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The nature of the USA is not to have a federal response. A fairer way to review this is at the state level. That being said, Fauci lead the charge on the AIDS
by lettergram 5y ago
The nature of the USA is not to have a federal response. A fairer way to review this is at the state level.
That being said, Fauci lead the charge on the AIDS pandemic and this one ...
- ImaCake 5y agoThat's a good point. Australia has a similar federalist structure as the USA, although we have less than 10 states/territories of any consequence. The COVID response has a been fix of both state and commonwealth (federal). The commonwealth closed the borders, but because health is delegated to states/territories it was up to each state to manage the testing, contact tracing, and lockdown rules. The main issue in Australian politics right now is border closures which have been used by every state to greater or lesser degrees. The commonwealth hates the border closures, but the states, pandering to their state based support, mostly love it (except NSW).
- burlesona 5y agoIIRC Australia has also used internal border closures between States. That is unconstitutional in the US and therefore never even considered.
- tim333 5y agoThe presidents at the time saying it's no problem seem to have been more of an issue than Fauci who at least tried to get things done.
- 8note 5y agoThat is a failing of the USA, considering that states don't have border controls between them