Fluoridated water in Rutland, VT up for re-election, again
Fluoridated water in Rutland, VT up for re-election, again
Rutland has been fluoridating its water for decades. The last time it was on the ballot, in 2016, voters chose to keep the fluoride in. But concerned residents have another opportunity to vote on the topic in March.
Rutland resident Jack Crowther has been a longtime critic.
“You’re putting a drug, a medicine, in our water to treat tooth decay without the informed consent of the people,” Crowther said.
"Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?" 
"THEY'RE PUTTING MEDICINE IN THE WATER!" 
Also related, a Richmond, VT waterworks employee secretly lowered fluoride levels in the town's drinking supply for a decade.
EDIT: I should've updated this a month ago, but the town voted to keep fluoride.
Fluoride? Cute. We were talking about that in the 90's. REAL conspiracy heads know they're putting MICROCHIPS in the water, nanometer size so you slurp them right up. The only water that's safe is water that's been sitting for at least a good week or two, you want it brown with the little squirmy things swimming in it, drink that raw water white man.
My friend drank milk and got a parasite that only 5 people get annually in the US
Hell yeah raw milk
I only recently watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time a couple of years ago and I laughed my ass off when he started ranting about how Commies don't drink water as I sat there drinking whisky. Such a great movie.
Love water though.
it is 1960, the CHUDS are braying for more cavities from their sodie pop it is 1990, the CHUDS are braying for more cavities from their sodie pop it is 2024, the CHUDS are braying for more cavities from their sodie popis this shit astroturfed by fucking dentist trade comissions or some shit? these people weren't fucking alive when this decision was first made. you're big and strong! fluoride didn't ruin you!
Unlimited actual literal genocide, ie line up every fucking one of them who has ever existed and
every fucking one of them, to the John Birch Society.
Unfortunately it’s the kids who will suffer disproportionately. Fluoride supplementation isn’t really needed for adults, we get enough from our toothpaste, but it’s important for healthy tooth development in kids
Its an element not a "medicine". Its found naturally already in the water.
5 systems already have >0.60 ppm naturally.
Even more private well systems naturally have over 2.00ppm which is the MCL concern level and reccomend expensive reverse osmosis treatment to remove the naturally high levels of "medicine".
Why test a private water supply?
There are geographic areas in Vermont where the naturally occurring fluoride level in the groundwater exceeds the recommended guideline for fluoride of 2.0 parts per million (ppm). The Health Department recommends a reverse osmosis water filtration system to reduce fluoride exposure to a level less than 2.0 ppm in private water supplies that exceed that level.
It is very important that prescriptions are NOT written for children who may already be receiving high levels of naturally fluoridated water. The only way to know for sure is to test the well water for its level of natural fluoride BEFORE prescriptions for supplements are written.
Bit idea -
Let's call it elemental
. We are putting the WOKE in the water and turning people WOKE so Joe Biden will win again.So you know that fluorosis is something you can get with too much exposure from just environmental sources, and yet you still want everyone to get an uncontrolled dose of it from the tap water. What do you expect people with fluorosis to do, only drink/bathe in distilled water? What do you expect people who need more fluoride do? Start chugging tap water until they get enough?
Isn't it better to just it in the toothpaste so everyone gets exactly the amount they need.
If anyone has weird hangups about fluoride or just likes longish internet slop I invite them to watch Angela Collier's explanation of what fluoride is, does, and the falsehoods surrounding the topic.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
They should put meth in the drinking water.
FOUR MORE GALLONS
Real communists have only ever drank Tarkhuna their entire lives. When all your bodily fluids have been replaced by it, you know The Specter has embraced you.
Tarkhuna
It's just another soda now. Capitalists ruined it.
Pulling out my ruined teeth and loading them into shotgun shells to combine all of my libertarian dipshittery to own the libs.
Keep your bodily fluids pure!
Vermont outside of Burlington is just an awful place. Rutland especially was one of the centers of the opioid epidemic in New England, so you'd think these officials have something better to deal than fluoridated water.
Water fluoridation is fucking stupid. Fluoride can cure cancer and make you immortal for all I care it's still stupid to put it in all the tap water. Of all the tap water you use how much do you actually drink vs washing things? And you know what's a way more efficient of getting it on your teeth other than drinking water? Toothpaste, which already fucking has fluoride in it.
Hmm, we have substance that's good for your teeth. Do we put it in the toothpaste or do we spend millions dumping it in all the fucking water?
Damn if only there were any research pointing out water fluoridation as one of the most cost-effective public health programs in the history of humanity.
Fluoride is cheap as shit.
If it's cheap as shit give everyone a packet of fluoride to smear on their teeth. Also I don't care about whatever "line goes up" justification there is, it's just still a roundabout and wasteful delivery method to put it in the tap water. There's no way to control dosage and it's wasteful. Also municipalities fuck up the quantity of fluoridation pretty regularly.
Besides the practical concerns water fluoridation would never pass an ethical review if it were proposed today. People should be able to consent to what medicine they're taking. It's banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.
Also dentists aren't real doctors. They don't go through med school and most of the research they publish isn't nearly as rigorous as regular medical research. Same fuckers came up with the bright idea to put mercury in tooth implants.
Also, in someplaces they remove the fluoride from water. We are animals that evolved to drink water from pools on the ground. Our bodies want it to have minerals. This is giving our bodies what they need
I'm only drinking RO water and bathing in battery acid
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892036214001809
It's a pilot study but even if there's an incredibly small chance of neurotoxicity then that should be enough to stop dumping it in all the fucking water.
Y'all would've defended leaded gasoline if you were boomers.
Come on, the fluoride study groups in that study are mostly above the federal recommendations, and if anything the proper reaction is a slight reduction in fluoride use in water, not a complete withdrawal. It's useful for tooth health which can save you from infections of the jaw and other issues
This also assumes that measuring by iq makes any sense whatsoever for toxicology.