Exactly. These people think that if you need someone competent, an electrician, a car mechanic, a rocket scientist, you just go out and hire him because he is out there. What we need at the top are those with the right political orientation. What they don't understand is that you can get your car serviced by a competent mechanic only because the owner of the car-dealer made the decision to hire car mechanics who are good mechanics and not those who have a political correctness qualification.
The whole society is like that. Why do you think communist Europe collapsed like one of those high rise brought down with explosive charges?
A CDC run by politically useful idiots ensures that we will not have a competent public health system, not deliberately, but as a direct but likely unintended byproduct of their incompetence.
You have valid points. I do believe the cause of this stupidity is the public education system. We stopped teaching critical thinking many moons ago.
"Atlas Shrugged" was written by an escapee from the iron curtain who knew how it worked and she projected that onto American Society to demonstrate what could be. It explores that very premise, that when the competent get tired of fighting the relentless and cruel power-hungry fools and decide to just check out what happens to society. Spoiler: increasing oppression to compensate for utter lack of competence until the breaking point which results in a sudden almost instant and total crash.