I think it will be impossible to get the whole country to comply, because we have too many people who are brainwashed, who are terrified it is the next step to communism. The only person who could maybe do it is Trump, and he won’t. I am not sure if the president has the authority, the federal government does have the authority to quarantine people if I understand correctly.
We are a huge country, so I actually don’t mind that we do it by state, but we need to cut off travel between states for 4–5 weeks. Really, what is the big deal about that for a month? Metro areas that cross states would have some exceptions for work and that sort of thind. Anyone who does travel across state lines is under supervised quarantine for 14 days when they arrive. Advise people to stay within 15 miles of their house unless it is necessary to travel farther for work or medical reasons. I would keep all the stores open, put in mask orders, restaurants do take out, add an automatic tip to pay the staff their usual wages, people who can work from home should. States can rely on in-state commerce for the month. Then, we see what states are doing great and then can decide what to do from there.
The states where people are compliant will have their numbers go way down, and the states that aren’t won’t. Right now it is not a blue state problem, it is an all state problem, so that rhetoric is garbage now. It always was garbage, my state is a red state and my state has always had fairly high numbers, but it was blamed on New Yorkers.
If a state actually closed it’s borders and got the case number down to close to nothing or actually nothing and no longer had to wear masks and everything was wide open like Australia, maybe then the no maskers would finally believe. That is the only thing I see convincing them. People dying does not change their minds. The 4 weeks would not get it all down to nothing, but if a state was doing well I think a governor could convince people to continue another two weeks to be able to open everything.
If my state had zero cases, Floridians would all be traveling within state freely and be booking hotels and eating in restaurants. We don’t need the tourists from out of state if they are just going to make us sick. I would have a Disney Annual pass right now if FL was covid free. I would plan a vacation to the beach. I would pay an extra $1,000 in taxes for 2020 to help the state budget if we controlled the borders of the state and enforced a quarantine for newcomers, as long as they are cutting spending where possible.