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When you have the public busy dealing with an avoidable crisis, you have less people focused and criticizing on all the real bullshit the rest of the administration is doing.
Additionally, when more people are dying and an authority figure is spewing nonsense science, it gets people to believe that science and/or logic aren’t helpful, and instead religion, horoscopes, or whatever “tax break man” says are correct. Essentially just making sure newspeak is trusted