Exactly! From what i have seen, the governments are acting, even in my country with only 3 confirmed cases, the schools are already shut down. It is media that amplify the panic so that no matter what governments do it seems not enough.

So to you would consider what’s been done so far by the US federal government not theater?

The US is doing particularly badly (and going for nonsensical solutions; note the most recent one). Various Asian and European states are being much more aggressive. Some US states are also doing the best they can.

There are countries besides Belgium and the US (thank God!). Sou5 Korea seems to be doing ok, Italy is certainly doing the right things, even China did pretty well, especially considering they didn’t get advanced warning.

In the US, a lot of the action is at the state level, and WA, for example, seems to be doing fine.

The federal response, and especially the testing situation, is complete amateur-hour bordering on negligence-in-the-criminal-sense, yes.

The article states that beligum is not taking any measures at all. So the gov is handling the threat by inaction?