The Phony Vaping Crisis: An Orwellian Hoax
The left is doing its best to dispel the narrative that the impeachment hearings against Trump are being engineered by a "deep state" of federal bureaucrats determined to undermine the sitting President at all costs because of the inherent threat he poses to them. Such rhetoric is a sign of the times given the country's deep political and cultural polarization, but those who want to discredit this talking point in defense of Trump are doing themselves no favors when they prove the skeptics' points about the structural dishonesty of "the elites" on other matters. And on no present matter are the professional stewards of the public sector conspiring to con the public more brazenly than with the phony hysteria about nicotine vaping.
Nicotine vaping has been around for more than a decade. Its usage has steadily increased over that decade, and has done so without any reported health emergencies beyond exploding lithium batteries. Yet at some point late in the summer of 2019, a surge of mostly young people started being hospitalized with symptoms we were assured was the result of vaping. Three months later and the hospitalization count has reached the tens of thousands while deaths number in the dozens. Huh? So after 10 years of widespread vaping, suddenly and all at once emergency rooms all over the country are getting filled up with vapers? That doesn't really add up does it?
No. It doesn't add up. Because it's a manipulation of the story being passed along by monstrously cynical government health agencies with a preexisting bias against vaping, and is being regurgitated by a compliant media playing along with a health hoax of Orwellian proportions, the likes of which I don't ever recall seeing before in my 42 years. Almost right away, the "fine print" of the hyperbolic news stories reporting vaping hospitalizations suggested that "most" of the vaping-related illnesses seemed to be coming from vapers who partook in a black market THC product. As the body count spiked, it became blatantly obvious that ALL of the hospitalizations were the result of black market THC consumption, yet for months the CDC, the media, and elected officials who are either clueless or unthinkably shameless conflated commercially available nicotine vaping products with the black market cartridges. The simple administering of urine tests of the hospitalized patients by the CDC would have detected the black market THC and quickly dismissed the role of nicotine vape products in the hospitalizations, but the CDC refused to do that and pretended for months that it was a mystery even with lives on the line. Even now, they're dancing around their "official findings" which effectively fully exonerated nicotine vaping in playing a role in the hospitalizations.
https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/09/cdcs-failure-to-demand-urine-thc.html
Why the subterfuge? It's all politics, coordinated by what looks quite a bit like a health and wellness deep state who has chosen to not let a good crisis go to waste, playing games with people's lives to fit their all-or-nothing moral panic about nicotine with the endgame of prohibition. And their efforts are bearing fruit with Massachusetts stupidly taking the national lead and going full-scale Carrie Nation by outlawing flavored nicotine vaping and, as an extension of the insincerity in pretending that this is all about vaping-related hospitalizations, have outlawed menthol cigarettes too. The bans affect hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents and, if enacted nationally as many are wont to do, would turn scores of millions of Americans into criminals.
Ironically, many of the same people who have rightfully identified the criminal justice repercussions of our long-standing national prohibition against marijuana are taking the lead in the colossally ill-advised movement to impose those same criminal justice repercussions on nicotine-based products whose consumer base exceeds that of marijuana users by orders of magnitude. Those who wish to play God with the laws of supply and demand will discover the same consequences for prohibition against popular nicotine products as they did with alcohol a century ago and marijuana for the last half century. Nonviolent offenders will end up in prison over this--thousands of them--and there will be far more people like Eric Garner who die violently in the street as nicotine prohibitionism expands.
Back to nicotine vaping specifically, while it may be too early to know the long-term consequences of heavy, long-time usage of nicotine vapor products, studies have concluded they're 95% safer than smoking analog cigarettes. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review And they're clearly 100% safer than vaping something that you purchase in a black market cartridge. The CDC's three-card monte game of conflating nicotine vaping with black market THC has already increased sales of analog cigarettes by people who have been convinced nothing is more dangerous than nicotine vaping after months of deceptively hysterical headlines. https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/people-are-smoking-cigarettes-again-amid-vaping-related-panic/ If the bans proliferate for commercial nicotine products that are not putting people in the hospital, it will almost certainly result in additional business for the same black market vendors whose product is putting people in the hospital, needlessly inflating rather than contracting the death toll related to vaping.
The health and wellness deep state can't possibly be so obtuse that they don't realize this, so what are they up to here? Is the endless hair-on-fire propaganda an effort to goose their agencies' budgets by manufacturing this phony emergency? Do they want people to go back to cigarettes because it makes for an easier-to-collect stream of blood revenue for government? Or is it just the tunnelvision obsessiveness of ideologues who couldn't care less who or what gets destroyed in their quest for puritanism?
Whatever the answer is, everybody that's paying attention to this story knows they're being lied to by the government and the media. They're counting on most people not paying much attention, because any deductive reasoning applied by the masses would lead to a wholesale discrediting of the narrative we've been force-fed for the last three months. But even if it's only 10% of the population that realizes the magnitude of this Orwellian hoax about vaping, 10% is a pretty big chunk of the country to know they're being unequivocally conned, and it won't be entirely along party lines. And it's exactly the sort of thing that makes it harder for people to trust when the same government officials and media comes together to tell us the President of the United States committed high crimes and misdemeanors. If they expect to believed on the big stuff, perhaps they shouldn't so brazenly lie about the small stuff.
