Sure, if we lived in a state that had little to no meaningful mandates - and the state did nothing at all meaningful to keep their citizens protected- sure - we could argue that it needs to be a federal issue.

What you actually mean, hopefully, is that no local employees, who have no medical training, who have no state law training, nor special health emergency mandate training, who also have no state funding nor state backing to investigate and inform everyone involved - should never be put in a situation like this to begin with..

And hopefully you also mean that if Kate Brown continues to fall further behind with mandates and protections ( she has been in state government since ~1994 , and we have plenty of other problems : tens of thousands of unemployment claims still backlogged, pua claims backlogged, dhs shortfalls, medicaid shortfalls, infrastructure failures, affordable housing failures, school failures w/ graduation rates and test scores, etc etc )

If our state leaders continue to fail handling all these other issues, should we claim those should all also be federal issues, too?

At what point do we rely on our local government and hold our local government accountable for local government issues?