> As much as the organizations that I worked with don't want waste, the bias is to side with clean, unreproachable conduct even if this is more wasteful. The p

> As much as the organizations that I worked with don't want waste, the bias is to side with clean, unreproachable conduct even if this is more wasteful. The problem with this, which few in the government seem to understand, is that knowingly and wilfully letting people die needlessly in a pandemic is deeply reproachable conduct. Personally, I'd actually call such conduct despicable. But my personal standards of conduct could perhaps be much higher than average, so we can leave it at reproachable as a basline.