The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced it will begin the process of pulling prescription fluoride drops and tablets for children off the market. The supplements are usually given to kids at high risk for cavities.
The news release suggested that ingested fluoride can alter a child’s gut microbiome and cause weight gain, thyroid disorders and “possibly decreased IQ.”
I really worry this is a stepping stone. They’ll next try and ban children’s toothpaste with fluoride (lower amounts than adult toothpaste due to the risk of kids swallowing it) and after that they’ll ban or demand much lower levels of fluoride in all toothpaste.
The only place you’ll be able to get it will be from a dentist and it’ll be deemed “medically unnecessary and experimental” so not covered by government insurance for the poor and possibly not by some scummy and especially short-sighted private dental plans (which are only really discount plans and a free teeth cleaning coupon anyways compared to regular non-teeth health insurance which actually covers procedures a lot of the time). The teeth of the poor will rot even more and serve as an even stronger class identifier.
I don’t normally think that removing pawns from the chessboard would meaningful change things but in this one instance I think if RFK got hit by a tidal wave of dewormer and/or dropped over dead from an overdose of the poison he takes this nonsense would stop. Yes they’d still be tearing down medicaid and still push some random woo bullshit but not all of this garbage this fast and this stridently.