“In a single day, this economy has lost—what is it, two trillion dollars? In a day! One fucking day! I don’t know when we can open the markets again. And you tell me how many people have already died,” the vice president said, once again holding Bartlett responsible, but he wasn’t pausing for her answer. “We’ve got hospitals closing their doors, turning people away! We can’t even bury people fast enough. How did we get to be so totally unprepared for this?”