Since March last year I’ve been saying that the way most Western politicians and their public health sidekicks have handled this corona virus amounts to the worst public policy decision-making of the last few centuries. It’s been a disgrace. And that’s saying a lot. So here’s my flowchart or decision-making tree of how any freedom-respecting politician (to be clear, this obviously does not include Scotty from marketing) should have approached this pandemic and any future ones.