The novel coronavirus panic is inciting ever higher levels of inconvenience:

• Italy has declared a quarantine for the entire country and ordered all businesses with the exception of pharmacies, food markets, and selected "essential" factories shuttered until at least March 25th (archived).
• The "World Health Organization" declared the spread of the novel coronavirus a pandemic.
• The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will be closing its trading floor after the close of business Friday (archived).
• The NCAA "March Madness" basketball games will be closed to fans (archived).
• US stocks continue suffering: DJIA down 5.86%, S&P 500 down 4.89%, and NASDAQ down 4.7% (archived)
• A "containment zone" has been set up surrounding New Rochelle, New York's seventh largest "city" after racking up 178 confirmed cases and at least 1000 in quarantine following synagogue exposure to the local patient zero (archived)