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Looks like one of things we should concentrate on is adult education about our system of government.  It's called federalism.  The states retain public health and safety functions, which means that each governor is responsible for running a Health Department that does things like testing, contact tracing and hospital regulation (number of beds; number of ICU beds, etc).  They are responsible for planning their state's emergency response and requesting assistance from FEMA and Homeland Security.  The national government does not go uninvited into these situations.  The CDC is there to provide guidance, specialized testing, etc.  Therefore, you had different responses from each state.  The only thing truly controlled by the Feds in this situation was the borders.  I can only imagine what people would have said if their parents were trapped on a cruise ship and not allowed to come home to the U.S.  Yes, this type of government is messy, but it is ours and it was set up to allow maximum freedom.  People criticizing the Feds and Trump on COVID would have been the first to freak out if he had sent troops uninvited to states to deal with racial unrest.  Same deal.[/quote]

No, the terrible federal response is not due to federalism. It's due to the administration currently in charge of the federal government.[/quote]

What a substantive response.  No, it wasn't a terrible response.  Sorry.  - MPH[/quote]

Not a trump fan but I agree states make their own policies and that’s a feature of our specific brand of democracy.  In general presidents get too much credit/criticism for things they don’t have power over, like the economy.  Immigration policy, foreign policy, trade policy, DC protest response -these are absolutely on trump/exec.  The more specific we are about our grievances with him increases our credibility.  Blaming him (or Obama, as we saw recently) for everything does not.

As a further derail: The cdc is a part of the fed that absolutely could have done better during the pandemic, but they have been dysfunctional and ineffective since the days of the AIDS crisis, which is why Fauci and NIAID stepped up.  Some president should Really sort out the cdc after all this or just put them under another agency. [/quote]

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