>Notably, the state government’s pandemic response was dictated by facts, indeed the chief health officer responsible Dictated by culture. To say that everyon

>Notably, the state government’s pandemic response was dictated by facts, indeed the chief health officer responsible Dictated by culture. To say that everyone else was dictated by things-that-weren't-empirical is nothing short of a naive reading of how laws and social policy are set. There are values.