POTUS can definitely do this, it's well within the law. Commercial truck drivers should be second priority to get HCQ as a preventative measure, behind healthcare workers who I hope are already on it. Then the drivers can't spread it. Then commercial vehicles can be allowed to pass.
Treating the cargo shouldn't be impossible. Hopefully it's already being studied how long this virus can stay alive on various surfaces. Cardboard boxes and wooden pallets are probably very different from hard surfaces in this respect. Expose a skid full to some rain and it's probably altogether different yet again.
Lots of room for cutting corners to spread infection. Greedy assholes gonna mess everything up. Only option to that risk is further disruption of the supply chain.
China owes the rest of the world a debt it can never repay!
Interstate commerce? Hard to say the federal government has the ability to prohibit movement between states...
POTUS can definitely do this, it's well within the law. Commercial truck drivers should be second priority to get HCQ as a preventative measure, behind healthcare workers who I hope are already on it. Then the drivers can't spread it. Then commercial vehicles can be allowed to pass.
Treating the cargo shouldn't be impossible. Hopefully it's already being studied how long this virus can stay alive on various surfaces. Cardboard boxes and wooden pallets are probably very different from hard surfaces in this respect. Expose a skid full to some rain and it's probably altogether different yet again.
Lots of room for cutting corners to spread infection. Greedy assholes gonna mess everything up. Only option to that risk is further disruption of the supply chain.
China owes the rest of the world a debt it can never repay!