Or perhaps our government is acting and handling the threat, just not in a way mass hysteria on Twitter demands. Knee jerk reaction usually ends up in theater, not proper containment.
(Then again, my government isn't the Belgian government.)
(Then again, my government isn't the Belgian government.)
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.