Talk:Public Health

Public Health

What does the phrase public health mean in the minds of those who hear it?

"Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease", prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities and individuals." Wikipedia

In this definition there is no mention of the government and what has become known as a "Public Health Service" like the CDC or even even a public institution like the first board of health established in Boston in 1799 naming the famous Paul Revere as the first health officer.

A CDC definition recites that "Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations."

In this definition we can see what is missing may be more defining that what is stated. Where is "improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities and individuals."

Overall, public health should be concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. The smallest unit of society is the individual but institutionally that would be the family.

Doctors and nurses, who focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured but that would make them the most important source for information to determine the pulse of public health. Public health should be the concern of all the members of society but the means by which society pursues that goal of a common good health should be born of compassion for rather than control of the individual and their families.

Public Health professionals may try to prevent problems from happening or recurring through implementing educational programs, recommending policies, administering services and conducting research but without compassion and humility of service to others they may become blinded to the point of causing more injuries than if they did nothing.

Modern public health services through government have often become political and work "to limit health disparities. A large part of public health is promoting healthcare equity, quality and accessibility."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims to be the nation’s leading public health agency, dedicated to saving lives and protecting the health of Americans but has its political agenda clouded its vision?

Does the CDC keep "America secure by controlling disease outbreaks; making sure food and water are safe; helping people avoid leading causes of death such as heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes; and working globally to reduce threats to the nation’s health."

History

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/ph/publichealthhistory/publichealthhistory8.html

The 1700s 1798 - Congress passes the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen and authorizes formation of the US Marine Hospital Service (MHS), which was the forerunner of the Public Health Service. Seamen often became ill while at sea and often were unable to find adequate health care in port cities. Their health was viewed as essential to the developing country, and a network of marine hospitals, mainly in port cities, was established by Congress in 1798 to care for sick and disabled seamen. Seamen were taxed 20 cents a month in order to raise funds to pay physicians and support the network of hospitals. This tax was abolished in 1884. From 1884 to 1906 funds were raised by a levy on merchant ships, and after 1906 funds were allocated by the US Congress. 1799 - Castle Island in Boston Harbor (pictured below) was chosen as the temporary site for the first marine hospital. Dr. Thomas Welsh, a Harvard College graduate and participant in the Revolutionary War battles at Lexington and Bunker Hill, was appointed as the physician in charge.

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/ph/publichealthhistory/publichealthhistory8.html

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alexis+de+tocqueville+public+health&va=b&t=hc&ia=web

In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, argued that the nation as an ordered republic rested not upon it's government but upon a firm domestic foundation and praised the well-ordered home life of its citizens. He offered us a scholarly examination of the proper meaning and scope of equality and freedom and how they might be preserved and combined with family and community.

https://www.heritage.org/node/20934195/print-display

We are all too familiar with the decline of the American family and its associated phenomena: divorce, deadbeat dads, female-headed households, promiscuity, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, and addiction. The list of pathologies is long, and the statistics are grim. It was not always thus.

famous visitor to the United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, praised the well-ordered home life of its citizens. Further, in his great work Democracy in America, he argued that the nation’s republican political order rested upon this firm domestic foundation.

Tocqueville follows in a long tradition of political thinkers—from Plato to Rousseau, from Aristotle to Montesquieu—who have been attentive to the links between the domestic and political realms. Understanding these connections involves an inquiry into mœurs (or “mores”), an elusive term that Tocqueville initially defines as “habits of the heart.”1 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. and ed. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 275.

Although he goes on to indicate that he will give the term a more capacious meaning encompassing “habits of the mind” as well as the heart, the core of his inquiry remains with sentiments and “mores properly so-called.”2 Ibid.

Their importance cannot be overestimated: Based on what he had seen of the depravity of Europe, Tocqueville ventured to pronounce that “almost all the disorders of society are born around the domestic hearth, not far from the nuptial bed.”3 Ibid., p. 279.

[T]he character of Anglo-American civilization…is the product (and this point of departure ought constantly to be present in one’s thinking) of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war with each other, but which, in America, they have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously. I mean to speak of the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom.12 Ibid., p. 43 (emphasis in original).

