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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I'm not sure how much can be done. Each state has its own laws and fight for themselves. There will never be state compliance.
The populace is ADD and cannot listen to anyone
Testing: No
Masks: No
Contact Tracing: No
Reopening: hell yeah let's go to the bars
Yes Trump refusing to set an example is idiotic but again, he closed the border and wanted to lockdown early and was criticized for it. And he reopened too early and got criticized. But it comes down the the public, they cannot stay indoors. Perhaps the right solution was to not lockdown and let the virus run through everyone.
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Testing - government failure
Masks - government failure
Contact Tracing - government failure
These failures at the CDC level are the responsibility of the Trump administration.
Trump could have used emergency measures to force compliance or work with congress to use the spending powers to force states into compliance to solve each of the above issues by now. Let the states appeal to the courts for Injunctions where powers are overstepped. He didn’t have any issues with this kind of action when it was not Covid related.
On the Reopening problem setting the correct example would have at least reduced the issue but I agree the individualism of Americans is a part of the problem.
Even not locking down and going full on herd immunity would have required a plan. He did not have one at all. You can look at Sweden and look at how they handled it and disagree with it but a plan was executed. You can’t say the same about the US.