Leaders and policy makers around the world have combined the concepts of health and security in a way where the concept of security dominates the definition of public health. This means that concerns about human well-being have transformed into an overriding concern about defense against threats to national and global security. Dealing with disease, thus, has taken on the sense of fighting a war. Public-health management has taken on the sense of a military operation.
The United States government clearly demonstrated these facts, when the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) became the lead agency overseeing development and distribution of COVID-19 mRNA medical countermeasures against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The DOD's leadership in this public-health mission became possible because the U. S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) forged a special partnership with the DOD, as described by the United States Government Accountability Office's 2022 ... Report to Congressional Addressees: COVID-19 HHS and DOD Transitioned Vaccine Responsibilities to HHS, but Need to Address Outstanding Issues:
The April 2021 memorandum of understanding between HHS and DOD designated DOD as the lead for implementing most vaccine-related initiatives within the CAG, with HHS to provide support.
CAG stands for the HHS-DOD COVID-19 Countermeasures Acceleration Group, originally named Operation Warp Speed. Operation Warp Speed or CAG was the partnership between the U. S. Department of Defense and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services that led to mass deployment of COVID-19 so-called vaccines in the United States.
Military involvement in public-health matters, however, goes even higher up, as plainly stated in the following brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation (a major player in health-policy analysis, research, journalism, and communication), written by
Josh Michaud, Kellie Moss, and Jen Kates (2017). The U.S. Government and Global Health Security [Kaiser Family Foundation Issue Brief], where the authors state:
The National Security Council (NSC) is responsible for overall U.S. strategy and coordinating U.S.work on global health security. Key implementing agencies include USAID, CDC, and DOD.
USAID stands for the United States Agency for International Development, which is an independent agency of the U. S. government, primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
The National Security Council runs out of the office of the President. It is structured as follows:
As can be seen from the above chart, public-health policy can involve the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Ambassador to the United Nations, National Security Advisor, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the U. S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (which implicates climate change as a factor influencing public-health policy-decisions in the name of national security). The militaristic framing of public health, thus, is very clear and linked to any area of interest that the government chooses to categorize as a health-security concern.
The DOD's link to HHS unavoidably encompasses the FDA and the CDC, since both these agencies are sub-agencies of HHS:
As the above chart shows, there is a part of government called the National Biodefense Security Board (NBSB) that reports to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which also feeds another operating agency within HHS called the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). ASPR oversees another division called the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), whose responsibility is to procure and develop medical countermeasures mainly against bioterrorism and emerging diseases. Notice also that the close association between HHS (Health and Human Services) and DOD (Department of Defense) connects the interests of HHS to an agency of DOD called the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose responsibility is to develop emerging technologies (including vaccine technologies) for use by the military. An unmistakable military mindset, thus, permeates the public health philosophy of the United States. This militarized or "securitized" mindset seems to have displaced any focus on optimizing the well-being of individual humans.
Now it is important to understand that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is not strictly a governmental agency, but rather a quasi-governmental agency, funded partly by Congress, partly by direct gifts, and partly by philanthropic foundations, including the CDC Foundation established specifically to accept funds to help support it. Among the foundations that help support the CDC, there is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which channels money into the organization in two ways (directly, and indirectly via the Bloomberg Family Foundation). Among contributors to the CDC Foundation, there is Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, which are intimately tied to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a strong vested financial interest in promoting COVID-19 vaccines and other vaccines, along with Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and many other companies that contribute to the CDC Foundation.
Sustaining a sense of emergency that requires vaccination is in the best financial interests of all these organizations. Consequently, sustaining public consciousness of an emergency helps support these financial interests.
Without a sense of emergency tied to a threat to national security, the demand for vaccines weakens, and the primary financial interests of major contributors are no longer served.
According to Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., editor-in-chief (2020). (Editorial) CDC: Bias and Disturbing Conflicts of Interest, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 25(3):66-69,
The CDC has a long history of bias and troubling conflicts of interest. This history calls into question the scientific validity of recommendations made by the CDC.
During the so-called COVID-19 pandemic, according to Henry Ealy and nine others (2020). COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective, Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law, Volume 2: 4-22, the CDC violated the following laws:
• the IQA [Information Quality Act],
• PRA [Paperwork Reduction Act],
• OMB [Office of Management and Budget] compliance guidelines, and
• Executive Order 12866 [requires proper peer review].
In doing so, the authors state, the CDC has fatally compromised all COVID-19 data and adversely impacted federal, state, and local public health policies regarding COVID-19.