Quarantine and Isolation

The use of quarantine as a public health measure dates back to the 14th century when the Black Death ravaged Italy and the rest of Europe. Quarantine comes from the Italian quarantena, meaning forty-day period.

Tocqueville does not hide the fact that this feminine denial of the thoroughgoing application of equality involves a significant measure of self-sacrifice; indeed, he highlights the sacrifice as part of the American woman’s pride.

Tocqueville does not hide the fact that this feminine denial of the thoroughgoing application of equality involves a significant measure of self-sacrifice; indeed, he highlights the sacrifice as part of the American woman’s pride. Yet there are certain advantages to what seems a relinquishment. From their privileged position within their domestic confinement, women govern the mores of the nation, and Tocqueville is emphatic that mores maintain the constitution and laws.79 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 295.

Although the democratic principle of equality renders wives equal to husbands, Americans nonetheless avoid the disintegrative effects of radical equality by a special understanding of sexual equality that enshrines sexual differences. Instead of a fully individualistic ideal (which yields “weak men and disreputable women”), they opt for complementary roles and complementary virtues in a common enterprise, thereby acknowledging human limits to self-sufficiency. Heterogeneity is the foundation for strong families and, in turn, strong communities.

Informed consent

Not only have societies or those who want to rule them embraced censorship they work together to keep you from having all the facts. With their chants of hate speech they oppress all open conversations. Their lockdowns and social distancing, moratoriums on gathering, censorship on social media, shadow banning stories that expose corruption or abuse have all divide the people to secure a false narrative. Dividing the people is a primary agenda for all despots. This is the way of the tyrant.

‘Equality’ is a contested concept: “People who praise it or disparage it disagree about what they are praising or disparaging” Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality. By Ronald Dworkin

Care for public health by the state certainly weakens the people making them more a subject and a slave for several reasons

Dr Shiva exposes the enemies of the people, their freedom, and free speech in America and their collusion with both left and right leaders in government.

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai on "Government With Big Tech Destroys Free Speech" at the Mike Lindell Cyber Symposium -

https://rumble.com/vl151q-mike-lindell-cyber-symposium-dr.-shiva-ayyadurai-government-with-big-tech-d.html

He gets going around 14 minutes exposing in court a true conspiracy against the people and shut down free flow of information.

Dr Shiva says:

"The real problem of Public Health."

"Americans have become fat, dumb, and happy."

The answer "is not cursing at the darkness but we need to become the light".

"The way to go forward from here is a bottoms up movement."

The only way out, he says is, is a bottom up movement. The truth is Jesus knew that better than most. That is why Christ commanded His called out disciples to organize the people into groups of tens who were willing to network together in thousands before there would be any loaves and fishes.

All people who seek liberty under God need to sit down in the tens, hundreds, and thousands because that is what Jesus commanded and it is the only practical way of establishing a bottoms up movement to stand against a common enemy of the truth which is what sets you free.

Without the movement away from the covetous practices of the world there is no way out.

We need to create the bands of a free society which a sincere and loving approach to the care of one another. When America was great it was not a result of government. Nor was it by freedom alone, but the acceptance of a moral responsibility and that was found in the family undivided.

Without healthy families there cannot be a healthy society. In a free society families bind themselves with trust and hope in free assemblies of choice and charity.

This was done by the people through free associations, through the freedom of faith, hope, and charity instead of force, fear, and fealty.

If you understand what the word religion use to mean we could also understand that every bottoms up movement must include the taking back of the responsibility of Public Health which is a duty to God and our fellowman.

Moses and Jesus said we were to love our neighbor as ourselves. The told us not to engage in covetous practices or seek the rewards of unrighteousness through men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other.

This can only be done through through what use to be called the practice of Pure Religion.

