The thing that has struck me throughout this pandemic is just how invisible the cogs of public administration…

The thing that has struck me throughout this pandemic is just how invisible the cogs of public administration are to nearly everybody. SARS-1 highlights this (bear with me). /1 https://t.co/r2KFCOnLSY

It’s not a huge stretch to assume SARS-2 may share some features of SARS-1. As the article says, people who caught that are often still suffering a decade later. But in this pandemic, the RCT-type arguments assume this is a scientific debate. /2

Public administration isn’t done like that. It uses risk management and an understanding of the complexity of social processes, in multiple dimensions. In the case of SARS-2, the fact SARS-1 has these long-term impacts would immediately trigger a risk management approach. /3

Caution, and an understanding of the complexity of implementing any strategies. It would never wait for definitive scientific proof to act in some way. The public, and the administration that creates and sustains it, has been destroyed in the past 50 years. /4

People line up behind competing experts, when the job of defeating a pandemic is a job for the public administrators who have been sidelined so badly in the past decades, that many are unaware they even exist. It’s a highly specific skill set, enormously complex work. /ends