Why is that? I’m assuming that panic would mean more isolation and only going out to gather essentials like food and medicine. With that assumption it seems like it’d be easier to do contact tracing.
and reaching out to the community to get them messages about what they should or should not do when people are panicking
If the internet stays up I don’t see why there’d be a problem here.
Lots of essential industries like the water company and the electric company need other parts of the economy, like delivery trucks and computer-logistics systems to continue functioning.
Delivery trucks certainly seem essential. Would throwing money at it solve that problem? Eg. paying workers 2-3x their wages? What about the army stepping in to help here?
“The government” in the US certainly doesn’t have the authority to do most of these things. Governors can declare a state of emergency on a per-state basis, but commandeering resources would still be hard to justify legally. They would try to do it anyways, but a state government doesn’t have enough people to actually do most of this.
Like you say, it seems likely that they would do it anyway. In that case, the question is whether they have the resources to pull it off. I assume the federal government would step in. And there are about 2M active + reserve personnel in the armed forces. I assume they would be utilized to help deal with this during a true panic.
Why is that? I’m assuming that panic would mean more isolation and only going out to gather essentials like food and medicine. With that assumption it seems like it’d be easier to do contact tracing.
If the internet stays up I don’t see why there’d be a problem here.
Delivery trucks certainly seem essential. Would throwing money at it solve that problem? Eg. paying workers 2-3x their wages? What about the army stepping in to help here?
Like you say, it seems likely that they would do it anyway. In that case, the question is whether they have the resources to pull it off. I assume the federal government would step in. And there are about 2M active + reserve personnel in the armed forces. I assume they would be utilized to help deal with this during a true panic.