Get some lightly-used fukushima geiger counters and bulk expired iodine tablets while they're on deep discount, too! (The author says he's just being funny, and my comment probably should be taken the same way.)

Man some people are making a killing off this, eh? (And not just in financial terms.)

My brother is a painter here in a tiny rural town in the middle of nowhere, Canada. He went to the paint supply store to pick up some stuff for a new job. They were out of painting masks. They guy said they can't keep them in stock right now because of people driven into a frenzy by the media's reports of pandemic. He said he even tells them "this won't protect you from airborne viruses" but they buy them anyway, just to try to make their fear go away a little bit. My brother needs the masks for his painting business, and will have to postpone his latest contract until he can locate some.

I'm certain there are broader problems than some guy in Canada having to delay a job, but if this is impacting day to day life in small towns across the planet, without the virus ever going anywhere near those places, that is a problem.