What if you had one jihadi as a virus source, and some uninfected people extracting body fluids from the source and spraying the fluids on objects in public spaces (handrails, etc?). The guy who was already sick simply has to lie in bed dying. The people doing the spraying will likely die in a month, but while active, they are 100% healthy and symptom free.
I’m sure that would be their preferred way of going about it, and I’d say it would be quite effective. They wouldn’t need to successfully infect THAT many people. Just simultaneously infect several in different regions of the country by using the contaminated bodily fluids in busy public places in major cities. Within a month, clusters of cases will begin popping up, for example: in NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, ect...ect. There will be no commonality among them such as countries traveled to, or anything of the like.
The feds would be completely disoriented and their response will be terrible. Their response was bad enough with only two people in ONE city! The ensuing panic would essentially shut down the economy.
What’s scary is if people like you and I can think of this stuff just sitting here talking on FR, those people sure as hell have, considering how they do that sort of thing as a way of “life”.....