May be cynical, but I increasingly feel that saying that the government, or one of its agencies, "does something" is nonsensical. We have a government, and things come out of it. But at this stage they seem more like emergent properties or epiphenomena than deliberate actions
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If you operate under the assumption that most agencies’ implicit goal is increasing budget and most officials’ implicit goal is maximizing for career then most mysteries about government function seem sharply less mysterious.
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Seen under this light, of the portfolio of all government agencies worldwide, there has been no greater success that public health agencies this year and no better position to be in than a civil servant or elected official Confidently Managing Our Epidemic.
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