04-19-2022, 08:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-20-2022, 02:23 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
It’s only because of the political winds… not because the “science has changed”
Yes, because this country bases it's best health care decisions upon majority rule:
Cigarrettes - I remember when bars were so thick with smoke you could barely see the back of the room. When you went home your clothes stunk to high heaven. Yoiu breathed that bad air all night. Finally restaurants provided smoking sections because a magic barrier was created with the signs that said SMOKING and NO SMOKING. Then after much kicking and screaming and probably some actual science, government eventually banned smoking indoors entirely. The smokers were never right, even when they were a majority.
Obesity - doctors try and get their overweight patients to lose weight because it's better for their health. But the fatheads like to eat so eventually, what's the point? Just let everyone else contribute higher insurance rates to pay for the diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure. But hey, FREEDOM!
ADDED FOR SPECIFICALLY HAWAII RELATED COMMENT:
The Surgeon General announced smoking was bad for our health in 1964, a few years after Hawaii became a state. Fast slow forward over 40 years later when Hawaii politicians, quick on the draw to restrict our freedoms banned smoking for indoor public spaces in 2006. Hawaii County banned smoking in outdoor recreation areas, parks & beaches 2 years later. Because people here always recognize the dangers right in front of them, all around them, or care if it adversely affects their friends, neighbors, co-workers, even their own keiki.
Yes, because this country bases it's best health care decisions upon majority rule:
Cigarrettes - I remember when bars were so thick with smoke you could barely see the back of the room. When you went home your clothes stunk to high heaven. Yoiu breathed that bad air all night. Finally restaurants provided smoking sections because a magic barrier was created with the signs that said SMOKING and NO SMOKING. Then after much kicking and screaming and probably some actual science, government eventually banned smoking indoors entirely. The smokers were never right, even when they were a majority.
Obesity - doctors try and get their overweight patients to lose weight because it's better for their health. But the fatheads like to eat so eventually, what's the point? Just let everyone else contribute higher insurance rates to pay for the diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure. But hey, FREEDOM!
ADDED FOR SPECIFICALLY HAWAII RELATED COMMENT:
The Surgeon General announced smoking was bad for our health in 1964, a few years after Hawaii became a state. Fast slow forward over 40 years later when Hawaii politicians, quick on the draw to restrict our freedoms banned smoking for indoor public spaces in 2006. Hawaii County banned smoking in outdoor recreation areas, parks & beaches 2 years later. Because people here always recognize the dangers right in front of them, all around them, or care if it adversely affects their friends, neighbors, co-workers, even their own keiki.