The EU - as political body - had nearly no say in the measure in Europe. Germany - a EU member - is itself a federal republic. Here, it's not the federal gover

The EU - as political body - had nearly no say in the measure in Europe. Germany - a EU member - is itself a federal republic. Here, it's not the federal government but the state and local country/city governments who managed the crisis (e.g. the government agencies tasked with ensuring public health as largely organized on the city/council level). This sometimes results in diverging rules, but at the height of the crisis, everyone (even across party lines) sat together under the moderation of the federal government and came up with common rules to minimize irritation by differing rules. To summon up, I don't think its fundamentally a problem of the political organization but of the political climate. The US seems to be far beyond the point where anyone would expect the people in power to actually come to a consensus across party lines.