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> Insane that this is happening without federal coordination. Um... it's good. States have more powers than the federal government, being the primary sovereign
by tathougies 7y ago
> Insane that this is happening without federal coordination.
Um... it's good. States have more powers than the federal government, being the primary sovereign entities in the united states of america.
Also, most of the united states (and most states of the united states) are not affected the way the west coast and new england are.
- dnautics 7y agominor nitpick, "being the primary sovereign entities" is de jure. De facto, the primary sovereign entity has become the federal government. That said I completely agree that it's a wonderful thing that these things are happening at the local (not even state) level. That's the most sensible thing, really. Other things, like disease spread tracking, should probably happen at the federal level. But absent a missing amendment that I don't know about legally (A pity, the framers didn't know about disease theory) there's no clear mandate for that, which contributes to the ambiguity of what the feds should or shouldn't do about this, which becomes a matter of judgement, and there are certainly pros and cons to both stances.
- tathougies 7y agoSure, but the states still have the power to do way more than uncle sam without much oversight. They should exercise it at times like these. Moreover, as I stated, this is only at crisis levels in some parts of the country. Local action could have prevented a bigger outbreak overall. Some states are taking much more preemptive action and will be better off because of it, like Ohio.