You really need to keep up with the literature. A paper recently came out which says it can survive ten days at ambient temperature a on most plastic and steel surfaces. And others have reported it is aerosolized. It spreads through cough, sneeze, and breath.

This one is different.

Do you have a link to the paper?

Edit: I found this literature review [1] that sounds similar to what you're referring to. Note that this is only a summary of previously published results on similar viruses. If you check the source data in Table I the persistence times are from hours to days, and the author's conclusion is "up to 9 days" (emphasis mine). In my opinion this is very weak evidence to say that it can survive 10 days "on most surfaces".

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019567012...

I'm keeping up with the literature just fine, thank you very much. Nothing is nearly as definite as your comment would suggest.

There’s ample evidence “going to church” is one way, and that’s not much different than the others.

Perhaps if your church likes to pack in people so closely that they're touching and thinks that it's your duty to God to repeatedly drag yourself to church no matter how sick you are. (The likely index patient apparently attended services 4 times after symptoms started.)

Maybe participation in the holy communion by drinking from a cup of wine shared with the entire congregation isn't the best idea right now.

Afaik none of the churches where it has spread were the sort that has that kind of a practice — more pentecostal or cults. (Cults who knows, they could do that. But pentecostals ime don't much like wine and I've never participated a recreation of the last supper when I've been to a pentecostal church.)

I presume that the alcohol from the wine would not be enough to kill the virus, right?

It's unlikely, wine's alcohol content is only around 13%, you would need about 4 times that to kill the average virus. It would also be on the lip of the cup rather than in the wine.

As a kid in the 90s, my church had a separate line for kids so we could participate too, and we got grape juice.

Communion wine is typically only 12%-18% alcohol by volume, so probably not.

IN a part of Austria, they apparently banned holy water now.

Then why is China shutting down public transports, telling people to stay home, and cancelling public events? Hmm?

You could ask the same of many of the responses. All of your examples are "strong" responses that reassure the public, like the flight restrictions which public health experts have argued against. By the way, public transport is, and has continuously been, running in most cities in China, and people in many cities (I have direct knowledge of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai) are now slowly returning to normal life.

Since when has China been ready to move heaven and earth in response to the fears of its citizens?

Please share some of the (numerous, I’m sure) statements by public health officials and epidemiologists crying that China is overreacting.