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I live in an area with thousands of cases. For mother’s day i traveled to an area with no cases. The rules should not be the same for both. Other than washing your hands often w hot soapy water and stop touching your face... those are permanent rules

Definitely local at the current time. There's no leadership at the national level. It's just one big cluster_fuck shit_show. Thank God for our Governor here in Michigan.

I would say localized final decisions with national guidance for a consistent message

Local. I’m not a Communist wanting a centralized system.

Laughing at democrats! You’d be the first to whinge if there had been a one-size fits all response. Bunch of hypocritical liars. TDS

The federal government has a vastly greater amount of money and resources than any individual state. Those assets should be allocated to individual states based on need (not politics). So...federal coordinated response with each state using federal assistance to set up and establish guidelines appropriate to their unique circumstances. There is no “one size fits all” solution nor should there be.

Why should Colorado be treated like NY?
Should NY be treated like North Dakota?

Local conditions.

Did you know that more than 50% of counties in the US have no reported coronavirus deaths?

The question says national , coordinated response, not same response for everyone.

Both -

There is an appropriate national component and an appropriate local component.

It should be national, but if there is no national plan, then states.

Resources are limited and it is best not to have states competing with each other. States should be able to set their own policies, but the federal government should be coordinating supplies.

Corvid-19 is the same as influenza for the masses. Unfortunately higher death rate for elderly and not very dangerous for younger. Flu always a problem for sickly compromised. It’s a pandemic however shutdown and isolation unwarranted!! The harm to people’s economic and individual lives and jobs caused much worse. More will die from these problems than from flu.

A national response. People act like it would have to be some blanket lockdown when it could have been a set of guidelines on when to lockdown. Still leaving the response to be tailored on a local level. Instead we got a policy of, it’s not my problem if it’s your problem. A free for all was absolutely the wrong way to deal with an interstate issue.

National, concerning international travel, trade, national security goods and to support states. Then set minimum standards for the whole country.

State, to coordinate a statewide response. Relations with other states and federal government. Also, in charge of testing. And set higher standards (if necessary).

Local, to set up maximum standards (if necessary) and to enforce them.


Something like that...


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Anyone who said “local” is as right as people who think I can do my own car repairs. Maybe I can, maybe I can’t. Are we going to trust my life and your life to it? Or should we trust the experts - especially if it costs less to trust experts?

Local conditions. A small city in Tennessee doesn’t not need to have the same strategy as a large city like New York

National strategy implemented per local conditions

People travel across state lines, diseases travel with them. If you want to control the spread of the disease...you need guidelines that stop the spread of disease and protect at risk people. National guidelines are better. Of course...we don’t have them and the trump administration is intentionally blocking CDC guidelines. Consequently the US has the highest rate of infections in the world, a >5% mortality rate and 1/4 of the worlds deaths. We are the only country without a solid national response. Perhaps we could do better?
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This pandemic should be handled differently in NYC Han in Kansas. Let the states handle it.

It’s best to leave government out of it, as we’ve seen. You can’t “allow” anyone to do anything.

either one will draw out fucking retards who think new tech caused the disease, and big daddy uncle sam is going to try to enslave the populace.

Neither will ever be effected.

National will always hurt the country economically and local will have ppl crying they they are being treated worse than the ppl in open areas.

Please watch...in this case...there should be no response
videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/plandemic-part-1-dr-judy-mikovits-mp4_ikde1hjwftcd5pe.html

We already thrashed the constitution with this pandemic. Destroying people’s liberties and allowing the government to practically use marshal law. That said, we are a federalist country. That’s always worked better than a nationalist approach. Every state is unique and needs their own approach, with support from national government. Yes it is unfortunate that some states have power hungry dumbasses, like my state but, that’s their fault for electing them. I didn’t vote for our governor.

National leader ship. Local directions

It’s pretty stupid to have one state doing one thing only to have it messed up by another state doing something completely different. You guys know people travel right?

There should be a well coordinated uniform response by the Federal government in harmony with each states particular needs.

It can only work well with national leadership. Unfortunately, here we are with an utterly incompetent president. There's a reason we have so many deaths in this country when most others have faired much better.

Need both since people can travel from a hotspot to an open location with ease.

When it comes to a world wide pandemic like this we need a strong federal leadership response coordinating with a strong international response. What we have experienced is a failure of both. This current White House administration is so corrupt and unorganized it has caused more deaths and an economic crisis we have not seen since the Great Depression.

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Local. Lower than the level of the state if possible

Regional

Always local. The country is too big and diverse to have federal control other than with the science and support.

Both, I think.

Local generally is best because every location is different. At the same time, there needs to be national guidance and reassurance, along with methods to mitigate it on a large scale (we haven’t seen that). In the future, I’m hoping we will be much more prepared for a pandemic, and have plans in place to prevent a massive loss of lives and economic collapse.

Since our states are the size of some countries, I say that they know what is best for them. Even my state of California should be tailoring its quarantine rules to fit its counties. For instance, Los Angeles County is much more congested than is Yuma County, and Trinity County has had no COVI
D-19 cases.

These big states out here controlled by Democrat governors are still too centralized. We have two counties that are a 10 hour drive from Vegas that have never seen a sick Covid person. And they’re locked up tight lime Vegas. Idiotic. They begged the governor on Thursday to open up but he said he was worried that people would drive there. Hell, they don’t drive there now. It’s a ghost town with minors.

Both

The federal government's role in such a situation should be ensuring that states are provided with the most accurate and recent information available, this includes conducting it's own research as well as disseminating verified data from independent sources.
Financial support of states' reasonable measures would not be inappropriate.

It probably should have been national, from the beginning.

The main job of the federal government is to implement and coordinate the supply chain of tests, reagents, PPE’s, equipment and, if needed, military assistance to the states.
They also are the best source of information from the CDC and NIH.
The biggest failure of this Administration so far is not implementing the Defense Production Act to provide all materials needed to conduct a massive national testing program. This should have begun more than 2 months ago and would have greatly aided in getting our economy back on track.
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Local response. A state that has a total of less than 400 deaths doesn’t need the same plan as one that has over 10K!

And I’ve even seen mayors that have taken a state plan and made it more severe for their cities.

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A coordination between both.

The situation is different everywhere. New York is a hotspot and requires a different type of response than some rural area of North Dakota

I know the federal government received a lot of criticism for failing to formulate a national response, and perhaps it should’ve been more active in balancing the interests of different states, but overall I think allowing each state to take the lead in its own pandemic response was a better policy, because the same response policies would not have worked everywhere. Any national quarantine effort would’ve ultimately resulted in response levels that were too severe for the pandemic situation in some areas and not severe enough for it in others.