[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Actually, it isn't. You're conflating the mechanism of representation of populations, the formation of policy, and the influence of opinion on policy of how government operates. Governments make many decisions that are not political in nature all the time. Many large issues in government are resolved without political interference in any shape or form. Healthcare is one of those areas where tens of thousands of decisions are made daily without political interference.

Those decisions are made based on the policies set by politicians.

Many divisions of government are apolitical and only execute policy.

The policies themselves are a matter of politics.

Branches concerned with healthcare are normally apolitical and only execute policy and plans.

Political policy and political plans.

Considering there is policy on the books as to how to handle pandemic, these divisions of government would be able to respond without politics entering into the equation.

There are multiple conflicting policies on the books, and there are also basic, long-standing human rights that the policies, as written, may easily infringe upon. Many people here think that it is appropriate to put people under permanent house arrest for failing to carry papers proving vaccination, even though there are hundreds of years of case and constitutional law denying that the state has the authority to force people to carry papers period. (Not to mention hundreds of years of case and constitutional law forbidding detention without trial and conviction.) That is most definitely a political question, and one that goes right to the root of the nature of a liberal society.

The fact that there needs to be debate about the execution of a long standing plan on dealing with pandemic is clear example of "making an issue political" and clear political interference in the response.

Long-standing plan? The ‘plan’ consists of a bunch of mutually contradictory orders issued in knee-jerk fashion from month to month and week to week. Open everything up! Shut it all down again! No shutdowns! Open the bars but shut down the churches! OK, open the churches to 50 people but the stores to 100. And close the schools, no wait, open them, no, close them again. Wait, now, let's abolish all outdoor meetings. Except the ones for causes we approve of, those can go ahead. Until we say they can't.

That is not how most of the government works. Again, most divisions are apolitical and just get the job done. Only where the grandstanding idiots in Washington/Ottawa try to make a name for themselves through a very public means of interference in execution of existing plans does your ideal come to reality.

Throughout, you assume that the policies in place are correct and beyond question or alteration. If any of the policies need to be altered – and they are being altered from day to day – then those are political decisions and that is a political process. It is purely fatuous to pretend otherwise.