Wednesday, October 23, 2024

I DON'T UNDERSTAND

 The most recent statistic I read was that currently 45% of Canadian citizens have now or already have had cancer of one kind or another. Also while I'm unsure of the percentage of adults who smoke I do know that it is significantly lower than it used to be. Looking around me I see family and friends being diagnosed with various serious cancers none of whom have ever smoked. Now there are other lifestyle choices which can cause cancer such as excessive alcohol consumption and too much exposure to sunshine. Just recently Health Canada has significantly lowered the so called safe number of alcoholic drinks per week from about 15 down to 2 or 3.  Two or Three per week is an incredibly low number and while I would worry that anyone who felt the need for three drinks a day may have an alcohol problem I find three in a week a tiny amount.

So what the heck is going on? Well speaking from my point of view it's obvious. Governments lie to their citizens constantly just about everything. They lie for their own advantage or they lie just to stay in practice for when a really big whopper is required. That time is here. With declining smoking among adults and soaring cancer rates what is happening is that we are being poisoned by the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. Our atmosphere, our rivers and oceans and our farm fields have been inundated with liquid industrial wastes. Some of them may be called herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers but they are toxic never the less. Whether the Lake Erie algal blooms or the ones at the Woolwich Dam just north of Elmira, these blooms produce toxic bacteria from excess nitrogen from the fertilizers ending up in our waterways.

So governments have to do what they do best which is to protect the wealthy, profit takers among us. They do this by lying. Distract citizens with red herrings. Sure smoking is bad for you as is heavy drinking.  However removing them from your life guarantees you absolutely nothing.  All the other toxic exposures will get you eventually anyways. 

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