[gandalfgeek]

> Government agencies in general are largely insulated from politics.

This was obviously false during the pandemic when these “health” agencies did what the White House wanted, from the actual “science” to the messaging.

[amanaplanacanal]

Same president both times. Same bad idea.

[oblio]

You can both be right. Goverment agencies can do their own thing under normal circumstances and be politicized when their activity is the focus of a huge political event, like a pandemic.

[UncleMeat]

Did the left secretly run the white house in 2020?