Here is a (probably rediculous) idea.
About a month and a half ago, I began to notice many TV and online personalities- spread far and wide- complaining about a mild respiratory ailment. Of course, this is cold/flu season in many places in the world, so the observation was apropos of nothing.
I too got sick, and it was very strange.
There was the usual initial recognition you have when you're body isn't at its peak, and you know something is coming. It became clear with a sudden fever, low grade, that persisted for a day at most, and completely disappeared leaving me with a deep cough that produced nothing and wasn't any more than sporadic for a few days. My voice went, but the odd thing was that after the initial fever/discomfort, there was just lingering fatigue. I remember being amazed at how quickly it had onset, but then dropped off immediately- only to hang around in the background for about another week. It was as if I was ill without being ill. I really don't know how to describe it other than to say it felt like a very distinct, asymptomatic (almost) flu.
In any case, many others in my family and hometown had something similar, and a few noted it's unique nature. I don't want to say MANY people said this, because I only recall a few instances, and, like I said, the timing just puts it squarely in the wheelhouse of it's simply being the flu.
All that being said, here is the idea:

-Assume China is lying; it really is quite bad.

-Our intelligence agencies are fully aware of the fact that China is lying, and so, are also fully aware that the situation is grave. By virtue of this, the President is of course aware, and so, his apparent failure to begin restrictions on travel- or do ANYTHING AT ALL- is incongruent with all apparent reality.

-If the above are true, then the lack of concern/action from them may be genuine because many here have been SECRETLY PRE-VACCINATED via some mass dispersion mechanism(s).

I haven't fleshed these ideas out AT ALL. I'm just putting it out there that maybe the reason it seems like the 'Infrastructure', so to speak, doesn't seem overly concerned with the literal video-game style apocalypse going down in China spreading here. WHY !!EXACTLY!! NOT?
A record breaking quarantine of tens of millions of people in a dozen metropolitan areas of a first world country IS TREMENDOUSLY BAD. What is going on here!? There's no chance that we shouldn't be already closing our borders if what were told about the virus is true...and yet, we haven't even issued formal restrictions on travel. Something unseemly seems afoot, on many levels.
All conjecture, all anecdote. Just having trouble sleeping and wanted to see what others might think.
Be well.