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Re:California, Oregon and Washington announce western states... by BurningFrog on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:33PM (#22860314)
Then again, that one group of states would become a Single Point of Failure.

If that centralized and coordinated leadership is incompetent and/or corrupt, there is no Plan B.

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Re:California, Oregon and Washington announce western states... by jschwartzi on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:45PM (#22860448)
Except that in a federal system like the United States each individual state government can mount a real response like we've done in Washington where the epidemiological curve has flattened significantly in the past 3 or 4 weeks versus where it was heading before we began social distancing.
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Re:California, Oregon and Washington announce western states... by mulmen on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:42PM (#22860423)
Sure there is. The Western States Pact is the plan B.
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Re:California, Oregon and Washington announce western states... by BurningFrog on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:26PM (#22861660)
That's my point :)

I'm arguing letting the central federal government handle everything.

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Re:California, Oregon and Washington announce western states... by mulmen on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:57PM (#22862339)
Sorry I got hung up on "there is no plan B". I prefer we have a coordinated response here as well (plan A). That's not happening so the "plan B" is states working together.
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