State openings bring risks, huge stakes for America and its President
CNNCNN — America is stirring, but it’s every state for itself. Still, Frieden cautioned that the longer fight against the pandemic, which he described as the worst public health threat in 100 years, is “just beginning.” A pandemic respects no state borders, and there is a real chance that states taking a risk by opening could eventually make the situation worse for all the others. Trump offered sympathy to them on Friday morning, urging the state’s Democratic governor to “give a little, and put out the fire.” “These are very good people, but they are angry,” Trump tweeted. See them, talk to them, make a deal.” A mixed picture of openings and extended restrictions In one sense, the staged openings represent federalism at work – as local power in states across a vast nation is applied to local circumstances without directives from a distant government in Washington. “I think I’ve handled it – and not me; I think our whole group has been spectacular,” Trump said Thursday, highlighting in particular the non-emergence of a once feared ventilator shortage.
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