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You are just wrong on this. The government of the United States is set up so states have supremacy over the Federal Government in many/most areas of domestic po

• throwaway_USD 6y ago
  > The government of the United States is set up so states have supremacy over the Federal Government in many/most areas of domestic policy. I don't think you are familiar with the commerce clause [1]. It gives the federal government control to regulate anything that would effect interstate commerce which would obviously include spread of a novel infectious virus. Obviously State issued mandatory lock-downs effect interstate commerce and that where there federal government can begin regulating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause Edit: In 1902, the Supreme Court directly addressed a state’s power to quarantine an entire geographical area. In Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana State Board of Health, the justices upheld a Louisiana Supreme Court decision that the state could enact and enforce quarantine laws unless Congress had decided to preempt them.