Even though I had seen other documentaries on this pandemic, this was the best crafted version, and contains new material, such as the Asian American mathematician expert on the exponential nature of pandemics who knew when they found the first coronavirus case in Seattle, that there were a lot more. It reminded me of the time we had people working on our house and one of them came to me and said they found a dead flying termite in some debris, and told me, if they find one, it means there are a lot more. We had to have the entire house tented. South Korea tented their country. We did not. South Korea listened to the scientists. We did not. This documentary lays that all out and a lot more. How the Trump administration hired a lot of kids to help procure PPE but they them no guidance and no authority. Only when a scientist accidently communicated the reality of the crisis and tanked the stock market, was Trump forced to acknowledge what the rest of the world already knew. The Center for Disease Control made serious errors with the testing rollout, and the government needlessly exposed thousands of Americans to the pandemic by not even using the pandemic playbook developed by the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton in June 2016 had warned about an inexperienced president not knowing what to do if a real crisis hit. This accounting of out response has not only tarnished our scientific reputation but our leadership reputation. And to make matters worse, if governors wanted resources from the federal government they had to personally call Trump, and then publicly thank him.
Review of Totally Under Control
