//very hard time believing they ever had this contained from the get go//
They never did, its all just talk.
Actually not enough people are taking this seriously enough.
I am seeing across the internet a growing black hole of almost anything about this crisis, and any real discussion of the worst case scenarios is being debunked as being over the top to the readers.
Worse that reading about the natural born citizen forums, and who knows maybe those trolls have a new job lately.