I can’t imagine the U.S. doing what China has done, but I can’t imagine it being necessary anymore. The number dead in China is a small portion of the number dead from the flu in the U.S.
I have read that the draconian Chinese “quarantine”. - sealing up the well with the ill - actually resulted in many more deaths and infections than if they had simply quarantined the verifiably sick. So I’m not sure they handled it all that well.
They were mostly busy trying to cover their backsides and prevent information from getting out. They would not release a sample of the virus to the US, which is one of the things that slowed down our research, and wouldn’t permit any investigation into its source, and kicked out foreign reporters. Not for their safety, but for the “safety” of the regime.
Why inject facts of proportionality into a good old panic?