Is it a contagious disease? yes. Is it dangerous enough to shut down the country for half a year? not even close. We talk about how we can never trust the government and yet we fall for this crap every time. We who are the skeptics, the preppers, the realists... WE fall for it. Naturally the general moronic public just gets in line like good little Borgs....resistance if futile. All that had to be done is issue a guideline that anyone over 60 (or medically susceptible) stay quarantined at home until the disease had crested. Hell that's near retirement age anyway, chances are you are already at home.
Do some young healthy people die from this? yes, but the percentage is microscopic. You can always find the exception to the rule. You don't shutdown a country for that. This over the top reaction was to crash the economy and nothing else...anything to stop Trump and the changing political climate. China may be responsible for this outbreak, but the globalists are responsible for the reactions. Never let a good crisis go to waste.