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taking control to chaos
‘taking control’ is not the same
as tearing apart
‘control’ hints at redesigning
rebuilding, moderating to make better
but the Center for Disease Control
and the Presidential Cabinet Secretary
of Health and Human Services
being in the charge of people
with no medical training would seem
to imply willful incompetence
and deliberate demolition of needful
functions for the good health of Americans
no one can control chaos or entropy
one can only attempt to re-build
inevitably at greater cost
delegating
a man who cannot reach competence
but has bluffed, bullied, and threatened
on his scramble-climb to power
chooses non-threatening unqualified
heads for departments beneath him
that he wishes to fail so he will have
a ready-made scapegoat
for when they do