[SheepWhisperer]

Wrong.
He’s been on it.
As POTUS left it to the state governors, so did desantis leave it to the counties and the cities.
As things change the counties and cities have made their call

[datura]

Isn’t it amazing how few people understand that we are a Republic rather than a democracy? I guess civics was a class they slept thru?

[ncalburt]

On what ?
He made no decision .
He hid .
He let Spring breakers infected the state .
Did you miss the photos of S Fl and Clearwater beach ?
See any social distancing ?
Look at the infected cases in S Fla like Broward 311, Dade 338 , Palm beach 101 , Tampa 91.
Those counties each have more cases than many states .
We are at NYC exponential virus growth with NYC fleeing here .
He wants to quarantine passengers when no one is flying anymore .
Look at incoming NY / NJ plates on I 95 .
In total FL has 1,414 case .
His donors wanted the cash no matter what the price .
Our hospitals will be paying with a second NYC infected wave here .

[Vermont Lt]

Jumping in for a short educational moment.

The way that Emergency Prepardedness is set up in the country is that the responsibility lies at the state level. That is where planning, budgeting, training and facilitation is supposed to happen. 99% of this stuff is local—hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. each area has their “thing.” My area is blizzards and ice storms. The same plan applies to the occasional hurricane.

FEMA is deployed as a back up. They are mostly the folks that coordinate federal support. If you recall, part of the problem with Katrina was that Bush did not nationalize it and the Governor did not act well.

So, this is the 1% of incidents: War and pandemic. Trump has not done a good job explaining how all this is supposed to work. The focus should be on the states’ public health departments. The county health commissioner is really the tip of the spear in most of the US.