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I do worry about calling up Governors and local officials.  Which Governors?   Why those Governors?
Even selecting Governors from a particular party to testify would be tricky.  Hogan and DeWine will have very different perspectives than Ducey and Stitt.

This alone shows that federalism like we have in the US does not work when trying to combat giant problems like covid.  If you can't even figure out how to assess what went right or wrong in our federalist system, how should we have expected it to successfully fight the virus?  In the US, there shouldn't have been 50 separate responses to covid.  In each state, there shouldn't have been [number of counties or cities] responses to covid.  This has resulted in massive duplication of efforts and putting grossly unqualified people in charge of the virus.  

(Note: I'm not saying that you can't tailor the response to local infection severity, but there should have been ONE playbook from the start to deal with this, and everyone should have been operating off of that).

[burger]

I do worry about calling up Governors and local officials.  Which Governors?   Why those Governors?
Even selecting Governors from a particular party to testify would be tricky.  Hogan and DeWine will have very different perspectives than Ducey and Stitt.

This alone shows that federalism like we have in the US does not work when trying to combat giant problems like covid.  If you can't even figure out how to assess what went right or wrong in our federalist system, how should we have expected it to successfully fight the virus?  In the US, there shouldn't have been 50 separate responses to covid.  In each state, there shouldn't have been [number of counties or cities] responses to covid.  This has resulted in massive duplication of efforts and putting grossly unqualified people in charge of the virus.  

(Note: I'm not saying that you can't tailor the response to local infection severity, but there should have been ONE playbook from the start to deal with this, and everyone should have been operating off of that).