Granted this came out 25 years ago but the list of great public health acheivements is still the same on their site. But let's review one by one.

  1. vaccination: no one vaccine has consistently provided immunity across populations, not one has been free of severe adverse events including death, and not one has stopped random outbreaks in vaccinated individuals
  2. motor-vehicle safety: seriously CDC, you're taking credit for an engineer implementing the seat belt?
  3. safer workplaces: deaths from accidental and unintentional injuries in America have increased 28% since 2013, and the US has 3x higher occurrence of accidental deaths than any other country
  4. control of infectious disease: infectious disease or vaccine preventable disease only kills 2,000 Americans each year - pretty insane to celebrate this when rates of pediatric cancer continue to skyrocket with no identified cause
  5. decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke: someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds in America and dies of a stroke every 4 minutes. rates of death from both have increased over the last 5 years and cardiovascular events among people under 50 have also significantly increased - as of 2020, 1 in 5 heart attack patients were under 40
  6. safer and healthier foods: genetically engineered, hormone & antibiotic pumped, industrially produced, processed, dead, poison? thanks CDC?
  7. healthier mother's and babies: well considering America has the highest rate of infant and maternal mortality out of all developed countries, I'm gonna have to say no
  8. family planning: if by this they mean extreme reduction in fertility and birth rates, then sure
  9. fluoridating drinking water: oh adding toxic chemicals to our water to improve our teeth at the expense of our brain and cellular health? why don't we just address the real problem - sugar and artificial sugar that can't be broken down. remains from 2000 years ago have perfect teeth and certainly didn't fluoridate their water.
  10. recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard: now this one is interestingly worded because tobacco actually isn't a health hazard at all and has no correlation to lung cancer - the cigarettes we were producing and continue to produce are full of toxins and unnatural materials never meant to be burnt and inhaled. tobacco has literally been a medicinal plant for all of history.