It could have worked had our borders been immediately sealed, all flights and ships stopped and 2 week quarantines for anyone entering the country.
Quarantine anyone showing signs of the virus.
Training in the proper wearing and decontamination of MOP gear.
But they didn't.
Doing nothing would have been better than doing what they did and what they will do, given the excuse.
Well, the dirty little secret is you don't actually have to have a virus at all. Just have your people at the CDC mark down -- and instruct hospitals to mark down, with financial incentives -- all flu and respiratory disease patients and fatalities as "Covid." Then make sure your "'Covid' patients" are hospitalized with other vulnerable and compromised people. Also, make certain that, because of "Covid," you instruct hospitals not to conduct urgently needed surgeries of all kinds to avoid spreading the "virus." And then count those who succumb to their conditions as "Covid cases."
There's lots more you can do. You'll figure it out.
Easy peasy.