Pardon me for asking the rude question, but since when was the CDC interested in deaths from causes that are clearly not diseases??
“Pardon me for asking the rude question, but since when was the CDC interested in deaths from causes that are clearly not diseases??”
Like any bureaucracy, they wish to grow. “Medicallizing” all aspects of life give them immense fields of growth. Because there is nothing that cannot be claimed to affect health or safety, all life becomes subject to their power.
They have been doing it for quite a while. When criminoligists found that “gun control” was not effective, and that benefits of gun ownership might be greater than the costs, the proponents of citizen disarmament attempted to transform it to a “public health” issue. That way they have eliminated rigorous inquiry and have avoided considering negative effects of their proposals.
A great deal of Bloomberg’s money is going into this attempt.