Problem is, if you're close enough to notice symptoms you've likely already been in the contagious zone long enough for infection. Just one tiny still-wet spot (sneeze debris, skin oils, whatever) with just one virus and you're in for a very bad month.
Friedan is right out of central casting, playing the incompetent government official on the tube that keeps telling everyone things are just great while zombies are running wild in the streets.
GOP should be calling for his head, but GOP has no leader other than Cruz, who hasn’t weighed in yet on this creep.