A Question on Vaping
I just encountered the odd spectacle of CNN, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC describing a proposed action by President Trump with terms of respect and dignified agreement.
Apparently, the news wishes to convince the unwary that e-cigarettes, which may or may not be responsible for as many as six deaths, and perhaps responsible for some breathing disorders in a vanishingly small percentage of the population, are a menace to the public health more dangerous than Spider-Man.
Six deaths! I read here that, in a Maryland county whose avowed policy is not to cooperate with immigration agents nor to enforce the laws against people in this country illegally, the seventh case in five weeks has been reported of a rape or a child rape.
Logically, if six death linked by an uncertain chain of medical speculation to vaping authorizes such bold and sweeping action as banning all flavored variants nationwide, that seven rapes should authorize the feds to send in the national guard to arrest the country commissioners on charges of treason, and, after a swift military tribunal, hang them all from lamp posts.
I assume the studies were performed by the same diligent and careful scientists who have been warning us for the past thirty years that global warming will destroy the planet in ten years, and, before that, global cooling.
Normally, my suspicions would not be aroused. That is all I voice at the moment, a suspicion, since I have not looked into the matter.
But to have the Fake News applaud their arch-foe Trump is so odd, so very odd, ‘twould be odd indeed for me, or anyone, to take the Fake at face value.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
