>We NEED enforcement of the new rules(6ft, masks) because they're not being followed where I'm at.
How should those things be enforced in your opinion?
How should those things be enforced in your opinion?
The easiest way would be to hire inspectors to go around and inspect places during business hours and close them down if they're not in compliance.
That or a federal jobs program of "safety enforcer" paid for by the fed and placed in every business of X size or whatever. The former seems more likely.
California and Washington are both running massive deficits due to their harsh quarantine measures and will literally be out of money in a few months. Many cities are already running out of money.
Seattle, San Francisco, LA, NYC... all are heading towards bankruptcy or massive layoffs.
Many cops and teachers are about to be laid off. Prisons will be releasing prisoners to make budgets meet.
And here people are talking about a whole new squad of police that do nothing but enforce distancing and mask-wearing. With what money?
https://www.usmayors.org/2020/04/14/cities-report-pandemic-c...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-cities-...
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-la-cities...
This is like the old line about education ("if you think it's expensive, try ignorance").
There isn't any such thing as "ending lockdown" without certain cooperative measures. Either we'll take the necessary collective steps to control spread and coordinate recovery behavior... or we won't, and we'll have both the uncontrolled spread and the second order uncoordinated responses including large portions of people sitting out economic participation in order to manage personal risk.
Maybe it'll take some kind of civil enforcement to do this. Maybe most people will cooperate.
Maybe the federal government will lend local governments money to help. Or it won't, or it will, but will come with stipulations designed to weaken the ability of local institutions to act counter to partisan ends of those in control of the Senate and executive.
But anyone on team "end lockdown" should hope there is cooperation, and enough enforcement to encourage it at the margins. And if funding is a problem, then private and public entities alike at least in theory have some incentive to come up with a way to solve the problems that need to be solved to support higher levels of activity.