You shall no longer refer to your children as daughters or sons, says Vermont Public Health.
Based on a temporary mania, we should throw out one thousand plus years of history – and refer to our teen sons and daughters as “child” or “kid” – not “son” or “daughter”.
As someone studying the Norwegian language, I am aware of the use of the terms –son and –dóttir in surnames, going back to Old Norse, one thousand years ago. Suggesting that people named Anderson should now be Anderschild or Anderskid is offensive to those with Scandinavian ancestry. The name “Anderson” means “Ander’s son” and Andersdottir means, literally, “Ander’s daughter”.
The words “extended family” must no longer be used.
The language we use… – Vermont Department of Health | Facebook
Other public health “experts” say we should no longer use the terms “mother”, “father” or parent: Inclusive Language Tips for Writing About Families — CommunicateHealth
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This is public health nonsense, having nothing better to do they redefine everyone else’s language (an act of “cultural imperialism”). Almost no one supports their initiative – The language we use… – Vermont Department of Health | Facebook
Reminder – in our country, the government allegedly is of, by and for the people and works for us, not the other way around.
I no longer listen to public health and ignore what they say – they have zero credibility.
They acted as incompetent arrogant sociopaths that denied us access to health care based on the reckless use of fraudulent disease models from the University of Washington Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation to set badly flawed public policies that harmed people. These models had never been verified – eventually our state dropped using IHME models because they were flawed and useless.
I was denied access to care for a broken foot – which subsequently led to 5 years of pain and numerous health problems. (Everything from the feet up is connected – feet -> ankles -> knees -> hips). After years of physical therapy and medical treatments (a tendon had never properly re-attached to one of the bones, which led to a secondary tear of the tendon, weakening of the muscles exposed unknown osteoarthritis of a knee, and the combination of injuries led to walking weird and trochanteric hip bursitis – that alone took over 5 months to heal.
Today, public health zombies insist they never shut health care – when in fact, they did and did so for the wrong reasons. At the time, we were told not to seek health care unless you had chest pain, difficulty breathing, an obvious fracture, or were in extreme pain. People who were then under the care of a doctor were abandoned by the health care system as appointment sequences for on-going care were cancelled.
You cannot hate public health enough. A field of study that is a total fraud.
After 3 months of being told to stay home, save lives, don’t kill Grandma, protesting became more important than fighting a virus. I will never forget nor forgive – unless they admit their errors and apologize. They’ve had long enough to do that by now but rather than acknowledge their grotesque failure, they’ve dug in. Hence, I will not forget nor forgive public health for what they did – and have no qualms accurately referring to them as arrogant, elitist asses.
I just remembered my first interaction with public health – occurring in Spokane, WA in the 2000s.
A friend invited me to attend a local public health meeting, the goal of which was to be a discussion about local public health topics. “Public health topics” turned out be open ended, having little to do with health or health care – indeed, “public health” improvement meant everyone else must change, and health care itself should make no changes!
I was the only person in attendance that did not work in health care or public health. Literally, the only member of the public.
The topic list they created on a poster board chart grew rapidly to many pages, consisting entirely of topics like this:
- grocery store locations
- the type of food carried in grocery stores
- need to set up health clinics in all public schools, with “neighborhood clinics” open to the public
- need to expand the local bus system
- expand police services
- restrict weapons (guns, knives, etc)
- the list went on for dozens of things like this – all involving people and activities way outside the scope of health care
Basically *everything* is the domain of public health “experts”.
I offered one suggestion – that we should seek to improve efficiency and effectiveness of health care. This was based on my having had graduate courses in health information systems and medical informatics, and my observation of absurd inefficiencies in local health care practices.
Such as having one printer at patient check in – to support 5 staff – with the printer located in a closet 25 feet away, down a separate aisle, behind the patient services desks. For each patient check in, the clerk had to get up and walk back to get the printout. Check in lines were always long. At the time, the printers they were using cost maybe $100 each, a cost that would have been quickly recovered by less time spent walking.
When I had wart frozen, the physician had to walk down the hallway to a supply cabinet to get a band-aid – because this practice didn’t stock a $4 box of band aids in every patient room! At the time, a physician was paid $2 to $6 per minute at that practice – one walk was a minimum of a minute and cost as much as stocking a box of Band-Aids!
My suggestion was not taken well – after the meeting, a man who identified himself as a semi-retired cardiologist, put his face about 8″ in front of mine and bizarrely told me that “I needed to be careful about choosing sides if I ever found I needed care”. WTF?
He threatened me for suggesting that simple efficiency measures could improve access to health care and lower cost.
At the time, I did not realize then that this is the mindset of public health – they literally hate the public. We are to be talked down to – public health does not listen to anyone. They are the authorities. Us peons must know our place in their hierarchy of the world.
