well - sophisticated investors have just told us what they think...

well - sophisticated investors have just told us what they think of this deal - and they rejected it. Shareholders might have voted heavily in favour of it, but for the smart guys with money, paying $30m dollars for goodwill was never going to fly - market turmoil or not.
Let's hope that the surface hygiene technology is very close to commercialisation and has the capacity to destroy this coronavirus on contact. That could be worth hundreds of millions in this current world wide health scare.

Is the consolidation going to proceed? I hope not - all that does is increase the potential for more falls in market cap.