Author: Chloe Humbert

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Political abuse of psychiatry.

Authoritarians always target mentally disabled people as low hanging fruit, and the definition of mental disability is always flexible. People are rightfully upset about the Minnesota bill by state lawmakers to try to dictate a medical diagnosis of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” toward any Republican detractors. And I’d like to point out that this slide toward political […]

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Image includes a screenshot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, includes a black and white photo portrait of Warren G Harding in a business suit with white hair, his elbow on a table, his hand against his cheek with a finger pointing up, his expression is stern. The text from Wikipedia reads quote "Return to normalcy" unquote was a campaign slogan used by Warren G. Harding during the 1920 United States presidential election. Harding would go on to win the election with 60.4% of the popular vote. 1920 election. In a speech delivered on May 14, 1920, Harding proclaimed that America needed "not nostrums, but normalcy". Two months later, during a homecoming speech, Harding reaffirmed his endorsement of "normal times and a return to normalcy." World War I and the Spanish flu had upended life, and Harding said that it altered the perspective of humanity. He argued that the solution was to seek normalcy by restoring life to how it was before the war. Harding's conception of normalcy for the 1920s included deregulation, civic (text cut off) Another screenshot is a graph labeled American Journal of Public Health charts 3 surge waves of influenza and pneumonia mortality through the 1920s, in 1922, 1923, and 1926. A caption on top says Infectious disease does not respect political campaigns nor PR campaigns. A caption on the bottom reads Through the 1920s, the Sanitarians recognized that the problem continued and was in need of solutions and action, including political action, and that call to action written by JAMES A. TOBEY, was published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1928 PMC1580932.
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Return to Normalcy is not progress anyway.

I hope we all realize by now that nothing will ever be the same again, there’s no normal to return to, and let’s face it normal was never all it was cracked up to be. On the anniversary of the pandemic declaration by the WHO, I’m reflecting on the fact that nothing has really ever […]

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There is no real substitute for case surveillance.

Cases in case surveillance means a count of actual diagnosed cases of a disease. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) What is Case Surveillance? Case surveillance is foundational to public health practice. It helps us to understand diseases and their spread and determine appropriate actions to control outbreaks. Case surveillance occurs each time public health […]

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