Plague Doctors vs Public Health
“Be a physician, Faustus. Heap up gold,And be eternized for some wondrous cure..The end of physic is our bodies’ health.Why Faustus, hast thou not attained that end?Is not thy common talk found aphorisms.Are not thy bills hung up as monuments,Whereby whole cities have escaped the plagueand thousand desp’rate maladies been eased?Yet are thou still but Faustus, and a man.”Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, 1616
Plague Doctors have held absolute powers for centuries, if rarely exercised. When Chinese Communist Party infectious disease enforcers welded positive cases inside their Wuhan apartments, they were emulating Plague Doctor orders to nail infected families inside their residence during Renaissance Times. We like to think those medical specialists held barbaric notions of Contagious Disease pandemics being caused by poisonous miasmas and excess of humours (not funny).
Instead they knew quarantining sick people was essential, while encouraging the healthy wealthy to flee to their country estates where the humours were less miasmic. That these refugees became vectors of infection on their travels wasn’t clear then, although even John Snow, father of epidemiology, essential to Public Health mandates, could only trace London’s cholera epidemic to one water pump.
The Public Health arms of county, state and national government are about health in name only, (like Health Care, which is neither). Infectious Disease has always been their reason for existing. They are not elected, granted hidden, extraordinary emergency powers. Their talking heads and silent bankers have been organizing, attending and reviewing Plandemic War Games for decades, plotting every conceivable option. Great Minds think Alike in Davos 2019. 2020 was Good to Go. All aboard, or shoved overboard.
These government agencies are an obscure opening exposed. Before Covid, they usually hid in the back row of White Coats. Public Health was the red headed stepchild of the Medical Monopoly for most of the 20th century, as Infectious Disease Deaths had decreased by 99% before mass vaccinations. Now they are strutting like a juiced rooster in a henhouse. We are the foxes at the door.
Renaming public health departments as Plague Doctor Dictators is symbolic, not semantic. Health conjures up dust devils of well being, self esteem and civic responsibility. Virtuous Signaling. Instead their irresponsible diktats irrevocably damaged civil society. Abolishing them would be a long term goal, rebranding them a significant blow to their authority. They plan on using it again, after observing results and adjusting tactics this go round.
Changing terminology is a revolutionary act. Medical Treatment is a $4 trillion dollar industry in the untied states, but it isn’t a Health Care System. The War Department isn’t for Defense. Medicine is not Health, only a meandering means to that promised end. Millions are hastily buried along the Medical Monopoly trail, while only survivors preach the word. Vaccine Injuries are an unrecognized slice of Medical Monopoly damage and death. Fringe Minorities will become Leviathan, if enlightened on medical causes of illness and death.