Alison Curtis: Keep calm, wash your hands, and reassure your children

IT is impossible not to think about the coronavirus. It is on the news, in the papers, on Twitter, on Instagram, and is the topic of seemingly every conversation, writes Alison Curtis.

I find there are two polarising camps of people. One, the larger group, can’t believe the ‘overreaction.’ They laugh at hand sanitisers and mass hysteria. They aren’t worried and say, ‘sure, if you get it, it only lasts a couple of days’.