The much murk, gloom and unhealthy miasma cloistering our governance processes.

From Other People's Money and How Bankers Use It by Louis D. Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice Brandeis (1916-1939).  Chapter 5.  The original version of the chapter was published in Harper's Weekly in 1913.  

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. 

A nice trilogy - Electric light, Sunlight, and Publicity to maintain the health of the body politic.   We are short on all three right now.  The Covid-19 fiasco has revealed just how much murk, gloom and unhealthy miasma there is cloistering our governance processes.