Institutions are hard to build and easy to break. Universities, ministries, companies. They usually accumulate a lot of insights and institutional knowledge and can respond pretty well to a wide variety of situations with usually good success.
Of course, sometimes they misfire or react baldy. Sometimes they overreact, sometimes they do not react at all.
But the insight is based on general knowledge from the past and own experience of the institution and people working at the institution. In general, institution protect the system they operate in.
They are pretty similar to our immune systems. It is also built based on genetic and acquired experience, how to fight diseases and keep your host alive. It also sometimes misfires and sometimes under react.
Also, animals with immune system which often fails, do not survive and extinct. The same goes for a system with weak institutions which do not do their job well. The system crashes and a new system with new or modified institutions replaces them (we could call it evolution and mutations).
The interesting thing is, that we can also suppress our immune system now using medicine if it fires too much. Sometimes it helps, but it can also kill us if we over do it or suppress the system when not needed (e.g. consuming alcohol when sick).
The same thing at work we can see with institution. The state attack them (media, universities etc.). We cut funds. People stop trusting them and listening to their advice.
If it is because they really are doing more harm than not, it is good. But if we suppress the immune system when it is critically needed, it might kill us.
Are we now killing our systematic immune system by attacking almost all important institutions at the same time?