I see their posters, etc., and think about micro-trials embedded in longitudinal studies under randomized conditions --through which we would learn whether these investments of tax dollars do anything useful beyond window-dressing for the government.
This is the kind of possibly cynical question that CV Chaplin advocated when he was told to use his limited Commissioner of Public Health dollars to continue the practice of "terminal disinfection" in Providence, RI, more than 100 years ago, something he regarded as a kind of "ceremony of incantation " in public health work. Anniversary of his death = January 31.
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