“We have it totally under control."
“It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Donald Trump*, Jan. 22, 2020, on Coronavirus
Jan. = same time S. Korea took quick action:
U.S. has 327 million people:
As of March 11, CDC, state and public health labs have conducted more than 11,000 tests since mid-January.
S. Korea, 51 million people:
has tested more than 200,000 of its population since January.
We shortly will reach the point in the movie where the malignant President (played by Donald Sutherland) is fretfully watching tv scenes of overrun hospitals and looted grocery stores ... and his dry raspy cough leads him to realize that HE has been infected with the killer virus.
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