Is the US too lax in its handling of this crisis?

Not sure exactly how you totally shut down the entire country in one as large as ours? Would people still be allowed to get groceries? Would trucks still be allowed to make deliveries to stores? Would people still be allowed to deliver supplies to the elderly?

How would it be enforced? Declare martial law and call in the military?

No, I don't think so, but that's probably because you've been watching the dishonest, left biased MSM.

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If they were doing more your post would read...

"Is the US too severe in its handling of this crisis?"

...and go on about how it's taking draconian measures that only an authoritarian regime like China would take. And if they sent you home without pay, you'd be carrying on about the govt going too far in shutting down the post office.

And to say that "people are doing everything BUT staying at home" as though there's been no change is ridiculous. You've turned SOME people into "people". "All I see" is what you prefer to focus upon. And you do it just to whine as an extension of your other post. Since you're surely staying home yourself, what better time to focus and think hard about your future career rather than thinking about everyone else -- or about which coffee beans to use.

I am not there in the States but I can only recommend you to avoid as many social contact as possible and take this subject seriously. Here, in Europe we are fighting against it, some countries more successfully than others. The streets and roads are almost empty, restaurants, theatres closed. When I go to buy I use gloves.

It's easy to be an armchair quarterback, but tell me, if you were The President, how exactly would you Completely Shut Down a nation that is literally built on personal freedoms?
And how would you feel if, after losing those freedoms, some of them, most of them or ALL of them never come back?
Make absolutely no mistake - there are hundreds of thousands of foreign agents and traitors (read: millions) who would Love to fuck us over.
If you don't agree, you just haven't been watching the news.

Now that the US has delivered the message to everyone we’re doing better. But at this point it’s too late. These things are handled much better with earlier measures. Unfortunately trump’s minions only heard his early talking points on the crisis. Every time I go out I hear another goober say “it’s all a hoax” and potentially that extends the shut down.

US is not handling it differently from most western countries: some basic quarantine and social isolation without stopping the country, some economical stimulus, sending as much medical resources as they can to hospitals and testing as much people as possible. There's no much else they can do, unless you want to go full block as China.

And western countries can't afford to go full block without collapsing economically, though. We're not China. They're rich. We are not, not anymore.

Actually, the only countries that have stopped the country in Europe are Italy and Spain, and only during the worst part of the outbreak. Spain stopped yesterday, but it will last only next week, which is expected to be the peak of the outbreak.

I don't know about where you live but where I live the roads are not packed and most businesses have closed or operate in a limited capacity. The only things that remain totally open are grocery stores, convenience stores or places like Home Depo and Walmart and hospitals. Oh...and the Post Office.
For the most part we still need these services. We can't completely come to a halt.
What about the utilities, sanitation and the streaming services we've all been enjoying? Should they shut down too? I know sanitation can't run on automatic pilot.

I don't see how there could be a total shutdown without having the cure being worse than the disease.

Keep in mind that everyone doesn't get unlimited paid leave and guaranteed a job as you are. And even more businesses would fold and leave an even bigger hole that we might never climb out of when this is over. And it will be over at some point.
I also don't think that most people know how to buy enough food and supplies for an indefinite future either. Most people are still dependent on civilization.