Thoughts on our circumstances...: Gun Violence is a Public Health Emergency?

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Gun Violence is a Public Health Emergency?

By Vicky Davis | August 28, 2022

A couple of days ago, Casey Whalen received a response to a FOIA request to the City of Coeur d'Alene. On page 494 of 706 page response, there is an email invitation to city officials from the Council on Foreign Relations. The name of the webinar is Gun Violence, Public Health, and the Safer Communities Act. The invitation was from Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President of National Programs and Outreach for State and Local Officials. The two invited speakers are:

Vin Gupta, affiliate assistant professor of health metrics at the University of Washington Jonas Oransky, legal director for Everytown for Gun Safety

Significant excerpts:

Gupta and Oransky "will discuss gun-related deaths as a public health problem, approaches to preventing firearm related-deaths in the United States and abroad, and the recently passed Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and specific provisions concerning states and localities. . . [Note: read past the renaming of post offices.]

As background, you may wish to review Dr. Gupta's article on thinkglobalhealth.org, The Global Experience of Gun Control and Everytown for Gun Safety‘s factsheet, After a Landmark Federal Law, What's Next for Gun Safety in the States?

The webinar was found on the CFR youtube account and a transcript was found on the CFR website:

Almost the first thing out of Gupta's mouth:

Gun violence is a public health emergency. This is—this is an issue that I know has been politicized, that is obviously controversial. And so I want to acknowledge that up front . . . But let me try to frame this with some facts here that I think are incontrovertible. And I say this as an ICU physician that has seen what gun violence does to the human body, both as a civilian in civilian hospitals in the U.S. and also as a deployable doc that has seen what assault weapons do to the human body, to our deployed soldiers . . . I do as a critical care or transport physician for the Air Force and try to save their life and transport them back home.

So what's the problem with this besides the fact that gun violence is a law enforcement problem and NOT a public health issue?

For starters, the Public Health Service is a branch of the MILITARY. Like all our military services, they are under civilian leadership but that changes nothing. Public Health is MILITARY.

"The Surgeon General is nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and serves a four-year term of office. The Office of the Surgeon General is part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."

The Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy is the MILITARY leader of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corp.

History of the Public Health Service.

A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government, Public Health Service, John L. Parascandola, 1998

The newly emerging science of bacteriology was just beginning to make its impact felt on medicine in the late nineteenth century (e.g., by aiding in the diagnosis of infectious diseases). In 1887 the Service established a bacteriological laboratory at the Marine Hospital at Staten Island. Originally concerned mainly with practical problems related to the diagnosis of disease, the Hygienic Laboratory, as it was called, was later moved to Washington, D.C., and became a center for biomedical research, eventually known as the National Institutes of Health.

Under the New Deal PHS became more involved in the broader health concerns of the nation. The Social Security Act of 1935 provided PHS with the funds and the authority to build a system of state and local health departments, an activity that it had already been doing to some extent on an informal basis. Under this legislation the Service provided grants to states to stimulate the development of health services, train public health workers, and undertake research on health problems. These programs were to be aided by the Federal government but run at the state and local level, joining the various government units in a public health partnership.

. . . Another legacy of World War II grew out of a wartime program of PHS to control malaria in areas around military camps and maneuver areas in the United States, most of which were established in the South. Over the course of the war, the Malaria Control In War Areas program, based in Atlanta, expanded its responsibilities to include the control of other communicable diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, and typhus. By the end of the war, the program had demonstrated its value in the control of infectious disease so successfully that it was converted in 1946 to the Communicable Disease Center (CDC). The mission of CDC continued to expand over the next half century, going beyond the bounds of infectious disease to include areas such as nutrition, chronic disease, and occupational and environmental health. To reflect this broader scope of the institution, its name was changed to the Center for Disease Control in 1970. It received its current designation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (but retaining the acronym CDC), in 1992.

U.S. Public Health Service Commission Corps – History and Timeline

2006 (and beyond)—The Commissioned Corps continues to fulfill its mission to protect and promote the public health of our Nation. With more than 6,000 active-duty officers, the Corps is working both nationally and internationally to create a global world free of preventable disease, sickness, and suffering.

So, to state it definitively, the Public Health System is military – just like the Army, the Navy, the Marines and the Airforce. They are embedded within a civilian agency of government – Health & Human Services. Not all the Public Health System people you see will be military. Contractors are hired to work for the Public Health System – but the leadership is military.

Last week, Steve Bannon gave an overview of the scamdemic. One of his guests was Dr. Harvey Risch, Harvard University on and he confirmed the report that the Public Health System is MILITARY.

Please go to Technocratic Tyranny to read more.

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All this makes perfect sense considering that since the public health system is the MILITARY, Anthony Fauci worked for the Pentagon. Listen to this discussion how the Pentagon put the blame for Covid on China. This explains above in the republished material why Steve Bannon continues to hammer China for Covid.