I was a child growing up in NY when fluoride was introduced to the water. I was already terrified of the dentist after many encounters with the drill. However, once it was added to the water, I never had another cavity. There just is something totally wrong with these people.
I was going to suggest buying stock in Coastal Dental (pretty much the only place you can use most dental insurance in Florida, if you even have that) but apparently they bought all their stock back a while back and went private.
People are going to ordering a lot of ACT from Amazon, I guess, since sales will probably be banned in Florida. Maybe there'll even be a black market for it, with people traveling into Georgia and Alabama to smuggle it into the state.
If Brainworms is self aware enough to know people shouldn't follow the medical advice he gives, why can't he make the next logical step and STOP OFFERRING MEDICAL ADVICE?!?!
What's next? Chlorine and other chemicals used to purify our drinking water? After all, Brainworm thinks young healthy bodies can cure measles and safely splash around in polluted Rock Creek...
Back in the Jurassic Period, my elementary school provided kids (like me) whose homes used well water instead of the fluoridated municipal water with a fluoride rinse that we got to gurgle every week. No one complained it was forced medication to turn us communists. Our parents were just like, “you’re going to do it because we don’t want you to get cavities.”
I am going to join the chorus here affirming the extreme harm posed by this rightward tacking of our political representation, especially to those who are already underserved and/or reside in rural areas.
During my employment at a locally owned pharmacy, the business participated in Dental Clinic where the only "curative" for prolonged neglect of preventative oral care is extraction. At least that was the remedy for the patients who visited us to fill prescriptions for, chiefly, antibiotics. Dental care, with eye health second, remains out of reach for so many Americans (in my estimation). The costs are onerous and debilitating for those with dental coverage. Now we have to contend with an anti-intellectual flank of not-doctors, not-scientists, not-healthcare policy analysts but (disastrous) party loyalists heading up HHS, FDA and the CDC.
Florida, with its Dudley Do-Right reactionary governor and, let's not forget, a Surgeon General who was one of Trump's America's Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), that assemblage of White Coats that convened on the steps of the Supreme Court as an inane bid to sway the ethotic argument against testable science and data at the height of the COVID pandemic, is a sunk cost policy-wise, political leadership-wise, until the voters consider all people, from every economic strata.
November 2026: Florida prove you are not a mollifier of injurious, slanted policy and oust DeSantis.
Well, the only good thing on that note is that DeSantis will be term-limited so he can't be governor again. Although there has been talk of his wife running. Which might be affected somewhat by the little scandal involving her charitable organization using funds to donate to campaigns against the marijuana and abortion amendments. Of course she'll probably get away with it.
Thanks for responding. I should have clarified in my post to not elect another Trump-Republican but not sure whether most constituents would be amenable to a platform that regards proven, testable science as a policy guide post. His wife would be more of the same, probably worse. I used to live in a suburb of South Miami and enjoy the diverse conviviality of South Beach. Christian Conservatives were felt at a remove. I was living in an even more Christian Conservative state by the time Gov Scott took office and was harrangued by a constituent in Starbucks for cutting Medicaid. (Couldn't be more proud!)
A hostile environment for progressives who champion education, diversity and sighted public health guidance. 0 out of 5 five stars: would not recommend.
I was a child growing up in NY when fluoride was introduced to the water. I was already terrified of the dentist after many encounters with the drill. However, once it was added to the water, I never had another cavity. There just is something totally wrong with these people.
I was going to suggest buying stock in Coastal Dental (pretty much the only place you can use most dental insurance in Florida, if you even have that) but apparently they bought all their stock back a while back and went private.
People are going to ordering a lot of ACT from Amazon, I guess, since sales will probably be banned in Florida. Maybe there'll even be a black market for it, with people traveling into Georgia and Alabama to smuggle it into the state.
https://www.actoralcare.com/en-us/products
"Fluoride is not Part of God's Plan for humanity. In fact, neither are teeth."
If Brainworms is self aware enough to know people shouldn't follow the medical advice he gives, why can't he make the next logical step and STOP OFFERRING MEDICAL ADVICE?!?!
Because he only said that because he had to for the hearing. He absolutely wants people to follow his advice.
When you are going to be swept out to sea in a few months cavity prevention is probably a lower priority?
What's next? Chlorine and other chemicals used to purify our drinking water? After all, Brainworm thinks young healthy bodies can cure measles and safely splash around in polluted Rock Creek...
Apparently my Florida county is one that stopped flouride on its own, not too long ago. Will they stop allowing it in toothpaste?
complete replacement teeth will do land office business, quite expensive though …
Leana Wen. There's a pub hound I'd hoped to never hear from again!
Make Tooth Decay Great Again!
As if Florida didn't have enough residents with bad or no teeth...
Back in the Jurassic Period, my elementary school provided kids (like me) whose homes used well water instead of the fluoridated municipal water with a fluoride rinse that we got to gurgle every week. No one complained it was forced medication to turn us communists. Our parents were just like, “you’re going to do it because we don’t want you to get cavities.”
Which I managed to avoid until I was in my 40s.
When exactly did this country become so stupid?
The US o' A has always been 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 of stupid. But since Reagan made ignorance a virtue, I'd say our present level of stupid started around 1980.
In six months, ingesting fluoride in any form will be illegal. You heard it here first.
They're probably going to hunt down those 4 out of 5 ADA dentists who are too woke and deport them.
So will getting vaccinated.
I am going to join the chorus here affirming the extreme harm posed by this rightward tacking of our political representation, especially to those who are already underserved and/or reside in rural areas.
During my employment at a locally owned pharmacy, the business participated in Dental Clinic where the only "curative" for prolonged neglect of preventative oral care is extraction. At least that was the remedy for the patients who visited us to fill prescriptions for, chiefly, antibiotics. Dental care, with eye health second, remains out of reach for so many Americans (in my estimation). The costs are onerous and debilitating for those with dental coverage. Now we have to contend with an anti-intellectual flank of not-doctors, not-scientists, not-healthcare policy analysts but (disastrous) party loyalists heading up HHS, FDA and the CDC.
Florida, with its Dudley Do-Right reactionary governor and, let's not forget, a Surgeon General who was one of Trump's America's Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), that assemblage of White Coats that convened on the steps of the Supreme Court as an inane bid to sway the ethotic argument against testable science and data at the height of the COVID pandemic, is a sunk cost policy-wise, political leadership-wise, until the voters consider all people, from every economic strata.
November 2026: Florida prove you are not a mollifier of injurious, slanted policy and oust DeSantis.
Well, the only good thing on that note is that DeSantis will be term-limited so he can't be governor again. Although there has been talk of his wife running. Which might be affected somewhat by the little scandal involving her charitable organization using funds to donate to campaigns against the marijuana and abortion amendments. Of course she'll probably get away with it.
Thanks for responding. I should have clarified in my post to not elect another Trump-Republican but not sure whether most constituents would be amenable to a platform that regards proven, testable science as a policy guide post. His wife would be more of the same, probably worse. I used to live in a suburb of South Miami and enjoy the diverse conviviality of South Beach. Christian Conservatives were felt at a remove. I was living in an even more Christian Conservative state by the time Gov Scott took office and was harrangued by a constituent in Starbucks for cutting Medicaid. (Couldn't be more proud!)
A hostile environment for progressives who champion education, diversity and sighted public health guidance. 0 out of 5 five stars: would not recommend.
*laughs in British*