Take the FDA. They block all sorts of things that are quite legal in other countries. I was trying to get some kind of weight loss supplement that apparently actually works, and they sell it in Canada, but not here, because some jackasses abused it. You can abuse COFFEE if you are determined.
For that matter, they DON’T block things like genetically modified foods that are at least labeled in other countries. And for God’s sake, our government continues to subsidize the manufacture of high fructose corn syrup, which has NEGATIVE nutritional value. Who helps put cheap cokes in the hands of the poor? Uncle Sam, that’s who.
Take ordering contacts on-line. If my prescription hasn’t changed in 25 years, who is hurt if I go three or four years without an exam? The eye doctors. They lose money. They no doubt argued “safety” and in this country if you say fucking safety all the soccer moms circle their wagons, and the soccer dads say “are you sure it is safe now?” You can smell the fear.
Fuck safety. Life is either an adventure, or it is a niggling little prance in a small circle with boring people who do nothing, learn nothing, and are not overly missed when they leave this world because they didn’t really contribute anything.
Americans, particularly, are obsessed with safety. I don’t know why. Perhaps it is our litigiousness.
Edit: tetanus shots. That was another thing. There are only about 30 cases of tetanus contracted a year in America, mostly in the pork industry. The tetanus bacteria live in soil contaminated with fecal matter, which is to say virtually nothing in a city or the suburbs is even remotely likely to have it on it.
I tried to research how many people die from reactions related to vaccinations each year, but Google, Bing and Yahoo don’t want to tell me.
This is another thing: we think we have access through search engines to everything we need to know. Google for sure, and likely the others, are quite capable of tweaking the searches any way they want, and whatever they want hidden, will not be found except by profound persistence.
Edit: thank god for Alex Jones. Google plus Alex Jones got me this: http://www.infowars.com/jimmy-kimmels-ignorant-vaccine-doctors/
Point 1: there is no reliable reporting system for vaccinations, so no one can claim it is safe using sound empirical evidence. Doctors are at their own discretion to report reactions, and they can expect to be sued if they are found culpable. No one–NO ONE–can base their opinions on responsibly gathered statistics.
Point 2: the same professionals we are supposed to literally trust with our lives disappoint about a quarter of a million people EVERY YEAR. People die due to fuck-ups.