Every year for three decades, the nation’s vaunted Public Health™ experts have congregated to congratulate themselves on the excellent work they’ve done making America the most chronically ill nation on Earth despite spending more per capita on so-called healthcare than any as well.
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Via STAT News (emphasis added):
For public health agencies across the country, the Trump administration has meant taking blow after destabilizing blow. Covid-19 pandemic dollars were pulled. States like Minnesota and cities like Austin cut jobs that had been federally funded. Research grants were canceled in the name of excising diversity programs.
Against that backdrop, public health experts gathered this week at George Washington University in Washington for an annual event called National Public Health Week, now in its 30th year.
Some might call overseeing a historically unprecedented chronic disease epidemic an abject failure.
The Public Health™ experts call it a smashing success.
The reason their good work is not properly appreciated, you’ll be made to understand, is “disinformation” and “conspiracy theorists.”
Continuing:
“I find it ironic that we are talking about the progress that public health has made, given where we are, given the active work to undo what we did,” said Brian Castrucci, an epidemiologist who is president and CEO of the public-health-focused de Beaumont Foundation. “We’ve wiped out smallpox. We’ve ended disease. We used to invest in science and fund the people who delivered this for us. We were on the path to being the healthiest nation. And now we’re not.”
Castrucci pointed his finger at people in the federal government.
“We advance conspiracy theorists over people who are scientists,” he said. “We have experts silenced and public health workers being demonized for doing their jobs.”
How could they be so wrong?
There’s probably a lot going on here: moral bankruptcy, self-serving denial of reality, hubris stoked by unending praise from the establishment media and permanent ruling class.
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Then, of course, there’s the all-powerful phenomenon of groupthink:
A mode of thinking people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action. Groupthink refers to a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment that results from in-group pressures.
- Irving Janis, Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
In other words, these people belong to a cult — but not like a relatively harmless cult of a bunch of loons out in a compound somewhere in Waco who aren’t harming anyone but themselves, but ones with access to biolabs engineering viruses later to be released and then used as a pretext for the assumption of totalitarian control that would otherwise be impossible to achieve in a free Western society without the terror that they themselves created.
Continuing:
Castrucci… said the profession had to be more personal and more political…
That means fighting back when the enemy is misinformation (the spread of incorrect claims) and disinformation (the intentional dissemination of falsehoods to achieve an economic or political goal), yet meeting people where they are. And “with the information they’re ready to hear and the ways they’re ready to hear and the ways they’re ready to hear it from the sources they trust,” said Julia Daisy Fraustino, director of the Public Interest Communication Research Laboratory at West Virginia University.
Again, with this guy claiming the problem is that public health isn’t politicized enough, it’s nearly inconceivable to imagine these people getting the diagnosis more wrong.
Alas, Castrucci will likely continue failing upwards.
If he keeps it up, he might be the next Democratic administration’s surgeon general.
