If you need evidence it has run away, you are far too late. Basically, our government is just crossing its fingers while others are being proactive. It is expressing far more concern about alleged racism than the disease itself.
You're all for shutting down the economy for a virus of marginal danger, but can't see why we should change our way of life for an extinction level danger. This virus has been overblown. SARS was a completely different matter. This is not an emergency and we shouldn't be treating it as such.