> Businesses that rely on the border between OR and WA would sue for relief in a hot minute.
So if you gave them relief preemptively they'd be OK, right?
In any case, you don't need border closures. Even things like suspending or massively reducing domestic air travel, introducing compulsory self-quarantine upon arrival in a new state etc. might be better than doing nothing. I'm not an expert, but it seems like we never even tried.
In the EU most countries still had borders open for commercial traffic even during the height of the quarantine. This applied not only to trucks shipping tomatoes from southern Europe (rather vital), but also to a plumber hopping across the border to get slightly cheaper products (not so vital).
So if you gave them relief preemptively they'd be OK, right?
In any case, you don't need border closures. Even things like suspending or massively reducing domestic air travel, introducing compulsory self-quarantine upon arrival in a new state etc. might be better than doing nothing. I'm not an expert, but it seems like we never even tried.