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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.