How COVID Broke Up The United States

It’s every state for themselves

“Four months ago this map could reasonably have been interpreted as a near-future dystopian world-building schema for a series of young adult books.” (Ankit Panda)

The United States Of America does not have a national government. States are on their own to decide closures, to find their own PPE, to bid against each other for ventilators. Governors have become the government, but with porous borders, the virus doesn’t care.