Analysis: The hodge-podge of state responses to coronavirus is a threat to the country’s health. It’s time for the federal government to use its full powers
striking down that state’s administrative stay-at-home order made painfully clear, the state-by-state approach to dealing with the coronavirus crisis is inconsistent and ineffective. The court’s blunt ruling, which made no provision for how to protect the public, prompted throngs of Wisconsinites to pack the bars, gleefully ignoring advice from health officials about the need to maintain social distancing.
A federal order of this magnitude will sound to some like a step toward tyranny. But the question is whether saving thousands of lives and staving off another Depression are worth the price of finite, albeit substantial, infringements on individual liberties. The Trump administration has resisted such drastic measures, shunting responsibility onto the states, but the power is nevertheless within the executive branch, and it can be imposed without violating the Constitution.
One reason the federal government can constitutionally infringe on all kinds of individual rights is that sometimes protecting the greater public good requires it. Threatening the president is a
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