Happy Semiquincentennial America from Dr McCullough & The Wellness Company
250 years of medical advancements as our nation grew
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Happy birthday America! The proper term for America’s 250th birthday (the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026) is the Semiquincentennial. Other terms you may see include: America250 — the official branding used by the national commemorative organization. [america250.org] 250th Anniversary of American Independence — a plain-language description. Less common alternatives are: Sestercentennial and Quarter Millennium.
I searched AI to bring to perspective on our progress:
American contribution
Huge impact on health
Technically demonstrable and reproducible
Less dependent on debates about specific interventions or disease narratives
My “America at 250” medical achievements list would be:
What’s striking is that the biggest improvements in life expectancy often came not from a drug or vaccine, but from clean water, sewage systems, food safety, isolation practices, and public-health organization. Many historians of medicine argue that those public-health advances contributed more to mortality reduction than most individual therapies.
For a Semiquincentennial presentation, a nice framing would be:
1776: Doctors could watch you suffer.
1826: Doctors could sometimes help.
1876: Doctors began to understand disease.
1926: Doctors could cure some diseases.
1976: Doctors could perform many life saving surgeries.
2026: Doctors can analyze disease at the genetic level and use thousands of drugs and perform hundreds of procedures.
The Wellness Company is Here and Now
Born in the crucible of the pandemic in 2022, The Wellness Company has emerged as the the leader of the health freedom movement with health and wellness education, nutriceuticals, supplements, compounded pharmaceuticals, peptides, medical emergency kits, and telemedicine. With a national contract for Medicare Care Management, Wellness Care is leading the field with health innovations for our seniors designed to keep them healthy and out of the hospital. We have embraced AI and are using evidence-based evaluations of our products to guide future development and messaging to our rapidly growing base of customers.
Happy Fourth of July!
Sincerely yours,
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Chief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Company
Of all of our freedoms, "Freedom of Speech" is the most important!
"THE FREE SPEECH ADDRESS"
Twelvescore and ten years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, and celebrating the right of every individual to live life as they see fit. Eightscore and one year ago those words rang more true as a great war that had divided our nation ended, and the morally right side prevailed as our black brothers and sisters were set free.
Yet now we are engaged in another great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. This time another precious freedom is at stake, the right of every person to freely express their thoughts in words or actions in a way that is contrary to others, the majority, or those in power. We are all now met on the great battlefield of that war. We must stand up for the right of every person to have a voice, and trust in good faith that good ideas will prevail over bad ones. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we must all trust each other. We must trust in the pure hearts and intentions of our fellow countrymen, otherwise our house that is now divided against itself will not stand. The world should take note and long remember what we say here because the fate of free and civil societies hangs in the balance. It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of the one who preached that a man should not be judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. But how can you truly know the content of his character if you don't allow him to talk to you at some length? We must highly resolve to protect and cherish this most precious freedom of speech so that this free nation that is a beacon to so many others shall not perish from this earth.
(By Tom Haviland, Abe Lincoln, and Martin L. King, Jr.)