Ensuring Next Public Health Crisis Is as Lethal as Possible
Insofar as the world is not currently beset with an epidemic like COVID-19, the subject of people’s “rights” to flout health regulations is not a present-day issue in our daily news cycles. That’s a good thing, but it would be foolish to think it’s going to last forever.
It’s apparent that Americans, under this new Trump administration, are even more deeply rooted in their anti-scientific beliefs than they ever were before. As evidence I cite that the new Secretary of Health and Human Services is an anti-vaxxer, and that the federal government is working hard dismantling the Centers for Disease Control.
Here’s an article from the Economic Policy Institute called “Trump’s gutting of public health institutions is setting the stage for our next crisis” that begins:
The Trump administration is gutting our national public health infrastructure in real time, setting the stage for the next public health crisis. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), tasked with “protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to protect themselves,” is set to see a reduction in staff from 82,000 to 62,000 (a decrease of almost 25%) alongside major cuts to spending on contracts.
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