America’s lack of pandemic preparedness is unforgivable

In the movies, this all goes very differently. In Hollywood’s version of events, the federal government had been building a secret bunker in the limestone cliffs of Missouri to house a million people in the expectation of an extinction-level-event.

Or the entire executive and legislative branches were relocated to an underground facility in Virginia where continuity of government could be preserved, and, I suppose, lawmakers weren’t still using the public gym during a pandemic.

Even in the all-too-real scripted version of coronavirus-the-movie, “Contagion,” the CDC has identified a stadium that...