‘Most of us would be happy if government simply adopted the mantra of the medical profession: “FIRST–DO NO HARM!”’
Huh? As if practitioners would consider harming patients?
An insulting phrase that should die. When the patient doth protest under the surgeon’s knife, or the chest tube, or being intubated, there is an understanding that the trauma of surgeries and chemo and pain and therapies will hopefully, eventually, lead to resolution of the health problem, or at least mitigate it for average livability.
Addressing multi-faceted challenges like anthropogenic climate change, institutionalized racism, increasing economic inequality (which, the long view would show would hurt the rich far more than the poor but alas!, ignorance rules the day), takes government and private sectors working hard and aligned to keep the balance of life going.
With the leadership of NASA, National Academy of Sciences, AMS, NWS, AMA, JPL - hundreds of legitimate sources, governments, and private firms working on this dangerous, existential threat from climate change - not unlike the pandemic - just how does the constant, repeated whine of impatience and hatred of all things gummint reveal your ‘I’m right You’re Wrong!’ stance?
Never gets old, eh?