There is a deadly epidemic spreading rapidly, causing death and destruction in its wake. This disease has been with humanity for millennia, but it has now spread to an extent of epic proportions, threatening to undermine modern society as we know it!
Paradoxically, this disease kills those who are least likely to be infected by it, and those who are infected, are least likely to die from it. In fact the infected are directly or indirectly responsible for the death of the non-infected.
Government officials have been almost universally infected. This has lead to their complete and utter lack of action, or even pretense of having a plan of action, to deal with this deadly disease. There are only a handful of government officials who may have escaped infection, as of yet, most notable a newly elected lady from Massachusetts.