@mrsaturday >political waters rather than staying in their lane.
that's because the politics came into THEIR lane.
politicians TO THIS DAY are interfering with public health
In the US and canada.
in saskatchewan, the SHA explicitly has been told that they *can't* do contact tracing & public disclosure of information about the pandemic and more because their saskparty masters have ordered them to keep the public in the dark.
The government ordered schools to not require masks, despite clear legal requirement to do so. That was public health officials *and* educators being hamstrung by politicians
The politicians are most of the problem. A good chunk of the other part of the problem is that replacing them is extremely difficult rn, because only covidiots can successfully campaign right now.
@jeffcliff That's a lie. No one forced the WHO to pretend Taiwan, which was suffering from covid as bad as anyone, didn't exist, or give deferential treatment to China early on. No one forced public health experts to take months of advice they had given and add an asterisk that covid doesn't spread during race riots. No one forced them to say "masks don't work so be sure to save them for hospital staff until we can ramp up production." Some waffling on the issues is excusable but a lot of their behavior was obvious gaslighting with a heavy dose of authoritarianism.
@jeffcliff Typical journo trash making everything about "right wing bad." Early on in the pandemic they said masks were ineffective, so they needed to be reserved for hospital staff until we can produce more. Huh? That's not even getting into all of the times our public health experts decided to wade into political waters rather than staying in their lane. They handled it extremely poorly and only have themselves to blame.