I hate to tell you this, my friend, but it already has.
There is too much travel in this country for it to be contained. If they wanted to contain it they should have stopped all travel the second China knew about the virus in mid-January.
The CDC and the WHO has handled this very poorly from the beginning. It was clear right away that asymptomatic spreading was possible and that the incubation period was longer than 14 days, but I guess health officials never got the memo.
They also distributed faulty test kits. Many of those kits gave false negatives and the people were not required to quarantine.
The only reason it looks like our case number is low is because we haven't been testing everyone that might have it. Again, blame it on the test kit issues.
And for some reason basic measures are not being taken. There should be emergency broadcasts going periodically telling people to avoid social gathering unless necessary, to limit contact, and to stay home and self quarantine if even slightly sick. They should have case tracing yelling everybody in the area where positive cases have been identified and where those people visited. That way the healthy can avoid those places until after disinfecting measures have taken place.
And most importantly, local governments should be sending employees to disinfect common areas (grocery stores, gas stations, parks, crosswalk buttons, county buildings, courthouses). This is a very effective, very easy step that is easy to implement and I'm surprised no one has done this yet.
Spread is inevitable, but measures can be taken to lessen the burden on our healthcare system.
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