retirado do blogue de esquerda, ao qual, por sua vez, retirou de uma revista, a Harper's.
 
"Death is inevitable, but not disease. The difference may be as simple as washing our hands or keeping the wastes of industrialized farming out of the water supply, but it is often much more complicated. Bacteria and viruses are no mean adversaries, nor are they easily defeated. If we fail to be watchful or to protect those most at risk, a public-health catastrophe is inevitable, and yet somewhere within the span of the last thirty years the idea of the common good has disappeared from our national consciousness, giving way to the misconception that we no longer need to concern ourselves with the welfare of our fellow citizens. It is a dangerous concept, and it leads us toward a future infected with unprecedented and unnecessary disease.We have grown not so much complacent and narcotized, lulled into a sense of security by the almost daily pronouncements from corporate medicine and the pharmaceutical industry of better drugs and more “breakthrough” treatments. The spectacular progress of twentieth- century medicine, most recently the sequencing of the human genome, sponsors the widespread fancy that disease might someday be conquered, that genetic manipulation or nanotechnology or some other science- fiction marvel might bring with it the cure for death. Long forgotten are the days when the loss of a child to diphtheria or whooping cough or yellow fever was a commonplace event, the days before widespread vaccination and government safety and health regulations ; we no longer remember life before publicly funded sewage –treatment plants and the passage of the clean – air and –water acts. Public health is often invisible and unremarked when it works well; when it fails our neighbors sicken and die.A public health system is only as strong as its weakest link ; an epidemic enforces, in the most rigorous fashion, the American credo that all men are created equal. If we allow one segment of our society to suffer and perish from preventable disease, little stands in the way of collective doom."
 
A ideia pré-concebida e aceite que certos trabalhos serão cumpridos por pessoas de "classes inferiores" e de que não se tem de pensar nisso nem dar a devida importância para o bem estar, em termos de saude prgânica, é ignorar os reais principios que nos regulam. A sociedade baseia-se em milhares de formigas para a poder sustentar a niveis superiores, mas estes muitas vezes esquecem-se de quem lhes confere a possibilidade de viverem como vivem. E como bem diz no artigo "Public health is often invisible and unremarked when it works well; when it fails our neighbors sicken and die.A public health system is only as strong as its weakest link"