The history of public health is so vital I think to understanding the Covid debacle we're living right now.…

The history of public health is so vital I think to understanding the Covid debacle we're living right now. There's maybe an assumption that the public health practice politicians are now shredding with abandon to try to win votes was a democratic invention. Short 🧵/1 https://t.co/gXatS9P68V

In fact most of the public health practice that our modern populist pollies describe as oppression was developed in the 19th century, in the UK. A time in history when for much of the century, much less than half of the country was even allowed to vote. /2 https://t.co/JkODcJGaNR

The democracy of the time was a close partnership between monarchs and the upper echelons of UK society, seen here playing out in the House of Lords. It was this thin veneer of privilege which created enormously powerful and extensive public health reform. /3 https://t.co/qtj7eXq9C1

Today privilege is dismantling it. Why? Because it's forgotten its origins. The privileged in the 19th century UK invented modern public health because their society was being smashed by uncontrolled infectious disease. Their concern was less for the public than it was for.../4

...the ongoing survival of society itself. Nobody liked streets that were rivers of raw sewage, nor the deaths and stench it created. They needed their workers as much as the privileged need workers today. Unfortunately for us, the intervening time of highly successful.../5

...public health disease control has led to the delusion among today's elites that all of the healthy lives we've lived in their lifetimes happens somehow by magic. They're now engaged in the experiment of driving societies back to the early 19th century, and even earlier. /6

Mass infection and disease is now considered (by them) a normal way to live. Provided hospitals can cope, they've done all that needs doing. For the entire history of public health, this would have been seen as delusional insanity. Until the past 3 years. /7

Uncontrolled disease breaks societies, the gobsmackingly stupid idea of 'living with' pandemic viruses for example is akin to the Monty Python crack suicide squad. They need to remember public health was invented by THEM. Because without it, their societies collapsed. /end