Like you, I'm not fond of the idea of stripping local governments of their power and controls. That said, also like you, I'm pretty damn worried about the cris

Like you, I'm not fond of the idea of stripping local governments of their power and controls. That said, also like you, I'm pretty damn worried about the crisis at hand. Given that the crisis has been pretty uniformly driven by local government policies, they're going to have to be dialed back to fix much of anything.