By Dr. Marilyn M. Singleton, America Out Loud, Oct 11, 2022
Dr. Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She graduated from Stanford and earned her MD at UCSF Medical School. …
The government has listed an increasing number of social issues as public health problems — from gentrification to higher education. While public health officials are caterwauling about monkeypox, they are strangely silent about the pandemic of human trafficking. This rapidly growing business amasses billions of dollars for the perpetrators and ruins the lives of thousands of our fellow Americans.
In the wake of the revelations about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and their high-end customers, discussion of human trafficking should have been front and center. Instead, to protect these power-broker perverts, the airwaves are silent on the issue. Moreover, in the current Administration’s effort to downplay the immigration crisis at our Southern border, the media have pushed the mute button on the human trafficking aspect of illegal immigration. …