The state was the immediate enforcer of a policy that was recommended to them by the Trump administration. The Trump administration not only recommended it, they provided the support that was needed to implement it.
You talk like you seem to think that all of a sudden out of the blue 40+ states all implemented cookie-cutter lockdown orders independently from one another in a span of a couple days by shear coincidence.
If you really want to look at this objectively and get answers, and not just make excuses for Trump, check out the document,
[FONT="]“The U.S. Government COVID-19 Response Plan”, [/FONT]which his administration released. Download it, and do a search for every occurrence of "SLTT" (for state, local, tribal and territorial government). Notice how those state measures were implementations of a plan that came down to them from the Trump administration, and all the things in that document about how federal support would be provided for them. Take note of what it says on pages 22 and 49 in particular.
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