Epidemiology doesn't work without taking into account politics.

You can't have go unpunished specialists conspiring (or at best, just unconsciously covering their ass) when they're the ones that are supposed to be on the front lines preventing and fighting epidemics !

P.S.: Wow, I just remembered... this lampooning hits quite differently now !

https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM?t=504