Dr. Tom Woods has written another post on the insanity within our government regarding public health issues.
You would think, if we were dealing with normal people, that what we laughingly call our “public health” establishment would have offered a few apologies here and there, or at least indicated they had a little humility, after the disaster of the past two years.
After all, Anthony Fauci told us that there would be a clear difference in outcomes between places that implemented the so-called mitigation measures vigorously, and places that did not.
Well, there wasn’t. So Fauci ruined people’s lives, businesses, health, serenity, and just about everything else a normal human being cherishes, and it made no noticeable difference at all.
I personally think the absurdity and wickedness of the past two years can be summed up in a single chart, a chart I showed you just days ago but which really says it all:
If Florida, which was attacked nonstop by our “public health” bureaucracy for not following the rules, winds up more than halfway down the list of states in terms of age-adjusted mortality, rather than being at least in the top five, then it was all for naught.
No matter what people try to say to you, just hammer home at that. Age-adjusted Covid mortality (the only figure that matters) reveals no discernible difference between the follow-Fauci places and the be-reasonable places.
(Not to mention the atrocious outcome of hard-lockdown Peru. Had Peru gotten its terrible results after taking a laissez-faire approach you can be certain that we’d never hear the end of it. Instead, silence.)
One could also point out the absolutely insane results in countries in Europe and elsewhere who not only had hard lockdowns and mandatory social mitigation practices but also mandated multiple doses of the so-called vaccines. How did that work out?
Countries with the highest jab rates are seeing COVID spreading like wildfire. Chronic COVID has also become a public health item in these countries. Wasn’t the vaccine supposed to provide “herd immunity?”
At any rate, after that performance the public health establishment is now clamoring for more power.
The New York Times reports that a panel of so-called “health experts” is calling for “an overhaul of the U.S. public health system that would expand the role of the federal government, giving Washington the authority to set minimum health standards and coordinate a patchwork of nearly 3,000 agencies.”
They don’t like the decentralized approach that exists in the United States with its federal system and states that can make their own decisions.
Former CDC director Julie L. Gerberding, who served under George W. Bush, said the past two years had “taught us that we have to have a coordinated, integrated public health network that functions — and the only way that we can bring that together is by having a national approach.”
What they are really saying here is that they need more power to coerce people into doing what they want without any recourse. This would just further limit the liberties that all Americans enjoy and which are being whittled away one by one. Thank God that appears that we have a Supreme Court that believes their job is to interpret the law and not make it.
The one-size fits all approach seen in the recent COVID “pandemic” shows just how dangerous that can be. Hundreds of thousands of people died who did not have to due to the suppression of effective treatments by the health care elite in our Federal government.
One of the advantages of a system where each state can set its own agenda is that multiple different approaches can winnow out those that do not work and push to the top those that do.
The panel likewise calls for the creation of an Undersecretary of Public Health within the existing Department of Health and Human Services. It would coordinate the efforts of federal agencies that deal with public health, and could set minimum health standards for the states.
So the people who sat back and did nothing while Michelle Obama forced “low fat” lunches — as if no progress had been made in our understanding of human nourishment since 1977 — on hapless schoolchildren are going to set minimum health standards for the states.
I vote no on that.
I vote no as well.