toneseeker911
Experienced
@DaAxeMan:
So, to sum up: I think the White House team (on this topic, at least) is being smart by not overestimating their own smartness. The current president is prone to boasting; here, he correctly boasts of his policy's humility. Every GOP administration since (I think?) Eisenhower has been accused of fascism. But in this case the administration disappoints its critics by not invoking what they would surely describe as an Enabling Act. By avoiding the distractions such a move would predictably generate, the administration probably achieves the same levels of PPE and test production, faster.
This doesn’t make much sense. States know what they need looking at local conditions, but the power of the federal government is much stronger in ensuring that they get what they need and to act as an overall coordinator. Assuming it was run by someone competent in supply chain and logistics.
Smaller states without an adequate war chest are getting outbid by wealthier states. These are not 50 different countries - information should flow up, reconciled at the fed level and then the fed needs to step in where governors are unable to. This applies to many other things, distribution of excess ventilators or PPE from one state to another for example, building temporary hospitals etc. It’s ridiculous to want all states to operate in a silo without any coordination.
And since there doesn’t seem to be a competent politician at the fed level to handle this, the military is our best shot.