Dr. Steven Novella

You could do the testing.

You could do the contact tracing.

You can police the borders.

You could do all the things that you have to do.

You need to stand this up quickly because if you don't, it gets out of your control.

It spreads.

It spreads beyond where you want it to be.

Then you're fighting this losing battle against a spreading contagious disease, right?

So that's the position that we're now in.

And the greater the chance of it busting out, right?

Of it getting, you know, somebody going into a town that then causes another outbreak and then gets spread to a big whatever.

The greater the chance that it can break out.

We all saw that movie.

Yeah, exactly.

So it's like we've been covering Ebola outbreaks for the last 20 years and nothing has changed or it's worse.

And whatever lessons we had learned and people that we were putting in place have all been torn down in the last year.

It's so sad.

And then while the government's pretending like everything's great, we're just handling it all fine, but it's all nonsense.

That's not what the people on the ground are saying.

Because we did have robust infrastructure.