Cluck, cluck...buck, buck, CLUCK!
Posted on 04/03/2020 10:26:11 PM PDT by Libloather
As the novel coronavirus spread across the globe and health officials implored the public to use more hand sanitizer to mitigate the potentially deadly pathogen, grocery stores and online retailers saw the product evaporate from their shelves.
Desperate first responders and others on the frontlines of the battle against the pandemic grew alarmed, but in walked an unlikely savior: the booze industry, which shifted gears to churn out sanitizer using alcohol it had on hand and following a recipe approved by the World Health Organization.
But U.S. federal regulators -- trying to balance safety concerns with a rising demand for the virus-mitigating product -- are insisting that the recipe is not enough, and this stance is now complicating efforts to waive federal excise taxes on the sanitizing product.
**SNIP**
The new $2 trillion stimulus bill signed into law last week threw something of a wrench into the works of this massive mobilization effort. The legislation provides a much-needed waiver of costly federal excise taxes on distillers who make sanitizer.
But, it links that waiver to an adherence to the stricter FDA guidelines, which require the use of much more bitter, often toxic, chemicals, called "denatured" alcohol, to deter consumption, particularly by children. And critics have cried fowl.
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“Critics have cried fowl”
Fowl ?? Well, maybe the hand sanitizer produced by the Wild Turkey people might make ‘em yell, but really, whatever happened to basic spelling??? ;)
Cluck, cluck...buck, buck, CLUCK!
Gone the way of the dodo bird.
Who nose?
Who nose?
Beets me.
The rampant, errant apostrophes done sucked their brains out. That’s my theory.
Squawk havoc and loose the hens of war!
Don’t you mean “apostrophe’s”?
Oop’s
Now thats more like it!
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