My job requires me to travel a LOT. I live in Barcelona, and Spain is doing almost as pathetic a job of handling this as the US is. However, I'm not there most of the time. MY sister is with Doctors without Borders, and while she and her family live in Montana, where there have been no cases reported... yet, she's like me, in that she spends a lot of time away from home. She's an MD, who worked for the NIH for a few years, and she says there's no reason for us to panic. So I don't. Although, like my sister, I'm very cautious. I wash my hands a LOT, have foregone handshaking, which isn't a problem, because handshaking isn't a huge deal, until I have to deal with Americans. (My girlfriend, who is Catalan and works for the Spanish Foreign Ministry, refers to we Americans as, "Handshaking, grinning fools.")
I find the countries I've been to that are doing the best at handling this have one thing in common: They test. In South Korea, it's the damndest thing. The government sets up stations in parking lots, where you can get tested without even leaving your car. (Their outbreaks are slowing down.) A