New Jersey keeps pushing for more Public Health funding
The NJDOH and its mouthpieces continue to push for S2413/A4115, which would require a minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2024/04/new-push-to-reinvigorate-nj-fragile-public-health-system/
The state Department of Health is looking for new ways to fund local public health infrastructure amid growing concern that these offices lack the resources to effectively prepare for future emergencies while conducting day-to-day operations.
…“The pandemic shined a much-needed light on the nationwide impact of chronic underfunding of public health and the need to be nimble to strengthen foundational public health capacities, address workforce shortages, modernize data systems, and increase capacity to serve critical public health needs,” said Health Department Communications Director Dalya Ewais in a written statement. “It also brought to light the need for long-term support to local health, which is a critical part of the public health ecosystem.”
…The state invested more than $161 million in local and county public health in this current fiscal year alone, Ewais said, and will funnel another $6 million in federal infrastructure funding to these offices over two years.
But much of that money is now gone, leaving public health offices back in the same precarious economic situation they were in before the pandemic.
Why is NJDOH crying poverty? What we’ve observed is that our government floods public health with funding during emergencies. And much of that money is spent in service to pharmaceutical interests, mandates and surveillance.
In 2020, NJDOH invested $32.3 million in local public health to support COVID-19 responses. NJ also distributed $155 million to ensure health, safety and quality in long-term care facilities (and we know how that went).
In 2021, NJ received $267 million in funding for school COVID protocols, provided $731 million in hospital funding.
In November 2022, the DOH announced $116.5 milllion toward strengthening public health infrastrucure.
At the start of 2023, NJDOH announced plans to grant $80,500,000 to “strengthen health work force, build foundational capacities and modernize data infrastructure.”
And now “much of that money is now gone”? Where did it go? And what does it say about the “public health ecosystem”?
We know that at least some of it went into elaborate campaigns to scare and shame New Jerseyans into compliance.
And some of it went to recruiting young people to promote vaccines.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kids-new-jersey-schools-win-prizes-vaccine-makers/
In New Jersey we’ve seen our tax dollars go towards propagandizing and coercing us to comply with public health measures that were not just ineffective, but often harmful.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/maplewood/s/hi5p4/nj-coronavirus-response-ranks-among-worst-america-index
New Jersey was ranked 46th out of 50 states in terms of performance despite having some of the toughest, more restrictive COVID-19 orders in the nation… New Jersey and Arizona were among the worst-performing states that saw significant outbreaks among communities of color and other vulnerable residents. New Jersey has been criticized for the way it handled the spread of the coronavirus in nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities and for not doing enough to protect elderly residents.
No one has apologized, or even admitted the terrible mistakes that were made. Meanwhile, stop into any local board of health meeting and you will likely find it operating as an local extension of the CDC.
It would serve New Jersey residents to stop and consider whether they actually want the measures that they would be paying for with additional funding to public health.
Corrupt NJ street fighter f nuts.
That is my spouse,
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