‘evidence-based” is a code for “shut up and do what I say”
Evidence based means it is open to interpretation and that you cannot believe your lying eyes. If it dresses as a woman, it must be a woman. We used to call them transvestites or cross dressers.
Public health officials don’t seem to have any background or degree in a health field. Our state public health officials don’t seem to have any degree at all. You would have to be uneducated to do things like push the study of sewage to prove an imminent Covid outbreak and force the closure of a private Christian school that remained opened during Covid.