What’s the REAL Threat to Public Health?
What’s the REAL Threat to Public Health? by Jeff Thompson America seems to have forgotten what the term ‘public health’ truly means. Numerous examples of counties/cities nationwide have slapped the label of ‘threat to public health’ onto just about anything imaginable. For example: Racism? Yep, we can make that a public health issue. The CDC will even defend such a decision, saying that racism is dangerous to the public’s health (I wonder how they feel about communism). [source] We don’t view crime as a public health issue. Nope. Guns are the problem. We need to label them as a public health threat as well. [source] Masculinity? Yeah, we can make that a public health threat too. [source] Climate change? Why, yes! Absolutely! [source] Misinformation? Yep. [ source 1 – source 2 ] While you can undoubtedly see how all of this is ridiculous, let me point out the true public health threat that America has not come to terms with yet....