By illegally enacting standards that drastically changed the protocol for listing cause of death, the CDC enabled inflation of COVID-19 deaths to an exaggerated extent that gave the appearance of a gravely serious crisis. The number of deaths subsequently attributed to COVID-19, thus, raised alarm levels to a point that drove government leaders to desperate acts of trying to control a killer virus by whatever means necessary, including rushing a brand new pharmaceutical product to market (the COVID-19 vaccines).
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is supposed to control the quality of medical products that pharmaceutical companies introduce into the health-consumer marketplace, as well as oversee the safety and effectiveness of medical countermeasures for the DOD. The FDA is party to a special agreement (a memorandum of understanding) specifically committing itself to working closely with the DOD to speed up approval of these medical countermeasures for military use. At the same time, the FDA is funded largely by user fees from the companies it regulates, as well as being a stepping stone of sorts for future executives or board members of pharmaceutical companies. In simple terms, this translates into a regulatory mess that easily displaces any honest concern for the well-being of humans, in favor of pursuing profits, career advancement, and loyalty to a militaristic paradigm of public health.
The pervasiveness of the military mindset in public-health management extends beyond the United States. Bio-security as a public-health focus has risen to a top priority in all developed countries of the world. This bio-security focus is championed largely by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), whose approach to public health has increasingly drawn motivation from the United Nations Security Council. According to the ... UN Security-Council website ... :
The Security Council takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression.
When world leaders, therefore, frame disease as a threat to peace, the focus of public health shifts to fighting such a threat like a war. This militaristic, public-health paradigm has clearly taken hold over the entire world, as indicated by formation of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB). As stated on the ... GPMB website:
Co-convened by the Director-General of the World Health Organization and the President of the World Bank Group, the GPMB is comprised of globally-recognised leaders and experts from a wide range of sectors, including medicine, global health, veterinary epidemiology, environment, human rights, economics, law, gender, and development.
The GPMB was established in 2018 as a high-level platform for political advocacy, in recognition of the severe health and economic costs of failing to adequately prepare for and manage disease outbreaks for countries and communities globally.
At the height of the COVID-19 event (called a pandemic), the World Health Organization also co-sponsored another global partnership, called ... ACTA ... , which brought together a number of parties [see chart below] that were all highly invested, either financially or philosophically, in vaccines as the primary bio-defense measure to manage public health:
HHS, FDA, CDC, and DOD, thus, were acting on behalf of the United States by following in lockstep with these organizations, serving as sponsors, promoters, and enforcers of this global, biosecurity, public-health paradigm. Such a global mobilization of power demonstrates the enormous control that the WHO already exercises over polices related to public health. If the WHO and these other organizations can do this once (with COVID-19), then they can do it again, and they can do it for any number of reasons that they qualify as related to public-health. And still looming at the top of this global health-security agenda are vaccines, which supposedly serve as the very best possible choice of a means to insure the health of all nations.
With WHO controlling public-health policies based on bio-security strategies, the pharmaceutical industry becomes an extension of military forces to defend nations and the world from the enemy of germs in a constant war on diseases.
Russell L. Blaylock (2022), in the article, COVID Update: What is the Truth?, Surgical Neurology International, 13(167), sums up the control that pharmaceutical companies exert over medical and scientific journals:
We are now witnessing a growing number of excellent scientific papers, written by top experts in the field, being retracted from major medical and scientific journals weeks, months and even years after publication. A careful review indicates that in far too many instances the authors dared question accepted dogma by the controllers of scientific publications — especially concerning the safety, alternative treatments or efficacy of vaccines. These journals rely on extensive adverting by pharmaceutical companies for their revenue. Several instances have occurred where powerful pharmaceutical companies exerted their influence on owners of these journals to remove articles that in any way question these companies’ products.
Worse still is the actual designing of medical articles for promoting drugs and pharmaceutical products that involve fake studies, so-called ghostwritten articles.
Proven fraudulent “ghostwritten” articles sponsored by pharmaceutical giants have appeared regularly in top clinical journals, such as JAMA, and New England Journal of Medicine — never to be removed despite proven scientific abuse and manipulation of data.
As concerns the information made available to the public, virtually all the media is under the control of these pharmaceutical giants or others who are benefiting from this “pandemic”.
Television media receives the majority of its advertising budget from the international pharmaceutical companies — this creates an irresistible influence to report all concocted studies supporting their vaccines and other so-called treatments.
In 2020 alone the pharmaceutical industries spent 6.56 billion dollars on such advertising. Pharma TV advertising amounted to 4.58 billion, an incredible 75% of their budget.
