Americans should prepare for coronavirus spread in U.S., CDC says

[matt819]

11. Okay

What would you propose that we do?

We no longer have a functioning government entity responsible for a coordinated response. We have the CDC, which is good, as far as it goes. But what is the CDC going to do when there are outbreaks on the west coast, in other large metropolitan areas, and then in smaller communities? Have media briefings with non-specific comments and recommendations? Are we going to have situations like the one with the guy in the news these past few days who thought me might have the coronavirus but only had the flu, and his insurance company did the Uber equivalent of surge pricing. Do smaller hospitals have the capacity to respond? Larger ones? Are there going to be regional quarantines? State quarantines? Who enforces these? How? Call out the national guard? Martial law? Who picks up the losses for small businesses that don't have the capacity to absorb the kinds of losses that multinationals do. (That's a rhetorical question - as always, the little guy is fucked.)

What happens when the idiot in chief tells everyone to calm down, it'll be gone in April, while the CDC releases numbers indicating growth?

Also, just how many people are on top of this in the US, and where are they? Not on policy or response, but on the epidemiology. CDC of course. Maybe the NIH? Anywhere else? Any coordination? After all, the Russian asset in the WH dismantled the pandemic response infrastructure.

As the OP observed - This got my attention. Mine, too. I'm not panicking, but it is really horrifying when you see the equivalent of a banana republic administration ill equipped to deal with this.