[cgbg]

I guess we should mention the actual emergency plan.

It is called the National Response Framework and was created in 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Response_Framework

Any quarantines will follow these guidelines...

[Jane Long]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#United_States

[cgbg]

If they are totally mechanical they would use the ten federal regions shown in the map in the middle of this page (the color map):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States

and would quarantine the country in ten parts.

If they are that mechanical that means they _really_ don’t care and are just going through the motions.