Animus as intense as yours doesn’t come naturally, but gets taught. As the westboro maniacs use scripture to justify their bile, so I suspect your “fair amount of …training and experience in public health” is the hook on which you hang your own mental poison. Tillerman, seemingly a man of moderate temperament toward his fellow man would be better suited psychologically to be in a position of governance that one burdened with such crippling venom aimed at an entire human subset and claiming education as its rationalization.
Right, I tracked the young boys they infected in Ca. These boys are not just infected with sometimes deadly viruses but they are mentally scarred for life by these perverts. Perhaps you might feel more compassion for the kids if one belonged to you.