Possibly, but I suspect the modal examples are just amazingly incompetent, and do whatever their bosses say. Those bosses are probably effectively in the pocket of the pharma companies, however, and so yea, they are probably entirely indifferent to whether or not some act makes public health better or worse, and act in ways that make it worse.
Everyone in every "important" organization intuitively knows what "The Current Thing" is and that they can't go against that authorized narrative. Nobody wants to be cast out of the herd.
My conclusion: "The home of the brave" doesn't have enough brave citizens.
Yes, I think most bureaucracies' survival function selects for the ability to be on the right side of the current political question. Those that would oppose that side for whatever reason are weeded out or remain at lower levels.
I don't know about the home of the brave angle. I can't quite understand how people can see such behavior in government institutions and not demand they be shut down. Seems like as often as not I just see people say "Those institutions were horrible! We need to replace the people in them with our people!" as though the structure doesn't select for the people inside of it, or in other words, it would go right back to misbehaving, possibly in a different way, because those sorts of institutional structures do not lead to the outcomes we want.
Maybe the citizens need to be brave enough to not have the government nanny as a backstop?
Most of our "important" organizations are so captured by now that they could never be "reformed." As Ripley said in "Aliens," "We have to nuke (the planet). That's the only way we can be sure."
The argument that the "Science" and "Health" Establishment really want to promote poor health is that these same institutions benefit from more people having poor health.
For example, if these non-vaccines really do increase the incidence of cancer, the health establishment is going to make even more money on cancer drugs and treatments. Right now, I see a flurry of Shingles Vaccine commercials. The damn Covid vaccine probably caused shingles.
Before Covid, the State Health Agencies seemed to exist only to promote the flu vaccine. They've been pushing those shots hard for decades - but the flu is still around and just as bad as ever.
If the flu went away or was cured, what would the army of people who work at these agencies do?
A cynic might conclude that the real goal of the public health agencies is to worsen "public health."
Possibly, but I suspect the modal examples are just amazingly incompetent, and do whatever their bosses say. Those bosses are probably effectively in the pocket of the pharma companies, however, and so yea, they are probably entirely indifferent to whether or not some act makes public health better or worse, and act in ways that make it worse.
Everyone in every "important" organization intuitively knows what "The Current Thing" is and that they can't go against that authorized narrative. Nobody wants to be cast out of the herd.
My conclusion: "The home of the brave" doesn't have enough brave citizens.
Yes, I think most bureaucracies' survival function selects for the ability to be on the right side of the current political question. Those that would oppose that side for whatever reason are weeded out or remain at lower levels.
I don't know about the home of the brave angle. I can't quite understand how people can see such behavior in government institutions and not demand they be shut down. Seems like as often as not I just see people say "Those institutions were horrible! We need to replace the people in them with our people!" as though the structure doesn't select for the people inside of it, or in other words, it would go right back to misbehaving, possibly in a different way, because those sorts of institutional structures do not lead to the outcomes we want.
Maybe the citizens need to be brave enough to not have the government nanny as a backstop?
Most of our "important" organizations are so captured by now that they could never be "reformed." As Ripley said in "Aliens," "We have to nuke (the planet). That's the only way we can be sure."
"My conclusion: "The home of the brave" doesn't have enough brave citizens."
Bill is, dare I say, en fuego.
The argument that the "Science" and "Health" Establishment really want to promote poor health is that these same institutions benefit from more people having poor health.
For example, if these non-vaccines really do increase the incidence of cancer, the health establishment is going to make even more money on cancer drugs and treatments. Right now, I see a flurry of Shingles Vaccine commercials. The damn Covid vaccine probably caused shingles.
Before Covid, the State Health Agencies seemed to exist only to promote the flu vaccine. They've been pushing those shots hard for decades - but the flu is still around and just as bad as ever.
If the flu went away or was cured, what would the army of people who work at these agencies do?
That is certainly the goal of тАЬBig PharmaтАЭ
Cynic? Or maybe just a realist...