If the coronavirus is "not serious"

then could someone please explain to me why the loo paper is going so quickly from the supermarket shelves?
Actually there was still plenty of paper in our local supermarket yesterday. It also had plenty of disinfectant and the like.
I had gone in to buy another box of those disposable gloves people use for food preparation. Anyone helping the Senior Cat have a shower uses a pair. It is one of those small things we need to be aware of these days....safer for him and safer for the person helping. The girl who served me knows what the situation is and suggested I get two boxes.
    "Most people who will buy them when the panic sets in won't need them. They just need to learn to wash their hands properly," she told me, "The real problem is going to be sourcing a supply."
I agreed. 
Perhaps the coronavirus situation will have one positive effect. It might make people aware that China has too much of the world's economic power for everyone, including them, to be safe. We get a lot of goods from China, many of them things we could live without if we had to do so. They get a lot of food from us and other places. If China had to feed people only on what they could grow themselves then people would starve - and those who did not starve would have a very limited diet. That wouldn't happen of course. The Chinese government would find ways of obtaining food from elsewhere - ways the rest of us would not want to contemplate. 
There are reports of people stockpiling other things too - pasta, rice, baby formula, tinned goods. I actually need more rice today...but most people don't buy the sort we like. Pasta? I have the usual quantity available. We don't use baby formula. We don't use much in the way of tinned goods. We will be okay.
I am sensibly concerned about the Senior Cat. If he caught  the virus he would not survive. I might but his immune system is already compromised by age if nothing else. All we can do is be sensible, take the sort of precautions we now take and hope nothing happens. I doubt we will run out of food or essential items like loo paper.
Goods are not leaving China. Their factories are not back operating at full capacity. There will be shortages of some things - but it won't be loo paper. We make that here in this state.