"The concept of 'public health' is used today as a package deal..."

"The concept of 'public health' is used today as a package deal to leverage the legitimate function of government regarding infectious disease (e.g. quarantine) to rationalise illegitimate paternalistic government programs for improving indirect health outcomes."

~ Dr. Amesh Adalja, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, from his lecture at #OCON2023