If you look at the outbreak map of the US it is obvious that there will be confirmed cases in almost every state by sometime next week.
I am not a conspiracy theorist on this one, but I am convinced CDC is deeply, stunningly incompetent, and won’t be containing anything, mitigating much of anything, or controlling much of anything until the disease is so widespread that the health care system is totally crushed from sea to shining sea.
I would love to be proven wrong, but that is what I am concluding based on what I have seen so far. They are a day late and a dollar short, reactive rather than proactive—every time.
The press conferences bragging about what a great job they are doing just makes them look even dumber, and is totally demoralizing.
I’m coming to the conclusion that CDC relies too much on numbers and pre-planned scenarios and not enough on common sense.