Healthcare:

General Jack D. Ripper would be proud of our Republican legislature and Governor DeSantis.  They banned fluoride without starting WWIII.  Dr. Strangelove fans will understand the reference. I don’t know how to respond to this particular nonsensical action because it is so irrational.  My wife and I were born before fluoride became a thing and we have spent thousands on teeth maintenance and many hours of agony in dental chairs.  Our children got annual checkups and great reports.  No one wants holes drilled in their teeth.  Who wants the pain or expense of dental work? The evidence of fluoride’s ability to prevent tooth decay is overwhelming.  The first town to put it in their drinking water, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, saw a significant drop in tooth decay in children.  Very high levels of fluoride ingestion can be dangerous but those levels are far higher than anyone is likely to get.  Like so many issues flooding our discussions nowadays, it only takes a breath of unsupported anecdotal data to set off a firestorm of responses.  Science can slow that down.  We should trust it.