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Dave Bowering's avatar

Well seen Dr Trozzi. I worked as a Medical Health Officer for many years, practising what we csalled Community Medicine where the goal was to strengthen individual and community resilience, We worked on improving conditions related to the social and economic determinants of health; the upstream conditions that played out as disease and susceptibility to disease downstream . It was a wonderful and rewarding career but a distinct shift happened after 2009 following the H1N1 influenza "pandemic" which in many ways was a practise run for Covid. A group of communicable disease fundamentalists that I laughingly called the "Virus of the Month Club" began to receive all of the funding . "Centers of Excellence" in virology and vaccine technology were established across the country and within a very short time public health became synonymous with the vaccine industry and the development and promotion of their products. By the time Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tam and the others were installed as public health leaders, the coup had been completed. The rest is tragic history. Instead of providing perspectrive and balance at a time when the world most urgently needed it, public health itself became the engine of fear which is the most deadly and also the most highly communicable disease of all.

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Priscilla Schwartz's avatar

Alberta has just put up a firewall to ALLOW Albertans to decide whether we want to follow any EDICTS from WHO or any other RULING CLASSES from around the world. I hope it sticks. I hope it works.

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