/johnny
I’m not trying to say we should trust anybody, only that truly effective public health measures necessary to stop an epidemic require ruthless application of uniform measures throughout the area. The only group that CAN do any such thing is the feds.
Personally, I don’t think they’re capable of doing so, but at least in theory they could develop the capability.
Let’s say you live in LA, and your governor puts in place a rigorous and effective plan of control. Unless he completely shuts the borders of the state, including air traffic, which there is certainly some constitutional question about, his efforts will be utterly ineffective if any other state does not perform equally well.
Some things require central control. The problem with leftists is not that they recognize this fact, it’s that they try to extrapolate it to everything else.
Some conservatives and libertarians, OTOH, refuse to recognize that not everything can be dealt with using liberty and the free market. Fighting wars, for one. Fighting epidemics, for another.