> No one could have predicted the magnitude of this.

Anyone who was paying attention to what was going on at ground-level in China in January could see this coming. It's the lack of testing at that time up through February that caused us (speaking as someone from the U.S.) to follow Italy's trajectory (or worse) rather than South Korea's.

And no one is disparaging those at the front lines who are doing their best to mitigate this very very bad situation.