If the government cared about your health and well-being, they wouldn't break up families over a plant.
If the government cared about climate change, they wouldn't be dropping bombs around the world decade after decade.
If the government cared about children, they wouldn't force them to participate in a cookie-cutter education system that doesn't allow for their individual interests to be pursued.
If the government cared about the poor, they wouldn't tax them into the dirt while printing money endlessly, devaluing people's hard-earned cash.
If the government cared about accountability, they wouldn't shield pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits when their products hurt or kill someone.
If the government cared about safety during a "pandemic," they wouldn't ignore and break their own safety rules again and again and again.
If the government cared about fairness, they wouldn't allow lobbyists to buy their way into law-making.
If the government cared about your safety, they wouldn't force you to accept a shitty, one-size-fits-all public security service called the police, who are not even legally required to protect you.
If the government cared about individual choice and consent, they would not force individuals to live under a system of literal mob rule.
If the government cared about integrity, those in jail for marijuana charges in states where the plant is now legal would be set free.
If the government cared about the immunocompromised, the disabled, and at-risk populations, they would not be launching propaganda campaigns and mandating exclusion from society for those that simply cannot receive a non-long-term-tested medical intervention.
If the government cared about your life, they would abolish themselves, and let individuals everywhere live and let live via private property, deciding for themselves in their communities how they wish to live, and NOT force systematic violence and extortion on everyone via blanket, arbitrary edicts which openly promote and sustain the enslavement of individuals around the world.
The "government" is nothing more than the world's largest crime syndicate.
The biggest terrorist humanity has ever known.
Google: "Voluntaryism"
In as much as there are good points raised in your article, I must say governance considers a whole lot. It may appear straightforward from the outside but within, it is a whole different ball game.