A couple weeks ago,
a politician
‘strongly recommended’
everyone wear masks indoors.
Medical experts
said that step was useless.
The average person
wouldn’t wear a mask
unless it was mandated.
The politician
isn’t a dumb a$$.
He KNEW recommending
that people wear masks
wouldn’t change anything.
He didn’t WANT to change anything.
But if he shared THAT truth,
the media and his opponents
would jump all over it.
He’d receive
re-election-crippling bad press.
So he took an action
that would have no impact
on anything
yet made it look like
he WAS taking action.
I’ve seen this happen
in business all the time.
Employees are leaving, for example,
due to their wages being sh*t.
Management, instead of increasing wages,
installs a suggestion box
in the break room.
It does nothing
but it looks like action
is being taken.
When the ‘solution’ to a problem
is clearly useless,
that leader doesn’t want
the problem to be solved.
The answer is ‘no.’