Posted on 11/17/2024 10:05:42 AM PST by PJ-Comix
It turns out that General Jack Ripper was inadvertently right. Fluoridated water does turn kids into Commies by making them stupider. And one of those who probably drank too much fluoridated water as a kid was Larry Sabato as evidenced by his dopey election Crystal Ball being so absurdly WRONG. Here we see Larry Sabato switching from self-anointed political expert to self-anointed public health expert primarily because his extreme TDS causes him to oppose President Trump's pick of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr as Secretary of HHS. Despite the fact that most of Europe, which liberals love to emulate, has BANNED the use of fluoride in drinking water not only because it can be harmful but also on the very good principal of NOT forcing people to involuntarily drink water laced with pharmaceuticals. Yet Sabato wants to keep fluoride in the water because of his hatred for Orange Man Bad.
PING!
Having a strong opinion in favor of fluoride is a bit suspicious. Something I’d expect not from the duped but innocent, but rather from the complicit, high level globalists and other secret society types.
honestly, after living in an area that did not have fluoridated water, after spending my life in places that did have fluoridated water I can tell you, I’ll take fluoridated water every time.
I had never in my life seen children with rotten baby teeth, with cavities in and fillings in baby teeth until I moved someplace that had banned flouride in their water.
It was insane, 4 and 5 year olds with obvious fillings and sometimes completely missing teeth because their baby teeth were rotten.
That was something I had never in my life experienced before, it was disturbing to see small children with teeth that were in conditions I had only seen in older people in my life up until that point.
Will see how this all plays out, but of all the health issues going on in America today Fluoridated Water is not even remotely on top of the list.
Sorry, but if you believe that, I think you need to go spend some time somewhere that doesn’t have fluoride in their water supply
It is SHOCKING to see. If you have never experienced it, you won’t understand.
Is there any evidence that fluoride in the drinking water has had any positive measurable effects?
If not, then why are we doing it?
Shut up Macaca!
If you want fluoride, Larry, try brushing your teeth twice a day with just about any toothpaste. Get a fluoride treatment when you go to the dentist twice a year. It’s probably covered in your insurance. If he’s avoiding tap water and drinking from bottles, it’s not making any difference anyway. It’s not good to ingest that stuff every time you drink tap water.
> I’ll take fluoridated water every time <
I was always cavity prone. And not just one cavity per dental visit. Multiple cavities. Then I started getting annual fluoride treatments at the dentist’s office. It’s a kind of paste they put on your teeth, then let it sit for a minute or two.
Since then I’ve been averaging one cavity every ten years or so (not kidding).
To each his own. Your mileage may vary. Etc.
Imagine if, in order to treat/prevent Covid, they had added Remdesivir to the water supply.
The studies were done years ago with naturally occurring calcium fluoride. The world health organization studied fluoridation in Europe, and found that cavities diminished in fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries at the same rate, at the same time period (covering decades).
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What if fluoride protects teeth but is harmful in other ways?
What if there is safer alternative to fluoride that would prevent rotting baby teeth?
I don’t know the answers to these questions yet, but I want to hear some debate about it before concluding that fluoride in the water is a good idea.
I remember the controversy quite a few years back. At the time, late 60s, I had no opinion. Now it seems pretty stupid to add a chemical to water, forcing everyone to drink it, without knowing the long term consequences, if any.
Yes, if you get annual treatments it will help, but most people don’t for whatever reason. Financial, ignorance, etc.
Fluoride in the water works.
Some people, like yourself have weak teeth, they are prone to rot much quicker and easier than others.
The back story on how Fuoride came to be added to water is a very simple one. A dentist realized after a move that he wasn’t seeing the rot he was used to in people teeth. He decided to investigate and discovered the water where he currently was naturally had fluoride in it... compared to the water where he previously had operated. So he started testing if fluoride strengthened teeth, he found that it did, and the advocation of adding fluoride to drinking water came about.
Like I said in my original post, I never gate any thought to fluoride in the water until I moved to a place where it was banned, and it was absolutely insane the teeth rot I witnessed there compared to everywhere else I had ever lived.
Seeing small children with completely rotten baby teeth, was something I had never ever seen in my life before moving there. It was so common that I casually noticed it, and investigated why, and that led to me finding out the water there did not have Fluoride added to it.
The evidence is so striking and in your face, if you have ever lived someplace that doesn’t have it, that you can’t miss it.
So, anyway, we’ll see how this plays out, but this is so low, and I do men so low on the public health issue list, that honestly, way way bigger fish to fry than this one. If this is what gets focused on, over the other real present dangers in our current system this will be disappointing.
We literally have chemicals added to our food that have nothing remotely neutritional about them in any form, and for some reason (corruption) they are allowed in our foods, and its just insane.
Can anyone tell me why we have food dyes made from petrochemicals allowed in our foods? Anyone? Literally nothing about them is food... nothing. Yet they are allowed.
We have chemicals we know imitate or affect hormones allowed in our foods.... etc etc etc...
Fluoride in the water, way way way down the list. Even if you believe the allegations against Fluoride the risks are so astronomically low, that if that’s top priority, its clear we’ve been had.
We raised our three kids in a rural area on non-fluoridated well water, ages now 20 to 25, and I don’t think any of them has ever had a cavity. I know the two still at home never had any, and I believe the other one never had a cavity either. They did get fluoride treatments at the dentist and regularly brushed with fluoride toothpaste. In fact, a lot of people in this area grew up on well water, and I have never heard of that being an issue. I grew up in a city that did have fluoridated water and I had several cavities before and during my teen years.
This is certainly not a scientific observation, merely circumstantial, but I think it does go a ways to show that fluoridated water is not necessary for dental health, provided other measures are taken.
Every study done on Fluoridated water, except for 1, which when it was tried again the results could not be repeated, found absolutely no correlation between Fluoride in the water, and long term health issues.
The one study that did, which could not be reproduced when attempted, did find an increased rate for an incredibly rare form or cancer. I forget the cancer’s name, but it was cancer who’s risk of anyone having was insanely small, and while Fluoride did seem to raise the risk of said cancer statistically, it was a cancer type that was so rare, that even if the rates were double (which the risk found was not remotely double) it would still have an incident rate of some absolutely insane small amount.... And again that study when attempted to be replicated did not show any impact by Fluoride at all.
So, if this is someones top priority, then we’ve all been had by “make american healthy again.”
And, does your well water naturally have Fluoride in it?
That’s how fluoridation came to be added it water supplies in the first place. It is naturally occurring in some places in the water supply and in those areas, people have much healthier teeth. It was this realization that led to fluoridation in public water supplies in the first place.
Would you support forced drinking of other compounds (in public water supplies) if there was evidence that it was beneficial and cost effective for some people?
Or is fluoride (and chlorine) the exception?
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