Coronavirus - is enough being done to contain it?

I was just reading about the Spanish Flu of 1918-20 which claimed 228,000 lives in this country. With so many deaths, funerals were being held in the evenings in order to fit them all in. The government of the day took no emergency measures though and life went on pretty much as normal. Football for example continued as scheduled despite a few deaths amongst the players. It was left to the newspapers to issue advice on how to avoid the virus spreading. Take a less-crowded train or bus, they suggested, cough into a handkerchief, isolate the already sick, give up shaking hands for the present and give up kissing forever.