Florida becomes 2nd state to ban fluoride from public drinking water
Florida became the second state in the country after Utah to ban local governments from adding fluoride to their public water systems.
man we are like 2 years away from putting lead back in the gasoline at this point
It's got what lungs crave.
Don't give them ideas.
lmao first state after UTAH, of all places. talk about a state whose whole economy relies on their smiles.. jesus joseph smith that's wild
Dumbest of the dumb. If you really want to belitin conspiracies and want to fight that machine, put Desantis and his wife in jail for diverting tax dollars to their pet projects.
As long as I continue to brush with floride toothpaste, this shouldn't matter. Right?
Well, I'll say that most highly thought of European counties don't do it so, yeah, use fluoride toothpaste and you're gucci.
Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Oh, despite us Finns not fluoridating water, there's quite a lot of it in well water.
Finland
Kuopio is the only community in Finland with at least 70,000 people that has ever had water fluoridated.[56] Kuopio stopped fluoridation in 1992.[86] In regions with rapakivi bedrock (small, but densely populated regions), 22% of well waters and 55% of drilled well waters exceed the legal limit of 1.5 mg/L; generally, surface and well waters have 0.5-2.0 mg/L fluoride in affected regions.
Yeah, the amount of fluoride you need is miniscule. There hasn't really been much of a need for fluoridated water since fluoridated toothpastes became common in the 1960s.
There's nothing wrong with fluoridated water, and anyone with teeth certainly needs fluoride. But toothpaste and mouthwash are more than sufficient sources.
florida fell out of the news cycle after desantis abandoned his bid for the presidency.
Still, the Florida man that stopped a street fight via vehicular manslaughter, etc. has DeShittits beat, IMHO. That man is exemplary of his state. (Works both ways.)
especially with the news has been extremely quiet about the tariffs, canadian tourists boycotting hitting his state.
Honestly not a bad idea. Fluoride doesn't actually provide much of any benefit for those who brush their teeth. If anything we ought to be asking why we keep spending money on it now that brushing is entirely normal.
Because, the cost to rewards ratio is unbelievably high in this case. Putting fluoride into water is super cheap and the public benefit it creates is huge.
This is especially important for parts of the population that depend on others for their healthcare (kids). If your parents didn’t teach your to brush your teeth, creating good habits and providing the right materials, the fluoride is going to do a lot for this children.
Can some other ppl look at this guys account, it has the worst takes I've seen and just gets down voted everywhere. I can't tell if this is a real person or a bot to spread chaos.
People brushed their teeth back when fluoride was first introduced too. It was normal back then. Fluoride still offered a benefit and it still does today. That's how public health works, we look at the big numbers over time, like how many kids have teeth rotting out of their heads.
Looking at big numbers is how you harm minorities
It's not as common as you'd think unfortunately - and not all parents make their kids brush which is totally not their fault. So as long as it doesn't harm anyone to keep it in and helps some why not?
You got downvoted hard but you're not actually wrong. Fluoride in toothpaste is plenty to prevent tooth issues.
The issue in the US is that the large wealth inequality and poor education makes it so that a substantial number don't brush sufficiently. So fluoride in drinking water does help a bit.
In the Netherlands, we stopped doing it decades ago because the health benefit wasn't really measurable anymore. And there are some non-zero health risks to adding fluoride as well, particularly if too much is added (which despite many measures does occasionally happen).
Outside of the Anglosphere adding fluoride is actually quite uncommon. Initially I had this kneejerk reaction too of thinking this was DeSantis just being his usual stupid self, but apparently it's not even such a crazy idea. It does remain to be seen whether personal dental hygiene is good enough in the US.
You got downvoted hard but you’re not actually wrong.
I've noticed several issues like this which are prominent on both the right and the left, where the consensus is obviously wrong, but it's framed as such a deeply partisan issue that too many people refuse to even consider it, and everyone involved looks like ideological zealots for it.