Nicotine vaping has been around for more than a decade. Its usage has steadily increased over that decade, and has done so without any reported health emergencies beyond exploding lithium batteries. Yet at some point late in the summer of 2019, a surge of mostly young people started being hospitalized with symptoms we were assured was the result of vaping. Three months later and the hospitalization count has reached the tens of thousands while deaths number in the dozens. Huh? So after 10 years of widespread vaping, suddenly and all at once emergency rooms all over the country are getting filled up with vapers? That doesn't really add up does it?
No. It doesn't add up. Because it's a manipulation of the story being passed along by monstrously cynical government health agencies with a preexisting bias against vaping, and is being regurgitated by a compliant media playing along with a health hoax of Orwellian proportions, the likes of which I don't ever recall seeing before in my 42 years. Almost right away, the "fine print" of the hyperbolic news stories reporting vaping hospitalizations suggested that "most" of the vaping-related illnesses seemed to be coming from vapers who partook in a black market THC product. As the body count spiked, it became blatantly obvious that ALL of the hospitalizations were the result of black market THC consumption, yet for months the CDC, the media, and elected officials who are either clueless or unthinkably shameless conflated commercially available nicotine vaping products with the black market cartridges. The simple administering of urine tests of the hospitalized patients by the CDC would have detected the black market THC and quickly dismissed the role of nicotine vape products in the hospitalizations, but the CDC refused to do that and pretended for months that it was a mystery even with lives on the line. Even now, they're dancing around their "official findings" which effectively fully exonerated nicotine vaping in playing a role in the hospitalizations.
https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/09/cdcs-failure-to-demand-urine-thc.html
Why the subterfuge? It's all politics, coordinated by what looks quite a bit like a health and wellness deep state who has chosen to not let a good crisis go to waste, playing games with people's lives to fit their all-or-nothing moral panic about nicotine with the endgame of prohibition. And their efforts are bearing fruit with Massachusetts stupidly taking the national lead and going full-scale Carrie Nation by outlawing flavored nicotine vaping and, as an extension of the insincerity in pretending that this is all about vaping-related hospitalizations, have outlawed menthol cigarettes too. The bans affect hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents and, if enacted nationally as many are wont to do, would turn scores of millions of Americans into criminals.
Ironically, many of the same people who have rightfully identified the criminal justice repercussions of our long-standing national prohibition against marijuana are taking the lead in the colossally ill-advised movement to impose those same criminal justice repercussions on nicotine-based products whose consumer base exceeds that of marijuana users by orders of magnitude. Those who wish to play God with the laws of supply and demand will discover the same consequences for prohibition against popular nicotine products as they did with alcohol a century ago and marijuana for the last half century. Nonviolent offenders will end up in prison over this--thousands of them--and there will be far more people like Eric Garner who die violently in the street as nicotine prohibitionism expands.
Back to nicotine vaping specifically, while it may be too early to know the long-term consequences of heavy, long-time usage of nicotine vapor products, studies have concluded they're 95% safer than smoking analog cigarettes. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review And they're clearly 100% safer than vaping something that you purchase in a black market cartridge. The CDC's three-card monte game of conflating nicotine vaping with black market THC has already increased sales of analog cigarettes by people who have been convinced nothing is more dangerous than nicotine vaping after months of deceptively hysterical headlines. https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/people-are-smoking-cigarettes-again-amid-vaping-related-panic/ If the bans proliferate for commercial nicotine products that are not putting people in the hospital, it will almost certainly result in additional business for the same black market vendors whose product is putting people in the hospital, needlessly inflating rather than contracting the death toll related to vaping.
The health and wellness deep state can't possibly be so obtuse that they don't realize this, so what are they up to here? Is the endless hair-on-fire propaganda an effort to goose their agencies' budgets by manufacturing this phony emergency? Do they want people to go back to cigarettes because it makes for an easier-to-collect stream of blood revenue for government? Or is it just the tunnelvision obsessiveness of ideologues who couldn't care less who or what gets destroyed in their quest for puritanism?
Whatever the answer is, everybody that's paying attention to this story knows they're being lied to by the government and the media. They're counting on most people not paying much attention, because any deductive reasoning applied by the masses would lead to a wholesale discrediting of the narrative we've been force-fed for the last three months. But even if it's only 10% of the population that realizes the magnitude of this Orwellian hoax about vaping, 10% is a pretty big chunk of the country to know they're being unequivocally conned, and it won't be entirely along party lines. And it's exactly the sort of thing that makes it harder for people to trust when the same government officials and media comes together to tell us the President of the United States committed high crimes and misdemeanors. If they expect to believed on the big stuff, perhaps they shouldn't so brazenly lie about the small stuff.
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