I would agree with you on quite a few points regarding how ill conceived quite a bit of government action is, whether on the national, state or local level. However, in the case of the possibility of a pandemic outbreak, all levels of government should do everything possible to spread "best practice" information to keep the nation as a whole as healthy as possible.

And I will apologize for the lack of information in my post, it really should have been followed up by a comment regarding the money that has been dumped into this all over the country and up to the national level.

On this subject, and a few others, I think it's good for the gub'ment to step in with the most current and best possible information (hopefully) available. It's information that I'd rather get from them, possibly unfortunately, than by word of mouth or several different sources with conflicting information and a lack of consensus on the major issues.

And believe me, for me that's really saying something with how little I trust the gub'ment to do the right thing in most cases.

As far as the "the left coast, right coast, red state, blue state" brouhaha goes, I tend to believe any person leaning so far in one direction or the other as to believe a quarter of whatever the leaders and the leader's minions are spewing forth is falling into a trap meant to intentionally keep people polarized so those leaders can hold onto their jobs, make money hand over fist, and fiddle while Rome burns.

Call me a nut-case...

As always, I could be wrong.