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Public Health Is Screwed
There is no other way for me to describe what is going on around the country… And around the world.
About 99.99999% of us who went to school to learn about science in general, and the slew of biological sciences in particular, did so because we wanted to make the world a better place. Many of us gave up lucrative deals with big companies who wanted our talents for data analysis, problem solving, and communications; and instead went to work in public health. I mean “public” public health, as in a health department somewhere.
We could have been in a nice office at some big pharmaceutical company, making six figures a year, but we had this nagging feeling that our talents would be best used by serving humanity. So we did… Then the COVID-19 pandemic rolled around. Now into its third year, the pandemic has taken millions of lives around the world, and over 900,000 deaths in the United States.
We tried, but the anti-science mob are too much!
In our attempts to keep those numbers as low as possible, we looked to the sciences of infectious disease dynamics, immunology, epidemiology, sociology and medicine to come up with the best ways to keep people from dying. We also aimed to keep people from getting sick, so they wouldn’t get people…
