I doubt the people who become public health officials spend their high school and college years envisioning themselves running restaurant inspections, issuing food recalls when a pathogen is found in one production batch, and issuing the standard yearly call to get the flu shot.
Covid, for senior staffers like Fauci, would've struck them as "the pandemic we've been preparing for all our lives." Their one great opportunity to be public health heroes.
There's a book, The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov. He describes how North Korea's teachers have false knowledge, because the Kim regime commands them to pass manufactured lies on to their students. Things such as made-up tales about the youthful heroism of Kim Il Sung.
I doubt the people who become public health officials spend their high school and college years envisioning themselves running restaurant inspections, issuing food recalls when a pathogen is found in one production batch, and issuing the standard yearly call to get the flu shot.
Covid, for senior staffers like Fauci, would've struck them as "the pandemic we've been preparing for all our lives." Their one great opportunity to be public health heroes.
There's a book, The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov. He describes how North Korea's teachers have false knowledge, because the Kim regime commands them to pass manufactured lies on to their students. Things such as made-up tales about the youthful heroism of Kim Il Sung.
Good analogy