I didn't see that The Philippines treated things much different than any other country. Probably they were even more restrictive than most.
That Chinese guy in PH vid was a false positive BTW (it turns out it was a drunk) but it turns out that the country was ill-prepared. People started calling the police, 911, Red Cross, etc. and no one dared respond. The public took initiative and cordoned off the area themselves and attempted to follow the man when he stood up. A guard from a nearby establishment took the items the man left behind and dug a hole and dumped them in there.
I'd not be surprised if the story was more-or-less accurate. I notice that in the people of the Philippines to a degree and think it is laudable. In fact I chose to live in a place where 'ordinary people' (maybe) will pick up the slack when the judicial and executive are not on the job and solve certain behavioral problems on their own if the problems are above a certain threshold. It was a selling point to me. I tend to feel that a vast majority of people don't want problems in their lives, and criminals represent problems, so they can and will resolve the problems on their own if forced to and if they have the right tools. I trust the sense of the citizenry of a society more than I trust the political class and their hired muscle in a lot of cases.
I also have my doubts that the political classes will really be able to execute on directives from the likes of the United Nations very efficiently relative to many other countries. If/when there is a technocratic dictatorship I am hopeful that there will be a little more breathing room in The Philippines compared to most of their neighbors for this reason (incompetence) alone. Unfortunately I don't see an extra-ordinary appetite for 'freedom' among the population here. At least that it would be something to fight for, and especially if they start being cut-out from the global economy of other populations who have 'gotten with the program.' We'll see how things go.
On the coronavirus thing, it seems that the vaccine engineering may suffer from a problem of the same basic type as did dengvaxia. That is, getting the vaccine may make individuals extra sensitive to exposures to other slightly different strains. Basically the body has an even stronger reaction to a similar strain after having battled the vaccine strain.
This is why I don't mind hysteria during outbreaks like this. Prevention is still better. If you get infected you'd end up in the hospital where you'd be on life support or they offer you an experimental vaccine. It's best to not get sick at all.
I really cannot envision it being a wise move to 'go to the hospital' willingly in any sort of an epidemic environment. Seems quite pointless and counter-productive to me. I cannot see how one could possibly expect 'life support' and would be surprised if a person found so much as a nurse say two words to. Many hospitals in The Philippines that I've seen are already pretty scary even without an epidemic.
It's funny that the PH government in an interview told its people that there's no need for them to wear masks after they announced the first death (and only then did they imposed a travel ban) and the replies were overwhelmingly "We'll just take precautions ourselves whether you suggest it or not".
I was out and about today. Things were pretty normal. Maybe a slightly higher percentage of people were wearing masks, but wearing on was still unusual and there were plenty of people about. I have yet to see an n95 mask which would stop the virus from passing through, and it's looking more and more like this coronavirus has some unusual characteristics which render masks even more useless.
I harbor a strong suspicion that one of the main fall-outs from this event will be that 'they' will be able to try some things with new types of vaccines which would otherwise be expensive and time consuming validate. My personal feeling is that 2019-nCoV might have been engineered and released for that purpose, but that's just me. (I will say that if 2020 went by WITHOUT a so-called 'pandemic' I would have been surprised given the predictive programming, 'exercises' , stage of technological progress on RNA-vaccines, etc.) Anyway, I personally am going to try to not have myself or my family be the Guinea-pigs If I can help it. Yet another reason to stay away from hospitals. I know from personal experience that a person and a doctor can agree to not do shots and if you turn your back for a moment the hospital does them anyway. Best to just stay out of a compromising situation in the first place if it is at all possible.