#individualist hopium

[wat3rm370n]

Public Health has “public” in it for a reason.

Public health solutions require normalized adoption of mitigation methods across the broad public. Buying into stigma by seeking “discreet” solutions is individualist hopium. The known effective solutions to infectious disease require uptake of measures at a community level — such as high uptake of vaccines, normalization of respirator mask use, and adoption of air filtration in indoor spaces. Nothing is going to happen “behind the scenes” to save anyone in a secret “stroke of genius” by some prominent people, nor by randos disseminating “hidden knowledge” of special products. Anyone claiming that is is likely peddling a bamboozle.

My strategy remains as ever: use proven measures whenever possible, don’t waste money on potentially harmful devices or unproven potions, pester your elected representatives for public health solutions for the problem of disease spread, and be the change you want to see by rejecting stigma.