I favor neither stringency nor laxity, but try to choose what the situation dictates.
OK.
There have been some nice flamewars on these threads ("Less virulent! Tastes great") over those who hype everything, and those who think everything is hype.
There's an old saying about Global Warming, "I'll believe it's a problem, when those who are lecturing me ACT like it's a problem."
China has been acting like it's a problem for a couple of weeks; early publications in The Lancet showed epidemiology and such which said, China's reaction was not necessarily far-fetched.
Those Asiatic countries closest to China ALSO took it very seriously.
The next concentric ring was epidemiologists and academics of that ilk, who *said* "Hey guys, this is different."
Last to take _public_ action were the US public health officials; I don't ever before recall reading about screenings of incoming aircraft followed by quarantine and contact tracing.
Nor do I recall the Head of the CDC and similar high-level bigwigs holding a joint news conference in the middle of the day to talk about it.
...so *something's* up. But given the publications in The Lancet, it may be a couple of weeks to see if the precautions were overkill, sufficient, or too little too late.
Coronalocks and the three Beers, or something.
Friendly agreement.