US Government Kept a Ludicrously Irrational COVID Ban in Place for Months and Months, but Media Bashes the Supposed Irrationality of Private Citizens mtracey.substack.com/p/us-governmen…
The US finally re-opened the Canadian land border this week. Brian Higgins, congressman from the Buffalo area, tried in vain for months to get an explanation for why the border had been closed so long. As did other elected officials. Turned out there *never was* any explanation! 
One takeaway from this: how ridiculous it is for the media and politicians to spend so much time berating individual celebrities and athletes for their personal decision-making, while largely ignoring the demonstrably nonsensical and arbitrary decision-making of the US Government
To emphasize: I asked numerous elected officials at different levels of government in a border region -- all Dems -- why the Dem administration kept this ban in place for so long, and all indicated they *never even received an explanation*! New heights in bureaucratic chicanery
If this is how insanely unresponsive the federal bureaucracy was, despite months of constant bipartisan lobbying -- about a huge issue affecting millions of people and billions of $$$ -- imagine the maddening inertia of smaller COVID-based bureaucracies that fly under the radar
Perhaps, but this also leads to a kind of nihilism that elides the unique insanity of state bureaucratic behavior like this Canadian land border fiasco
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