Germany is a federal republic much like the US. In Germany Angela Merkel has regular meetings with all heads of the individual states to discuss the collective strategy against corona. The result is a unified strategy with all states agreeing and enacting similar rules in unison. Of course there are slight differences in the actions taken but overall everyone agrees with the exact same strategy and supports it fully, The smaller and less affected states are abiding by the same rules as the most affected states. As much as I hate federalism it works alright in my country.
In the US local governments cannot even agree with their own state, let alone the federal government. Has there even been any attempt to have a unified strategy? I think the US might be doing federalism wrong. Or maybe the state governments in Germany aren't comprised half by morons.
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