By Joel Salatin I was on a Zoom panel discussion last week to discuss current events. The moderator’s first question was “What should the definition of public health be?”
One panelist ventured forth with her answer: “Access and equity.”
When asked to define that, she was tongue-tied.
In the pregnant pause, I decided to weigh in with my typical hand grenade: “I don’t think public health is a government issue. The government has nothing to do with public health.”
Wow, that set things to blazing… especially since one of the panelists had a career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that font of pandemic …read more
