Elysha bought me a new Quip toothbrush. I am very excited. If you don’t have a Quip or don’t know what a Quip toothbrush is, find out.
It’s fantastic.
While I’m thinking about how clean my teeth are going to be, consider this:
In 2013, the city council of Windsor, Ontario voted 8-3 to stop putting fluoride in the city water supply.
Libertarians argued that they should be able to decide what they put in their bodies.
Far stupider people argued that fluoride is bad for you in the same way vaccines are supposedly bad for children.
So the fluoride was removed, and between the years of 2011 and 2017, the percentage of children with tooth decay or requiring urgent dental care increased by a staggering 51 percent.
Then, in 2018, with far less fanfare, that same Windsor City Council voted to reintroduce water fluoridation by a vote of 8-3.
Good news, unless of course you were unfortunate enough to be growing up during the six years that fluoride was absent from the water. In your case, you have more cavities and tooth disease thanks to libertarians. dumbass conspiracy theorists, and do-nothing politicians.
It’s one thing to hold back progress because your conservative values cause you to like things just the way they are. It’s usually done to preserve the dominance of the white patriarchy, but not always. Sometimes conservative values are far less sinister than the ones on display in today’s world.
But it’s entirely another thing when bigots, religious zealots, anti-vaxxers, and other dimwits try to force society back two or three steps.
That’s the worst. Eroding progress is disgraceful and must be stopped at all costs.
Also, go get yourself a Quip toothbrush. It’s fantastic.
