This infuriates me as well.
What you point out lines up perfectly with many other things the Gov and medical community have done to make this situation worse. We could fill pages with bullet points they have done to make this situation as bad as possible.
If they were just dumb, they would have gotten half of them right. But they are 0 for 100.
They’re not dumb, they’re bad. But lots of people still give them the benefit of the doubt. Unbelievable.
“They’re not dumb, they’re bad.”
Evil is a more accurate word.