Do You Need to See the Doctor?

In the new abnormal, I describe how what I call the biomedical security state has been redefining other issues as public health issues. And there's a couple of recent examples that are very simple and easy to understand. Climate change has been redefined from primarily an ecological or an environmental issue to a public health issue. Now we have serious proposals from Ivy League academics,. from politicians who are in positions of power to use things like rolling lockdowns to deal with the climate crisis or toDeal with the energy crisis. We've developed a model of governance that relies on one declared emergency to the next. COVID demonstrated that the declaration of a public health emergency is the most efficient way to engage

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