Prevent, Predict, Detect, Respond

A primary strategy employed by our adversaries is a slow, incessant, very gradual encroachment of civil liberties, carried out through complex, indecipherable Aesopian Language. So in that context - what exactly does ‘Prevent, Predict, Detect, Respond‘ entail?

And how does this relate to ‘One Health’, ‘Biosecurity’, ‘Global Health Security’, and ‘Planetary Health/Human well-being‘? Let’s go through this step by step, to ensure that in terms of understanding, we…

Leave No One Behind¹.

In 2021, the World Health Organisation released the following document; ‘ONE HEALTH THEORY OF CHANGE‘². And let’s just get it out of the way -

‘Working Toward a World Better Able to Prevent, Predict, Detect, and Respond to Health Threats and Improve the Health of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment While Contributing to Sustainable Development‘.

This post isn’t specifically about One Health, but I just wanted to establish that the two are related and contextually relevant.

… but recall how I said that they continuously and very gradually increase the scope of initiatives, thus encroaching civil liberties? Well, setting aside the absurd lists outlined in the document, please do take a look at the below and see what now counts in a discussion on what started as an initiative allegedly related to human health.

‘One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.‘

The key phrase here really is ‘sustainably balance and optimize‘. Because what does that entail, precisely?

‘The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems, while addressing the collective need for clean water, energy and air, safe and nutritious food, taking action on climate change, and contributing to sustainable development.‘

And yes, of course. ‘Climate change‘ and ‘sustainable development’ are now also included. It’s not really about human health - especially yours, but rather that of human collective health. But it’s now also about…

‘Social, economic, cultural, political, technological… Anthropogenic Influences on Health‘

That’s… just a little too close in my book. We used to call those…

The Determinants of Health