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Oi! Public Health - you had just one job..... You had one job, Public Health……and fucked it up. Because whilst your leading lights, your trained epidemiologists, front line troops such as Martin (I can’t bring myself to call him Professor) McKee were off and away with the fairies of self obsessed fantasy battling the non-contagious e-cigarette epidemic, scarlet fever has gained a foothold in the hallowed first world turf of United Kingdomshire.You had one job and it really wasn’t that tough was it……because let’s face it, public health, it wasn’t really that long ago that you were removing the handles from public water pumps to prevent the spread of cholera. Proper, at the coal face, sleeves rolled up public health in action. Preserving the health of the public in the face of communicable diseases. Who can reasonably argue against such a laudable aim? Not me, for one. Because, public health, let’s face facts here. That was your function wasn’t it? To prevent and/ or control the progression of communicable diseases through our communities. Please, if I’m wrong… feel free to correct me.So if you only had one job……exactly how did you fuck it up so royally? Why am I reading reports of scarlet fever in first world communities whilst at the same time I’m reading insane diatribes from so-called luminaries demonizing non-communicable conditions such as smoking? Why am I seeing epidemiologists (such as McKee) on my TV screen pontificating upon marketing?Cue insane foil-hat theory……you don’t care about health at all do you, public health? You care about politics, you care about control. You dream of an extreme left wing über-stadt where the state is mother and father and the mere worker bees are spared the desperate agony of choice. Excuse me if I’m speaking out of turn, but this really doesn’t feel funky to me. Shouldn’t you guys be out pulling the handles off water pumps rather than bothering me in the privacy of my own home?How did you get it so wrong?That’s a kind of rhetorical question. We all know how you got it wrong, really. You got it wrong when you stopped being about health and started being about careers. Lucrative, politically and ideologically driven careers. Careers such as those of McKee and Hastings. Control crazed pseudo-socialists (yes, pseudo; no genuine socialist would pursue a path so disingenuous) who can only see the light of the adoration of their similarly disaffected peers at the end of their tunnel (vision).You really can’t leave us alone can you?This is no longer about health. If public health were REALLY, and TRULY about health… we would not be seeing scarlet fever in the inner cities of first world nations. This stopped being about health the moment that somebody, way back, decided that there was a career to be made from targeting the behavior of their peers. And yes, I can pretty much pinpoint when that happened. And yes, we shall… and I mean we really will be… coming back to that in a future post. Meanwhile… this is for you. And thanks for the scarlet fever. You incompetent assholes.
QuoteOi! Public Health - you had just one job..... You had one job, Public Health……and fucked it up. Because whilst your leading lights, your trained epidemiologists, front line troops such as Martin (I can’t bring myself to call him Professor) McKee were off and away with the fairies of self obsessed fantasy battling the non-contagious e-cigarette epidemic, scarlet fever has gained a foothold in the hallowed first world turf of United Kingdomshire.You had one job and it really wasn’t that tough was it……because let’s face it, public health, it wasn’t really that long ago that you were removing the handles from public water pumps to prevent the spread of cholera. Proper, at the coal face, sleeves rolled up public health in action. Preserving the health of the public in the face of communicable diseases. Who can reasonably argue against such a laudable aim? Not me, for one. Because, public health, let’s face facts here. That was your function wasn’t it? To prevent and/ or control the progression of communicable diseases through our communities. Please, if I’m wrong… feel free to correct me.So if you only had one job……exactly how did you fuck it up so royally? Why am I reading reports of scarlet fever in first world communities whilst at the same time I’m reading insane diatribes from so-called luminaries demonizing non-communicable conditions such as smoking? Why am I seeing epidemiologists (such as McKee) on my TV screen pontificating upon marketing?Cue insane foil-hat theory……you don’t care about health at all do you, public health? You care about politics, you care about control. You dream of an extreme left wing über-stadt where the state is mother and father and the mere worker bees are spared the desperate agony of choice. Excuse me if I’m speaking out of turn, but this really doesn’t feel funky to me. Shouldn’t you guys be out pulling the handles off water pumps rather than bothering me in the privacy of my own home?How did you get it so wrong?That’s a kind of rhetorical question. We all know how you got it wrong, really. You got it wrong when you stopped being about health and started being about careers. Lucrative, politically and ideologically driven careers. Careers such as those of McKee and Hastings. Control crazed pseudo-socialists (yes, pseudo; no genuine socialist would pursue a path so disingenuous) who can only see the light of the adoration of their similarly disaffected peers at the end of their tunnel (vision).You really can’t leave us alone can you?This is no longer about health. If public health were REALLY, and TRULY about health… we would not be seeing scarlet fever in the inner cities of first world nations. This stopped being about health the moment that somebody, way back, decided that there was a career to be made from targeting the behavior of their peers. And yes, I can pretty much pinpoint when that happened. And yes, we shall… and I mean we really will be… coming back to that in a future post. Meanwhile… this is for you. And thanks for the scarlet fever. You incompetent assholes.Clicky.... Delightful, just delightful.....
I got scarlet fever about 20 years ago. Had to be in quarantine. All my hair, fingernails and toenails fell out I got photographed for a medical text book I caught it from a library book Made the national press
Quote from: Nick (GC First Class) on March 13, 2014, 07:07:49 PMI got scarlet fever about 20 years ago. Had to be in quarantine. All my hair, fingernails and toenails fell out I got photographed for a medical text book I caught it from a library book Made the national press Gone with the wind?
