More precautions could definitely have been taken sooner and few would have complained. But they still do not know how deadly this mix of swine, avian and human flu is. They don't know for sure why it seems deadlier in Mexico so far. They're gambling, and we'll have to wait and see...
yes it looks like that other nations taking more precautions like the US. But to be fair if this would turn out to be the “real” deadly one we could allready consider us “dead” too right now in Europe (in this case maybe 1 or 2 weeks after the US). the real alarming (at least for me) is not that only the officials in the US look like as they do not care that much right now about this flu. the real alarming is that it shows worldwide that “we” are in no way somehow prepared for a “real” deadly disease. (not that i would believe that “our” governments would tell us the truth untill it´s to late). so i guess it´s just buisness as usuall. Do nothing and hope that it will just go away without doing to much harm to “us”. (the usuall calculation of governments in cases like this is, ok it will may kill 1000 -100.000 people worldwide) but in our countries we have access to all kind of medical care and vaccines so lets hope WE get away with a blue eye. explains why it looks like no one specially cares that they have 80 dead people in mexico right now.