Selling the "Diseases Must Be Managed" Trope: Mission Accomplished?

The only constant theme in the Wu-Flu propaganda is that "the spread of the disease should be managed", as if there's some way to manage a disease, or that it's even desirable to do so. The inevitable next step of the technocrats will be to recommend post-911 style "new systems" to "manage" the spread of diseases because they "worked" so well in China.