For months, Americans have been told that they must stay at home like hermits to avoid "catching" the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) should they dare to venture outside. This is because the Chinese Virus, as it is also called, might be lingering on a door handle or cereal box just waiting to invade the lungs.

But this fear-mongering appears to have been both premature and false, as the CDC is now saying that, in reality, "touching surfaces or objects" that might be contaminated with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is not a risk at all, and thus should not be a concern.

What this means is that all of the "practical and realistic" precautions that the CDC and other government agencies had been pushing on people is no longer necessary – and more accurately never really was necessary.

The CDC did not come out with a bang to make this announcement, by the way. Instead, it quietly revised its webpage on how the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) supposedly spreads, and a handful of media outlets just so happened to take notice of it.