We'd like to believe this, but are we sure it is true? The internet and social media have given us realtime global connectivity. Sans filtering out disinformation and accessing truly classified information, we have it all at our fingertips.

> ... and should've acted aggressively in closing borders and improving capacity.

I was laying in bed in January, laid up with the flu, and all I was reading about was this virus and what it was doing to China. I didn't call my representatives to warn them, did you? I think that we Americans should take more responsibility for our self-government than we currently do.