The assumption that you could ever treat such a crisis as "apolitical" requires the existing power structures to not be designed to literally kill off whole segments of the population (poor people, disabled people, old people, immigrants, anyone defined by capitalism as "burdens").

It's political because they won't act (like they haven't so far) until it threatens the economy they depend on to maintain their power and/or rich households, at which point their solutions will only ever be in defence and service of those things, not the general population.

So sure, in utopia it wouldn't be political and the obvious thing would be that we help society and everyone in it, but that's not the reality we live in, and those in power aren't going to just put their entire ethos to one side to do the right thing, and expecting them to, at this point in time, and especially fresh out of a pandemic that isn't actually over, is extremely naive, at best.

Public health cannot help but be a political matter, I don't see how it could be otherwise.

Unless you tent and fumigate the entirety of Paris or heat treat it, meaning bringing the temperature of Paris to ~118° for 90 minutes, the other options are...middling in effectiveness.

Also, neither of those treatments keep bedbugs from reinfesting a second after the treatment concludes. (There are no treatments that do. Zero. Ziltch.) And since bedbugs are hitchhikers that can also hide in the tiniest of cracks and crevices, such as fitting between your wall and socket cover, total and permanent eradication is unlikely. The only possibility is if a bait treatment similar to those used for roaches that alters the DNA of the next generation so they can't reproduce is created and actually attracts bedbugs more than a nice blood filled human.

In dense population centers like Paris total elimination at this point in time is incredibly unlikely. They could with continuous effective treatments bring it under a semblance of control but they will always be there. The Olympics will almost certainly exacerbate the issue.

I'm not sure how well turning a public health problem into a political issue

How is it even possible for a public health problem to not be a political issue?

I'm not sure how well turning a public health problem into a political issue will work out.

keep that pesky politics out of the public health crises!

Our national Tucker Carlson tried to pin it on immigrants. So, I'd say people like him before our politicians.

Row (pronounced like wow) is another word for argument or disagreement. It's most commonly used in the UK. A "political row" just means politicians are bickering with each other.

in westminster parliamentary procedure, when there is a disagreement the two partisan groups get together and competitively row in a race up the Thames, winner taking the victorious position on the matter.

It's a UK English thing, a row is a fight, they would describe the US Congress fighting over the shutdown as a row.

I'll be honest, there are a lot of things I personally don't deal with properly until I'm expecting company. But bedbugs should take priority 100% of the time.

What do you mean? Would they try to dust off their zero covid policy?

"Evil CEE CEE PEE is trying to genocide bedbugs! Free bedbugs, revolution of our times!"

You guys gotta get over your victim complex.

When did you wake up and choose to be evil?

Does this work for ducks too