A ... 2023 lawsuit brought by the Children's Health Defense and others ... directed attention to the fact that, in 2019, a group of the world's largest news publishers established an industry partnership named the Trusted News Initiative (TNI). This large group of publishers collectively promoted widespread COVID-19 vaccination, while demonizing the use all other proven treatments. The Trusted News Initiative (TNI), thus, helped generate hundreds of billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers and other large pharmaceutical companies. These profits, in turn, enabled those vaccine manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies to pay $ billions to TNI publishers for advertising.
By suppressing information (news) that could have prevented hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from new, expensive COVID-19 vaccines, TNI pleased its largest advertisers. It enabled these advertisers to buy even more advertising, further increasing the revenue of TNI publishers.
As explained by Robert W. Malone MD MS (2022), in his book, Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming, Skyhorse Pusblishing (Kindle Edition):
(p. 195)
All major mass media and the social media technology companies have coordinated with governments and the vaccine manufacturers to stifle and suppress any discussion of the risks of the genetic vaccines and/ or alternative early treatments.
(pp. 400-401)
The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is a British Broadcasting Corporation BBC-led organization that has been actively censoring eminent doctors, academics, and those with dissenting voices that contravene the official COVID-19 narrative. Anything contrary to this narrative is considered disinformation or misinformation and will be deleted, suppressed, or deplatformed.
In general, fear of disease has been turned into an information weapon to control vast numbers of people and to create vast profits for a select number of companies. We, thus, are casualties of a propaganda campaign that damages, rather than improves, public health.
This propaganda campaign that promotes a gravely flawed outlook on public health has cultivated widespread devotion to the idea that vaccines are the sole savior of humanity from emerging diseases. As a result, modern civilization has developed into an intricate web of financial dependencies on the pharmaceutical industry. Governments, companies, employees, health professionals, publishers, and many others, thus, are enslaved by the vast flow of money that the pharmaceutical industry controls. Jobs, reputations, careers, even a sense of purpose are critically dependent on this financial flow. This vast flow of money has washed away any authentic enthusiasm about human health in administrators and educators, leaving only a degraded conception of humans as weak, drug-dependent souls who are constantly threatened by illnesses over which they themselves have little control. People programmed with this degraded sense of humanity, thus, view small doses of substances injected or ingested into their bodies as the path to a better state of well-being. These people have succumbed to the delusion that well-being follows from a false approach completely fragmented from the greater whole of their existence. Pharmaceutical companies that cater to these people, therefore, have successfully (but tragically) re-defined health in terms of a normalized addiction to pharmaceutical products.
The consequence of this societal addiction to vaccines and other pharmaceutical products has been the demise of public-health management. The demise of public-health management has led to the inevitable demise of good health in America.
Modern plumbing and sanitation, along with advanced hygiene practices, contemporary building codes, and increased environmental consciousness, are primarily responsible for the decline of major infectious diseases over the centuries. Vaccines appear to have played a minor role, if any at all, in this development. As a nation, the United States, thus, had an enormous opportunity to achieve the greatest degree of health in history. Unfortunately, we failed miserably to capitalize on this opportunity. Instead, we succumbed to so-called "diseases of civilization", which include: hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cancers, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, central nervous system disorders, and neurogenerative diseases. Whether or not vaccines have had the opposite effect of their advertised purposes and played a role in this demise is still open to debate. Resolving that debate, however, is not necessary to realize the poor state of health in America as a whole.
If there is one indicator of poor health in America, then it is the obesity crisis, which encompasses both adults and children of all ages. The following chart shows that, between 1960 and 2018, the percentage of obese Americans tripled, and the percentage of severely obese Americans increased ten fold:
The next chart (below) shows that, between 1965 and 2018, childhood obesity also increased:
This increasing trend in childhood obesity continued through 2023, with no signs of changing:
According to Samuel Emmerich and Cynthia Ogden (18 October 2024), National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2000 through August 2021–August 2023:
From 1999–2000 through August 2021–August 2023, the prevalence of obesity among persons in the United States aged 2–19 years increased from 13.9% to 21.1%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 3.6% to 7.0%.
Obesity predisposes both adults and children to type 2 diabetes, remember, one of the "diseases of civilization" mentioned earlier. The next chart illustrates this concerning trend:
Even more concerning, the percentage of the U. S. population with diabetes is projected to become still greater in the future (see chart below):
Excessive and unreasonable enthusiasm for vaccination to strengthen global security, thus, has done little more than divert attention and resources away from the immediate crisis of obesity and its accompanying health issues.
Health agencies relentlessly broadcast the message that we must receive a battery of vaccines, while devoting only a fraction of that messaging to lifestyle, food quality, and nutrition. This one-sided, narrow-minded focus has created an unhealthy society addicted to the wrong ideas and to the wrong substances being put into our bodies.