It is a catch-22. When the federal government makes all the decisions, they can't tailor the needs of each individual state that vary greatly. People would complain that the decision doesn't meet their needs. If they hand down the power to states and they aren't competent or ready to take it, people complain. Hopefully, we won't get enough "practice" to be good at this. It's almost like communication and building out a plan would've been useful over the past 6 months. Everyone just passed the buck to everyone else and assumed someone else would figure it out. As another poster said, this isn't just a government thing but even the private sector and anywhere you have multiple levels of management. Of course, most people are going to blame the feds and the person who was in charge at the time but the US is not a country where you can take a one size fits all approach. The way California handles it's vaccines would be in no way the same that Montana would. Heck, same would apply at the county level too. Milwaukee County and Iron County would have vastly different needs.