Iran’s Revolutionary Guard unveils magnetic device to ‘detect’ the virus.

https://english.alarabiya.net/...etection-device.html

Imagine this guy ...

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland

... who blows the disease away (breath of God, dontcha know).

Now imagine a nation's political system in thrall to such premodern nonsense. And more, imagine the bible-thumping portion of the US is actually a sizable majority of the population outside the capital, and the government has mobilized thousands of the most thuggish of the young men from that population to beat the living crap out of anyone in the cities who dares to utter a word against the authoritarian rule by people like Copeland.

Now you have Iran.