my mother doesn't have the time or power to search half a day for what they need. 

And I don't live close to them. Would help if people would think just a tiny bit more about people around them.

And that's actually more frightening than a pandemic. Our modern society is so efficient, lean margins, build for profit, minimize storage space/time, that we don't really have any reserves anywhere for emergencies.

It's mostly on the government to inform people and make sure preparations were made when things started to develop in China. Since it's winding down in China, perhaps we should airlift sick people there since they have more and more empty beds and the best know how to get people to survive the disease... I have zero trust in our own Healthcare system being able to deal with this :/

Apparently Italy is closing down all schools now, from day cares to universities.

You could also look at it like this:

Wuhan is a city of 11.08 million.
86% of cases in China are linked back to Wuhan.
Active cases are now going down in China.

86% of 80,282 cases / 11.08 million = (so far) 0.62% infection rate (with symptoms, not all 11 million tested of course)
86% of 2981 deaths / 11.08 million = (so far) 0.023% death rate (still 27.2k active cases, 6.4K serious / critical)

But that only works if we can respond as fast and efficiently as the Chinese.

Testing is the problem, death rate in the USA is currently 7%
Deaths / Total detected cases is currently 3.4% and 6.0% of closed cases.

How many people will get infected is the question, and how many are actually infected with such mild symptoms they don't even know. Estimates ranged from 15% to 70% of the population getting infected at some point, 40% of China being infected by the end of May, however in Wuhan it's still under 1 percent and slowing down. The question is, can we in the West give up our mobility for a while to stamp this virus out.

Dumbest line in this thread so far.

What do you estimate your chances at catching the corona virus? It started in Wuhan in December btw, it had plenty time to escalate. If we can match China's response, no reason for millions to die and for the healthcare system to get completely overwhelmed. Slowing it down is key.

Anyway, it's anywhere between 0.025% (Wuhan survival rate) and 7% atm (USA stats), we simply don't know yet.

6.5% of new cases are now from China, while China still has 65% of active cases. This thing can be slowed down.

I live in Australia and there is shortage on toilet paper at every supermarkets because of the coronavirus. People including myself were stockpiling toilet paper and now supermarkets are recalling toilet paper as the cardboard roll inserts are imported from china and there are strong fears the cardboard has been contaminated with the virus. Apparently the most recent purchases are deemed most likely to be contaminated.

What the hell has the chance of getting ill by a particular illness have to do with the death rate of said illness?

That's really a good one   What genius found this out and what was her/his reasoning?