Getting Public Health wrong is bad politics.

Too bad politicians didn't know that.

You can get away with fucking up Public Health for a while.

But eventually it will fuck you up.

It WILL bite you in the end.

But in this world of micropolling, they thought they could get away with it.

WHOOPS.

You can't handle Public Health as just another political problem.

The rules are NOT the same. The same tactics don't work.

You can't spin it.

You can't micropoll it.

You can't deflect.

You can't whataboutism your way out of it.

You have to cede control to science.

That means, as a government, you can't message-control it.

You have to let others do all the talking and deciding.

Politicians in a govt don't know how to do that.

It doesn't compute in their political brains.

Especially this government.

They didn't see this coming.

They really thought they could spin it no matter how bad pandemic got.

*Because that's all they know*.

All they know is spin manipulation, and message control.

When spin becomes policy in a public health crisis, people die.

And eventually, you can't spin away the bad outcomes.

It WILL get out.

And people will be horrified.

People will be mad.

And who will they blame?

**The guy who was in their face every day at the podium.**

The guy who couldn't give up control.

The guy who had to hog the stage.

The people who made all the decisions, as was hammered into our heads every day with daily press conferences.

So the govt can't even blame anyone else.

They're stuck.

They have to throw *themselves* under the bus, or desperately try to blame another government.

That's the corner they painted themselves into.

ALL could have been avoided.

Not just 3rd Wave.

But the political damage.

It is GOOD POLITICS to cede control to science, and straight-talking, un-messaged, zero spin health officials.

(Fin)