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What is crazy is that we have no national plan.

There are 50 governors who insist they have authority to control their state and constitutional law appears to support that view.

I don't buy it, paloalto. Under Ronald Reagan we raised the minimum drinking age to 21. The basic deal for states: raise your drinking age to 21 or we cut your federal highway funds. 

If the federal government was so inclined, they could and would find a way to get states to mandate mask-wearing in public during a health emergency. I don't want to cross the no-politics rule, so I'm not saying what I think should be done, I'm just saying that it could be done.

Different era.  Not nearly the partisanship.  If that was tried today, a case would be brought in Federal Court and the Feds action would be deemed unconstitutional.

Remember the hue and cry when Trump said he could order the states to reopen? Here’s a reminder: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/834040912...-to-reopen

[lex24]

What is crazy is that we have no national plan.

There are 50 governors who insist they have authority to control their state and constitutional law appears to support that view.

I don't buy it, paloalto. Under Ronald Reagan we raised the minimum drinking age to 21. The basic deal for states: raise your drinking age to 21 or we cut your federal highway funds. 

If the federal government was so inclined, they could and would find a way to get states to mandate mask-wearing in public during a health emergency. I don't want to cross the no-politics rule, so I'm not saying what I think should be done, I'm just saying that it could be done.

Different era.  Not nearly the partisanship.  If that was tried today, a case would be brought in Federal Court and the Feds action would be deemed unconstitutional.

Remember the hue and cry when Trump said he could order the states to reopen? Here’s a reminder: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/834040912...-to-reopen