With Trump's latest dingbat distraction about his purportedly absolute authority to "reopen the economy", while the constitutional problem is pretty straightforward that's overshadowing the logical problem. There's really no level of government which has much of any authority ...
2/ to "reopen the economy". Unless we devise some new service sector analog to the DPA, no one can force a restaurant to reopen and serve food or command a movie theater to show movies or really anything else. Even more obviously, government can't command anybody to go ...
3/ sit and eat a burrito in the local chipotle or sit in a Starbucks. At all levels, the government's ability to shutter things is vastly greater than its ability to open anything or command normal behavior. Again, obvious but it's a part of this question that seems ignored.
