Rutland resident Jack Crowther has been a longtime critic.
“You’re putting a drug, a medicine, in our water to treat tooth decay without the informed consent of the people,” Crowther said.
“Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?” 
“THEY’RE PUTTING MEDICINE IN THE WATER!” 
Also related, a Richmond, VT waterworks employee secretly lowered fluoride levels in the town’s drinking supply for a decade.
EDIT: I should’ve updated this a month ago, but the town voted to keep fluoride.
too bad we don’t know how much water people drink & can’t calibrate relative to that. one of life’s great mysteries
great point, we don’t know when people are using water in a way that necessitates chlorination, we should just send everyone untreated water & they can treat it at their discretion when it’s really necessary. stop the waste!
Some people are sweating in the sun and drinking lots of water to replace it; some people are hydrating almost exclusively with bottled sparkling water. There is actually great variation among how much tap water people drink. You know how some people are getting iodine deficiency even though we supplement table salt, because they’re using sea salt for all their home cooking?
Not to say that fluoridated water isn’t better than nothing. But I don’t see how it can give everyone a perfect dose.
you don’t need a perfect dose, just less than would give people fluorosis, which is a fucking lot–people usually get it from eating toothpaste which has a concentration 1.000 times that of the recommended amount in water
And what do people who do get fluorosis do. Not drink water ever? Only bathe and drink distilled water from the store?
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yeah fluorosis is a medical condition, someone might need to do special things during treatment, what a wild proposition. but you don’t absorb fluoride through skin so the bathing will be fine lol
How did they get fluorosis in the first place? It’s pretty hard to get
Industrial exposure. If you drink a shit ton of instant tea packets at once you can also get it. Some places have naturally high fluoride levels and in those places fluorosis is a legitimate public health issue.
How many cases do you see per year vs cases of tooth decay?
I’d rather lose every single one of my teeth than get fluorosis.
Also, wut? You can recover from fluorosis, losing all your teeth is permanent. You’re weird.
One is realistic and the other isn’t.
You’re in a forum filled with Socialists and Communists. We support the greater good and government services that help everyone. This is one of those services.
I don’t care that five people have some rare condition that makes it hard for them to drink tap water if the tap water being treated is helping literally hundreds of millions of kids have healthy teeth! We can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good!
I’m also not going to call for banning trains just because some kid is in therapy for locomophobia.
Pick a better hill to die on.
The amount of fluoride it requires to do any damage is astronomically high and it being in water means you will piss it out too fast for it to be an issue. So you’re safe from too high of a dose. If you’re not eating ionized salt and also are somehow not getting any dietary iodine elsewhere, that’s weird and you can tske supplements, same with fluoride. If you don’t drink tap water it means you’re paying for your water which means you brush your teeth often anyway.
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Everyone knows that every single person drinks exactly the same amount of tap water and get the exact environmental exposure of Fluoride and also have the exact same body mass.
Debate pervert harder.
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Don’t have to cause I have treated water
You’ve never been homeless before.
I just live in a city and don’t drink from puddles.
Being homeless means you’re an actual medieval peasant and drink water with worms in it cause it’s fun or something
So nonsensical
You carry a bindle and drink from rain barrels
@civility