Government being government, I understand why this doesn't work, but states literally have a list of people without jobs and their occupations that they're already paying. If the health department could/would just talk to the unemployment department...
Northeast states like NY, NJ, CT, Mass were able to mobilize after the initial crisis and rapidly hired and got systems in place to do contact tracing.
In the south, you have the conflict between municipal and county authorities managing the crisis on the ground while the obsequious governors are busy sucking up.
It’s depressing that the tragedy of what happened in April didn’t result in more intelligent actions in other places based in the lessons learned.
My parents who are about to retire do not want this.
The only reason for it was because offering spam blocking service was a cash cow for phone companies, so hey lobbied against any effective governance to stop it (finally some was passed in late 2019). If people have an interest in something, the government is barely responsive, it took years and years. Special interests that can pay to lobby for it get their way right away unless there is pretty huge backlash.