..some of the more wild conspiratorial thinking—those who believed that fluoride is a byproduct of the nuclear age, and that the government is storing it inertly in our bones to avoid poisoning the planet.
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So it's toxic in the environment but safe and inert in our bodies? Some people I swear 🫠
I think the really eye-rolling part is _the government doing a damn fucking thing to preserve the environment. _
I would applaud the government if toxic nuclear-fallout fluoride was being stored in the bones of the citizens to prevent it from destroying the more vulnerable critical ecosystem.
We can't even get them to admit that the earth is heating up and the solution merely requires billion and trillion dollar companies to make just a little bit less profit.
Just as long as our bones never end up in the environment, we're golden!
It's always about using the govt money for something the rich assholes that want the govt to help invest in high rise buildings.
One target was our aging fluoride injection system, which had been in use since 1991. It was at the end of its life and needed an overhaul to the tune of $10 million.
10 years of rotten teeth later and of course.
We’re now treating our water again—but it took us four years and more money than we thought. We hoped to spend $10 million but came in closer to $30 million.
It would have been cheaper in the long run to have spent the $10 million fixing the system from the start.
doing preventative maintenance on a planned schedule is always cheaper in the long run. except when these clowns run on "reducing waste and overspending" until they're elected and have the great idea to invest in fixing things for once (at a 3x premium because it's rushed as a result of a catastrophic failure…)
Yeah, people don't seem to learn from history and keep electing politicians that promise some vague short term gains by cutting down everything that's good for us
10 years of rotten teeth later and of course.
Just to be clear, 10 years of rotten teeth for the poor, homeless, and vulnerable. Removing fluoride from the water disproportionately hurts the people who (surprise!) can't afford to see the dentist.
Fuck this lying, duplicitous, sanctimonious, self-serving asshole.
Gian-Carlo Carra lobbied hard to get fluoride out of our water - he called it cost savings, and also said things like "the science isn't clear!" and "We need to be treating dental care from a broader perspective!"
Utter bullshit of course. He had an agenda and shoved it down the throats of a compliant council.
After a decade, he claimed that "a decade's worth of research justified it." In reality, the city carried out his personal ten year research experiment on the poor and vulnerable children of Calgary, and when the results were incontrovertibly against his personal views, he hedged his vote with even more handwaving and bullshit, making it clear that he wasn't happy to vote in favour of it.
Things you will NEVER hear Carra say:
- I was wrong
- I'm sorry
- Let me reconsider my opinion