The scenario you describe as obvious for a sane society is something I can't imagine a president doing. It's not just that it's so wildly out of character for Trump. I can't imagine Obama or Clinton or Reagan doing it either. (Maybe Nixon. The world has changed a lot since Nixon.)
We never even meaningfully tried to solve the problem of "How do we make it possible for people to keep out of the grocery stores? Particularly people that are exposed by presymptomatic, or mildly symptomatic, who aren't terribly motivated to submit to quarantine?"
In New York, back in March when the US epidemic was just starting. Thinking a whole community had been exposed the governor closed local schools, advised people not to go more than a mile from home, sent in the national guard to distribute food. I recall the response being something like "How dare he impose martial law!" Paying private enterprise solves that problem.
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Date: 2020-05-06 07:40 pm (UTC)We never even meaningfully tried to solve the problem of "How do we make it possible for people to keep out of the grocery stores? Particularly people that are exposed by presymptomatic, or mildly symptomatic, who aren't terribly motivated to submit to quarantine?"
In New York, back in March when the US epidemic was just starting. Thinking a whole community had been exposed the governor closed local schools, advised people not to go more than a mile from home, sent in the national guard to distribute food. I recall the response being something like "How dare he impose martial law!" Paying private enterprise solves that problem.