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In "The World Under God’s Law, The Church Under God’s Law", Professor Rushdoony, (Dr. R.J.) describe the congregations Paul was setting up, "To this day, at least among the Jews, all it takes to form a synagog is ten elders! Ten men, rather. They constitute enough for one ruler, and without any rabbii called they constitute a synagog and the elder who was chosen by the ten heads of household conduct the services. That’s the way it was. "

"The apostles as they went out established, Paul for example, church after church in one place after another and he appointed and ordained elders, and he moved on. Did the services stop when left? No, they continued. The elder carried on the services, or the elders, if there were twenty families, there would be two elders; thirty families, three elders. Then these elders who would be trained by the apostles, Peter or Paul, whoever went out, would then carry on services around so that their work would be extended. And this is how the missionary work of the church went on. You will recall from the book of Acts that the apostles hit the cities, they established churches there. Those churches, the elders thereof, would go out into the surrounding countryside to the smaller communities and villages and establish congregations there. [0:11:46]"

The pattern is true but the use of the term elder is incorrect. While elders were appointed to serve the people it is not an office of the Church See Elder

Ruth 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

There is no difference in the canons of Christ’s kingdom “at hand” and the Kingdom of God that Moses tried to teach the people. The Levites were servants of the congregations of men. They belonged to God as his bondservants with no inheritance. Each one served ten families, who chose them as ministers, and to whom were tithed in accordance to their service.

The Church called out by Christ did the same as that earlier Church in the wilderness called out by Moses. They taught a kingdom of God organized by congregation of tens.

“And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)” Acts 1:15

Here, 12 apostles and 120 families were the beginning foundation of the Christian Church. The apostles were bondservants appointed by Christ to minister to the congregation of the people. In order to discern exactly how all this worked together for good, we must explore those ancient times.

Even as late as the 9th and 10th century, among the Lombard kings there was something called Deans connected to ten families. The word originated from the Latin “decanus”, which was a military term of the Romans. Decurius was also used by early writers. This included the Greek deka and dekate, meaning ten or tithe.

The term was used to described those men performing functions of the secular clergy. This term was used by what we might call ministers of the early ecclesiastical Church. That clergy was much different in their position to authority and function than those now held in what we have come to believe is the Church. They held that office which included a position in their judicial system chosen from the bottom up. Some have tried to assert that a Dean was in authority over those ten families, but the terms used to describe the office clearly establish it as a subordinate position with respect and service to the people. It was a part of their system of governance, but its leaders were titular.

Terms like decurions signified those who served ten deans. As the network of tens, fifties, and hundreds grew, there was a need for assistance like the heralds of the kings and the singers and Nethinims of the Levites who performed important functions of keeping the people and ministers informed. The chore pisco pus was an assistant to the overseer or Bishop to keep the communion between the congregation effectual. Over the centuries, this special communications officer for the government of the people was degenerated into the director of the choir.

The communion of the first-century Church was substantive, filling the true physical and spiritual needs of the people. Those who received Christ’s baptism were cast out of one system of authoritarian government of the Pharisees and entered a government of faith, hope, and charity under the perfect law of liberty. Christians depended upon the freewill charity of each other, not the entitlements of Rome or the synagogue of Satan.

“Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.” 1 Corinthians 10:21

According to Garcillasso de Vega an ancient Inca historian, Peru was divided into small districts containing ten families each which registered under a magistrate who had authority to decide little differences and punish petty crimes. Five of these groups of tens composed a higher class or fifty families and two of these fifties composed a hundred. Finally, ten hundreds composed a larger group of a thousand families. Moses did something similar but without centralizing power over the people that might subjugate them.

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Like any good capitalist grey squirrel, I can go out in the woods and collect nuts for the winter and bring them back to my borough. The pile of nuts is an extension of my labor spent over the summer so that I and my family will not starve.

If red squirrels try to come in and grab my nuts for themselves after I spent all summer gathering them for winter that would not be "proper or right". That would be a violation of my "property rights".

I do not need a government to protect my property.

But if there are a lot of "red comrade squirrels" I may call my brother squirrels and we may defend our nuts from the red menace.

We are still anarchist and capitalist squirrels because we have no rulers but only brothers.

There have been lots of governments without rulers but it takes a special kind of squirrel. They have to care about their neighbor's nuts as much as they care about their own. http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Tens

See http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Politics of Health