Aside: Top Global Health Issues Today

 Here are the top three, but often overlooked, global health issues:

Vaccine Safety and VAERS

Vaccines have become a standard component of mainstream public health in most countries. However, as with all medicine, there are always risks of adverse acute and chronic reactions to vaccines in a variety of populations. These damages to health are reported using the VAERS system in the U.S. Unlike all other medicines, however, the risks intrinsic to vaccines are downplayed to the point of being ignored. Some, despite a variety of evidence, even claim that vaccines are the only medicine ever discovered to have no adverse effects whatsoever. This willful neglect about disclosing the side effects and risks of vaccines to the public, like what is required for every other medicine, is compounded by the fact that, unlike other medicines, the companies that manufacture vaccines have absolutely no liability and can never be sued directly. Instead, when these companies are sued, the tax payer pays the bill. This lack of accountability makes Vaccine manufacturers immune from the damage or harm they don't disclose and then cause, creating a dangerous, zero accountability, environment for public health. Now with Covid-19, and the vaccines that have been rushed for emergency use approval, this lack of accountability and informed consent is only getting worse.

Water Fluoridation

There are a variety of stances on whether or not water fluoridation is good for, bad for, or irrelevant to tooth health. However, by fluoridating municipal water supplies often without much media coverage or any public disclosures, cities around the world are removing many people's ability to make their own health choices for their own bodies regarding whether or not they want fluoridation treatment. Indeed, since when did the government become the doctor? Since when does it make sense to continuously treat the entire population - from infants to the elderly - with the same medical substance - whatever it may be? Even vaccines, the only other ubiquitous public treatment, are administered at key intervals of age over a person's life, and yes, vaccines are only administered by a doctor. Water fluoridation tablets should be available for free for those who want them, but municipal water supplies should get out of the healthcare industry and stop blanket-treating our water with fluoride.   

Air Quality

Air quality around the world varies dramatically. However, smog, ozone, and particulates cause disease and death in many urban, especially industrial, centers today. This often overlooked public health problem is both ubiquitous and dire, and must be addressed. Some possible solutions include designating urban areas that are bike / walk only, designing walkable neighborhoods, and providing stronger environmental controls to regulate exhaust from cars and factories.