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Thanks to @SoTex and @Blue for the additional recs!

I'm trying to avoid RO systems, though. Northeast water is primarily river/lake water, so the problem of massive mineral concentrations from deep groundwater sources is not a concern.

I lived in central TX for many years - God that water was horrible. NYC used to have the best water quality in the nation - they were bottling it and selling it in Commifornia back in the 80's. Then, they built suburbs around the lakes that sourced the water, and the water quality went to shit.

stereotomy says

I lived in central TX for many years - God that water was horrible.

I can boil down a half pan of tap water and collect a thick layer of calcium carbonate dust lol.. It's good for your teeth and bones! I actually liked it in the early 80s but it's gone downhill since they started adding chloramines. Now it tastes like shit.

Oh and the last house I rented had a tankless water heater. Instead of deposits collecting in the thank they were blown through all of the pipes and appliances in the house. I literally had a standing 3 month appointment with a plumber who would come and blow the pipes out. It looked like they were full of crushed coral.

Fortunately that neighborhood had it's own water supply separate from the county that fees most of the city and suburbs. So the new place I'm renting isn't as bad. This house also has a water softener. I'm trying to decide if I like that or not.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/religious-fervor-tuesday-october

Last week, I reported terrific news about the first federal decision in history finding that average water fluoridation levels pose an unreasonable health risk to children by potentially lowering their IQ. (Which explains a lot about the last 50 years, if you think about it.) Anyway, mercifully, something like a sort of intellectual exodus is surprisingly underway. It all began with AP’s September 25th headline, “Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says.”

The Associated Press quoted University of Florida researcher Ashley Malin, PhD, who has published studies on the controversial chemical, and who called last month’s decision “the most historic ruling in the U.S. fluoridation debate that we’ve ever seen.”

On the other hand, the CDC’s so-called experts, who were dead wrong during covid, still call fluoride the greatest public health achievement of the last century. So. You choose.

Anyway, in the two weeks since the decision, a storm surge of people hedging their bets took off like a Boeing 747 with its wheels still on. Wait till you see the kinds of formerly verboten headlines appearing now. First, from News Nation, three days ago:

Fluoride may not do the dental job we thought: Study

... Soon, everybody will have always been against fluoride. Ladies and gentlemen, behold: another conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact.

Trace fluoride will reduce decay in developing children, but micro doses can be included with kiddie vitamins, it does not need to be in the water supply for everybody to do that (plus it remains optional). Also, it is unnecessary after the age of eight to ten or so. So why fluoridate the entire water supply for the entire population for kiddies who can get it in a safer, more measured dosage form otherwise and the rest of the population doesn't need it?

Fuckin' A, the John Birch Society was right all along. The Soviets fluoridated their population to increase passivity, too, apparently in even greater doses.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/t-minus-one-monday-november-4-2024

This weekend, the Washington Post ran a biting but very encouraging story headlined, “Trump will push to get fluoride out of drinking water, RFK Jr. says.” That much was true, RFK did say that:




It might have been the fairest WaPo story I’ve ever seen. Meaning, fair for the WaPo. I expected an all-out effort to paint Trump and RFK as tinfoil-underpants-wearing conspiracy theorists. Shockingly, it only slyly hinted in that direction. Something held it back. Maybe the emerging truth.

Granted, the article was packed with pro-fluoride propaganda, including a tender recitation of fluoride’s halcyon American history (the waste chemical was first salted into Michigan’s water supply in 1945). But surprisingly, it also included two short segments questioning the fluoride narrative. Here’s the first one:

Some researchers have raised concerns about fluoride's effects, such as
whether the mineral has a harmful effect on developing brains. A study
led by researchers at the University of Southern California and
published in JAMA Network Open in May suggested that fluoride
exposure during pregnancy was linked to an increased risk of childhood
neurobehavioral problems.
"[M]ore studies are urgently needed to understand and mitigate the
impacts in the 99 entire U.S. population," Tracy Bastain, a USC associate
professor and author of the study, said in a statement in May. Bastain
did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Kennedy's
comments.

Maybe the WaPo was forced by circumstances to take a more neutral tone. But take a moment to reflect on how far and how quickly we’ve come.

Four years ago, a political candidate who even asked questions about fluoride would have crashed and burned faster than a billion-dollar F-35 fighter jet. Four years ago, the WaPo wouldn’t have even bothered treating this story like a real news issue. Instead, it would have run a tongue-in-cheek story about the history of conspiracy theories, starting with the Germanic Tribes blaming malodorous vapors and vile effusions for the bubonic plague.

The WaPo hasn’t changed—the public’s perception has. The WaPo is still at it. Another WaPo story this weekend leaned harder into the conspiracy angle, featuring the alarming headline “GOP’s closing election message on health baffles strategists, worries experts.” Experts baffled again.

But even that article was quietly rebellious, quoting convicted investment fraudster and known pharma shill Martin Shkreli. A worse choice for an anti-Kenney, pro-FDA quote can hardly be imagined...

But despite corporate media’s flailing efforts to slam shut the Overton Window, we are now having something close to a civil public debate about fluoride. In fact, one of the two major political parties, the party currently leading the race, is practically running on a promise to ban fluoride in drinking water. For the Overton Window to shift this far, a ton of regular folks had to become willing to re-consider the conventional narrative and question their assumptions about the government’s good intentions.